Military and First Responders

Brian Seibert sent a message around 7 p.m. Sunday saying he was headed down after summiting Mount Morgan. The 53-year-old climber never returned. Search teams later found he had plunged off a cliff ledge near the base of Grand Central Couloir on the 13,000-foot California peak. His body was recovered more than 72 hours after […]

President Donald Trump has approved death by U.S. Army firing squad for Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army officer who opened fire on unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood and left 13 dead. Fox News reported that Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced the decision after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recommended the method, nearly 17 years […]

The Pentagon is sending more than 4,000 Marines and sailors aboard three warships toward the Middle East as the American naval presence grows in the U.S. Central Command theater. The Hill reported the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group left San Diego on Monday carrying the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The ships are the USS Makin […]

The U.S. Navy finished fiscal 2026 with 45,112 new sailors, clearing its enlistment target of 45,000 and locking in a third straight year of meeting accession goals. Military Times reported the service reached the initial 45,000 mark three months early in July, then kept adding personnel through the end of the fiscal period. Chief of […]

Denton Police Chief George William Bacorn Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene Friday morning after a delivery truck crossed the center double yellow line and struck his vehicle on a road near Easton, Maryland. The crash unfolded shortly before 11:30 a.m. Bacorn, 62, was driving a Chevrolet Tahoe eastbound behind a Chevrolet Silverado when […]

A Texas Air National Guard pilot punched out of an F-16 Fighting Falcon over rural northern Michigan on September 17 after a suspected bird strike killed the jet’s engine, sending the aircraft into a fiery crash that rattled homes and triggered a one-mile evacuation order. The pilot survived, landing by parachute and reaching a local […]

Sean Michael Lee spent twenty years as a paratrooper, deployed repeatedly to Iraq and Afghanistan, helped evacuate thousands from Kabul, played a direct role in extracting a gravely wounded Fox News correspondent from a war zone near Kyiv, and then, when the uniform came off, kept going. He died Sunday of esophageal cancer attributed to […]

President Trump signed the Hershel “Woody” Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act on Thursday at the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, authorizing a future monument to Medal of Honor recipients on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The ceremony brought together more than a dozen living recipients of the nation’s […]

A Greek air force F-4 Phantom fighter jet slammed into the ground during a low-altitude maneuver at an annual air show Saturday, killing both pilots aboard as thousands of spectators watched in horror from Tanagra Air Force Base north of Athens. The twin-seat jet had been airborne fewer than three minutes, one eyewitness told ERT, […]

The Trump administration has filed an urgent appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking permission to discharge 29 transgender military service members, a move that would clear one of the last legal obstacles to the president’s policy barring individuals with gender dysphoria from serving in the armed forces. Solicitor General John Sauer called the lower […]