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Military Times’ 10 best Vietnam War movies

In honor of Vietnam War Veterans Day, we put together a top-10 list of films — excluding documentaries — we consider the best about the Vietnam War.

13 months ago

Pentagon’s high-level group to aid Ukraine is rooted in Iraq and Afghanistan fight

The Pentagon has modeled a new high-level team to rush military aid to Ukraine after the group it used to rush supplies to troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, according to a memo obtained by Defense News and sources familiar with the matter.

24 months ago

Trump pardons former Rep. Duncan Hunter and four Iraq war vets convicted in Blackwater shooting

The former Blackwater employees were sent to prison for their role in a controversial 2007 attack in Baghdad which left 14 people dead.

By Leo Shane III

3 years ago

Biden landing team for Pentagon announced

Fifteen of the 23 individuals named on the landing team for the Pentagon are women

By Aaron Mehta

3 years ago

Army vet steps down from congressional committees amid voter fraud charges

Rep. Steve Watkins, R-Kansas, will depart the House Veterans' Affairs Committee while he fights the charges.

By Leo Shane III

4 years ago

Former Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Marine veteran, gets 11 months in prison

Former California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter was sentenced Tuesday to 11 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing campaign funds and spending the money on everything from outings with friends to his daughter’s birthday party.

4 years ago

Explainer: Russia’s cabinet quit and it’s all part of Putin’s plan

A Kremlin watcher dishes on what happened and what it means to the US.

By Regina Smyth, Indiana University

4 years ago

Congress wrestles with deterring China ― beyond nukes

The U.S. must form a new and creative strategy to deter China using conventional means, experts told Congress.

4 years ago

Marine vet Duncan Hunter resigns from Congress after corruption conviction

Republican U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter submitted his resignation Tuesday, one month after pleading guilty to a corruption charge, leaving vacant one of the GOP's few remaining House seats in heavily Democratic California.

4 years ago

Prosecutor seeking 1 year in prison for Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Marine vet, in corruption case

California Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single charge of conspiring with his wife to use at least $150,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses under a plea deal that a former federal prosecutor called “great” for the congressman who had faced 60 counts.

4 years ago

Marine veteran Congressman Duncan Hunter says he will plead guilty to corruption charges

U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter plans to plead guilty on Tuesday to the misuse of campaign funds and has indicated he will leave Congress.

4 years ago

Transcript of Army officer’s Ukraine testimony against Trump released

In closed-door transcripts released by House impeachment investigators on Friday, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an Army officer assigned to the National Security Council, was one of two White House officials who detailed an extraordinary series of meetings and interactions before and after a July phone call in which Trump asked new Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate political rival Joe Biden and Ukraine’s role in the 2016 U.S. election. At the same time, the U.S. was withholding military aid to the country.

4 years ago