News From A Colorful Perspective
Many have called the War on Terror the “War of Terror” because it has taken the lives of more than half a million civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is also having alarming health effects on U.S. troops. Veterans and troops that have seen combat in these wars are…
In a rare move, military leaders were actually punished for sexual assault and drinking in their Navy SEAL Team 7 unit while deployed in Iraq–but they will stay in the military. “Commander, Navy Special Warfare Command Read Adm. Collin Green relieved the three senior leaders of SEAL Team Seven from…
The biggest budget cuts so far to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border are on the horizon. The border wall will have a total of $3.6 billion funneled from military projects like schools, target ranges and maintenance facilities, The Associated Press reports. $1.1 billion in cuts would directly affect…
Sgt. Waverly Woodson Jr., also known as “Woody,” was a 21-year-old medic in an all-Black brigade during World War II when he and other Black soldiers were the first to step on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. The young soldier had been injured by shrapnel that tore through his…
Sexual assault in the military has increased dramatically from 2016 to 2018, in spite of efforts to curb it. According to a study by the Department of Defense’s 2018 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, there has been a 38 percent increase in assaults over the last two…
Major General Marcelite Jordan Harris, the first Black woman to serve as a major general in the U.S. military, was laid to rest with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 7, alongside her husband, Lt. Col. Maurice Harris, USAF (Ret.). Harris died unexpectedly on Sept. 7, 2018,…
UPDATE: Dec. 26, 2018 at 4:08 p.m. In a visit that came hours after NBC News reported that President Trump was the first president since 2002 that did not visit wounded warriors or troops during Christmastime, Trump and First Lady Melania Trump met with troops stationed in Iraq, traveling there…
Light, steady rain resulted in President Trump cancelling plans to attend a commemoration in France on Saturday to honor U.S. soldiers killed during World War I. Trump came to France to take part in ceremonies marking the end of the war — 100 years ago. He would have taken a…
Since the preseason opener for the Miami Dolphins, where three players, Albert Wilson, Kenny Stills, and Robert Quinn, kneeled/raised fists during the national anthem, the protests have been met with criticism from local police. The Broward County PBA and the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association urged its members on…
In December 1942, a year after the U.S. had joined World War II, Millie Dunn Veasey saw posters urging women to join the U.S. Army, but they all featured white women in uniform. “I thought to myself that if those white women can do it, so can I,” Veasey told…
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