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Soldiers build nuke-detecting backpack
The backpack now allows soldiers to detect and analyze nuclear sites without an eight-hour cooldown period.
By Todd South
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Panel acquits US airman of 2022 insider attack in Syria
A panel of three enlisted troops and five officers deliberated for six hours before issuing their verdict.
After munition worker deaths, Army floats $16 billion plan to modernize production
U.S. Army officials told lawmakers Tuesday they are seeking a new 15-year, $16 billion strategy to modernize and automate the military’s aging munitions plants following nearly a dozen worker deaths and injuries over recent years.
By Joe Gould
After deaths at ammo plants, lawmakers to quiz US Army leaders on modernizing production
A planned House hearing comes in the wake of a series of explosions and fires that have killed and injured nearly a dozen workers at munition plants in recent years and led to a previously unreported investigation by the House Armed Services Committee.
By Joe Gould
FBI: ‘Full and complete cooperation’ from Saudi colleagues of slain Pensacola gunman
Investigator said the murderer “legally and lawfully” obtained his weapon — a Glock Model 45 9mm — in Florida.
By Carl Prine
Dozens sue company for selling corpses to Army for blast testing
The Army was mislead by the company to believe that the donors had consented to the bodies’ use in blast tests.
By Kyle Rempfer
Toxic chemical used in hand grenades contaminates drinking water near Fort Jackson, data shows
Pollution levels of the cancer-causing chemical were shown to be higher than federal safety standards.
Fort Bragg gate shut down after man attempted to gain access, explosives detected
An electronic device gave MPs a “cursory positive” indication that there could be explosives in the vehicle.
By Kyle Rempfer
US-backed Kurdish fighters clear explosives in village retaken from ISIS
U.S.-backed Syrian fighters cleared explosives in the last area retaken from the Islamic State group on Sunday and arrested a number of militants hiding in tunnels, a day after declaring military victory and the end of the extremists’ self-styled caliphate.
5 get prison after 2012 military munition blast in Louisiana
A federal judge on Thursday ordered $34.8 million in restitution from the owner of a company that committed what a prosecutor calls the nation’s worst-ever dumping of military explosives — a case stemming from a huge 2012 munitions blast. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Foote also ordered David Alan Smith to spend 4 years and 7 months in prison.
Koreas begin removing land mines from the DMZ to ease military tensions
The U.S. and the Koreas have placed an estimated 2 million mines along the border.
Army EOD soldiers will soon get a whole new kit — and new robots
Advanced payloads for new robots will give EOD techs better ways to identify and neutralize threats.
By Todd South