First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, who was 25, had been deployed to an air base in Jordan when enemy missiles and drones lit up the sky. He is among the 18 Americans who have died since the war began.
Soliders were 9 times more likely to die by suicide than in combat
American service members took part in the Royal Danish Flyver March, a 12.5-mile military test of endurance.
Two 2nd Infantry Division soldiers have been indicted in connection with a $10 million methamphetamine smuggling case involving the U.S. military postal service, officials said Wednesday.
The Iranian strikes that killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan show how quickly Iran’s war-fighting skills have evolved, as the Pentagon runs low on interceptors.
Federal courts have held Iran liable for killing and maiming U.S. soldiers in Iraq with sophisticated weapons supplied through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, yet Tehran has never paid a dime, and the families who lost everything say Washington has failed them too. Nearly two decades before the current military confrontation with Iran, a weapon […] The post Iran's war on American troops started decades ago — and the families still waiting for justice prove it appeared first on American Almanac .
Federal courts have held Iran liable for killing and maiming U.S. soldiers in Iraq with sophisticated weapons supplied through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, yet Tehran has never paid a dime, and the families who lost everything say Washington has failed them too. Nearly two decades before the current military confrontation with Iran, a weapon known as an explosively formed penetrator tore through a U.S. Army armored Humvee on a Baghdad road called Route Pluto. The date was May 3, 2005. Staff Sgt. William Brooks died. Sgt. Robert Bartlett, the driver, survived, barely. Two other soldiers in the vehicle were wounded. The weapon that did it was not a crude roadside bomb cobbled together by insurgents. It was a precision-engineered…Open
Fires from live-fire training at a sprawling U.S. Army base in Germany burned hundreds of acres and required helicopters to bring them under control.
Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton was killed in recent days, one of 18 U.S. soldiers who have lost their lives since the beginning of the war in Iran.
Feehan was one of four U.S. service members killed during an enemy attack at an airbase in Jordan.
The remains of four U.S. soldiers killed in the Middle East arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for a dignified transfer.