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The National Hockey League expands into Las Vegas, Nevada, for the 2017-2018 season and with their newest franchise the Vegas Golden Knights. The new team name, celebrated by most, brought a voice of displeasure from the ranks of the U.S. Army.

47-year-old Army veteran Ernest Walker went to a Chili’s in Cedar Hill, Texas, on Veterans Day to take advantage of the restaurant’s offer of a free meal, only to have his to-go box snatched away by a manager in a viral-video incident.

Fox News host Todd Starnes is outraged after an Army band said they couldn’t perform at his Fox Radio Christmas Show because the event is religious, the Daily Mail reports.

Two U.S. soldiers have been charged in connection with a human smuggling case. The soldiers have been accused of trying to drive illegal immigrants through U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints north of the Texas Border.

A county judge in Idaho removed a disabled U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan from a courtroom for wearing his military uniform.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Charles Kettles will be awarded the Medal of Honor on July 18 for saving the lives of 40 soldiers and four members of his own unit while serving as a helicopter pilot during a Vietnam War ambush.

President Barack Obama is forcing the Pentagon to repeal its ban on transgender service members, meaning U.S. soldiers will soon be serving under the command of cross-dressing soldiers.

The U.S. Ambassador to Qatar has apologized, on Twitter and in person, for a video that showed two American soldiers laughing, with the Qatari flag in the background.

“We have to do now restore the founding principles of this nation … We’ve got to get back to understanding that the Constitution is the bedrock of who we are,” retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin told Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, as Boyle guest-hosted that show on SiriusXM Patriot channel 125 this weekend.

According to the Army Times, “nearly 2,600 soldiers departed active service in March without being replaced, an action that plunges manning to its lowest level since before World War II.”

A controversial photo of female African-American cadets at West Point raising their fists in what appears to be a “black power” salute has prompted an investigation by school officials, as it may have violated the military’s policy against political expression.

Two former U.S. Army soldiers based out of Fort Hood have been sent to prison for their role in a human smuggling operation where they had been using their uniform to get around immigration checkpoints.

Army Captain Nathan Michael Smith, 28, has filed suit against President Obama in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, contending that the President lacks legal authority for his war against the Islamic State.

The U.S. Army has decided not to discharge a decorated Green Beret for striking a local Afghan police commander accused of repeatedly raping a 12-year-old boy, Fox News has learned.

The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals postponed legal proceedings in the desertion case against Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl over defense access to 300,000 pages of classified documents held by the government.

A 21-year-old man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) pleaded guilty to attempting to carry out a suicide car bombing on the Fort Riley Army base in Manhattan, Kansas, with what he believed to be 1,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, announced the Department of Justice (DOJ).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Russian “aggression” in Europe and now the Middle East is a “new reality” for the United States that is “here to stay,” said U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, accused of deserting his post in Afghanistan back in 2009, would have been executed in the past for being a “no-good traitor,” says Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.

The American command in Afghanistan has told U.S. service members to ignore child rape by Afghan soldiers and police officers, reports The New York Times (NYT).

Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, who led the investigation into Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s disappearance from his post in Afghanistan in 2009, says he does not think the accused deserter will go to jail, adding that a prison sentence would be “inappropriate.”

The United States has deployed a force of 160 American Army soldiers in an effort to seize back Ramadi from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq, according to Arab media.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who has been accused by the U.S. Army and soldiers who served with him of abandoning his outpost in Afghanistan back in 2009, has been charged with “misbehavior before the enemy” in addition to desertion.

Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland, a decorated Green Beret fighting to stay in the military, earned the respect and admiration of a police chief in Afghanistan for shoving a local police commander into the ground who allegedly laughed about raping a 12-year-old boy, Breitbart News has learned.

Meanwhile, Martland’s supporters believe

Four U.S. Army soldiers previously stationed at Fort Hood have been convicted for their roles in smuggling illegal immigrants past U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints north of the Texas border with Mexico.

Firefighters across the Western United States will receive help from the U.S. Army to fight wildfires.

This summer, United States Army engineers have spread out across Eastern Europe to help American allies build roads and training facilities to reassure them of U.S. commitment to the region.

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, in an exclusive interview with Fox News weeks away from his retirement, said the United States military could have prevented the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) group.

A video has been released which appears to show New Jersey’s Essex County Democrat Committee chairman Leroy Jones punching a 75-year-old blind Army veteran in the face.

Pfc. Monterrious T. Daniel, a 19-year-old Fort Carson soldier, died in a non-combat related incident in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, while supporting the U.S.-led mission against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, according to the Pentagon.

Congressman Louie Gohmert, of the 1st Texas Congressional District, has weighed in on the upcoming military training exercise, Jade Helm 15. In a statement sent to Breitbart Texas, the six-term Republican says that his office “has been inundated with calls” and that people are “concerned that the U.S. Army is preparing for modern-day martial law.”

Nearly 500 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq and other locations in the Middle East to support operations against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), according to the Pentagon.

Attorneys for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl released statement and a thirteen page letter that fails to offer any explanation as to why the soldier left his base in a combat zone. The letter offers many arguments as to why he should be charged with the lessor offense of being on an unauthorized absence (UA) but nothing about his motivations for leaving.

U.S. Army soldiers will soon embark on a 1,100-mile convoy through six European countries near Russia to show support for allies in the region, according to Army officials.

A 20-year-old man who planned to murder the president and attack the U.S. Capitol with pipe bombs confessed he made the plans in sympathy with ISIS. In an interview from jail, he warned that the group has followers in every state and claimed additional attacks are on the way.

(Reuters) – The U.S. military estimates around 12,000 Russian soldiers are supporting pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine, U.S. Army Europe Commander Ben Hodges said on Tuesday.

A former U.S. Army sergeant accused of assembling an international team of military servicemembers with sniper training to provide surveillance and security, as well as carry out contract killings for a Colombian drug cartel pleaded guilty in New York federal court.