Category: Military Readiness

Another woman has been killed in Iraq. Carrie French Carrie served as a Specialist in the National Guard’s 145th Support Battalion, which was attached to the 116th Brigade Combat Team. She was killed by...

Army Chief of Staff, General Schoomaker, Peter, J., has unveiled the design of the new Combat Action Badge, according to Military.com. It is a bayonet and hand grenade on a wreath. The real significance...

In the 17th century women were frequent visitors to warships to comfort the crew. And these relationships produced children, some legitimate, some not. The fathers were sometimes known, sometimes not. Babies on board were...

IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 19, 2005 DoD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Sam W. Huff, 18, of Tucson, Ariz.,...

Elaine Donnelly Center for Military Readiness Today, the House of Representatives dropped a provision in the Defense spending bill that would have codified the military regulations which prohibit assigning women to units with a...

To all of you serving our country in the military today — and your families — we salute you! We thank you. We pray for you. And to Josh, Michael, and Will, in particular...

Why worry about women in combat? Why not just let the Pentagon go ahead with boiling the frog? After all, proponents argue, it is an all-volunteer army now. Let me highlight one reason, among...

We’ve been following the Pentagon’s “boiled frog” strategy related to women in combat. . . the plan has been to simply go ahead and put women into combat, present it to the American people...