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LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has announced her new redistricting team. Former state senator, Doyle Webb, joins Rutledge’s senior staff as the redistricting director. Webb will lead the redistricting team made up of former state representatives Andy Davis and Col. Douglas House, U.S. Army, retired, who have been contracted as consultants. “I am ecstatic to welcome Doyle Webb, Doug House and Andy Davis to my team to help with this important task of redrawing state...

Copy to Clipboard Virginia National Guard Cpl. Jacob Fracker (L), Army veteran Thomas Robertson (Department of Justice) Two police officers charged for their respective roles in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol reportedly have military backgrounds. According to Military.com, one of the officers is still serving as a corporal in the National Guard. Thomas Robertson, an army vet, and Jacob Fracker, a Virginia National Guard infantryman and former marine, were arrested in Virginia on Wednesday...

By CAITLIN M. KENNEY | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 6, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WASHINGTON — An active-duty soldier in Virginia is the 15th service member to die from the coronavirus, the Pentagon announced Wednesday, almost a month after another soldier in Germany died from the disea...

Female Soldier, 38, Is 3rd Active-Duty Service Member to Die of COVID-19 The U.S. flag sits atop a case containing remains on March 31, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jamarius Fortson) 7 Jan 2021 An Army soldier has become the third active-duty U.S. service member to die from COVID-19. Sgt. 1st Class Lisa Maria Soto, 38, an instructor with Alpha Company, 244th Quartermaster Battalion, at Fort Lee, Virginia, died Jan. 2 at a hospital in Hopewell, Virginia, not far from the base. A 20-year ...

A Fort Lee instructor is the 15th service member, 2nd active-duty soldier, to die from COVID-19 A 15th service member has died from COVID-19. (Paul Sancya/AP) Sgt. 1st Class Lisa Maria Soto, 38, died Saturday at a civilian hospital near post, Fort Lee spokesman Jefferson Wolfe said. “Soto served honorably in the Army for more than 20 years, beginning as an armorer at the 95th Military Police Battalion from 2001 to 2004 in Mannheim, Germany,” Wolfe said, with a deployment to Iraq in 2004...

Share: AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Ranch, a holistically designed Live Smart℠ community by Hillwood Communities in the Georgetown-area, in partnership with Building Homes for Heroes and Perry Homes, welcomed U.S. Army Veteran Sergeant Kristopher Biggs and his family to their new, mortgage-free home Thursday. Sergeant Biggs served in the U.S. Army for seven years, including two deployments in Iraq. During his second tour, he was injured in an explosion that resulted in ...

Is there any good security reason for this trip to have been canceled by the president or is this all just politics? >> well, look, wolf, the president himself called it public relations and i think that may be something that a lot of military people and military families might disagree that traveling to afghanistan is about public relations if the speaker of the house is going there to meet with commanders, talk to the troops and see what is going on. military aircraft continue to fly their mis...

Spent a lot of time in combat as a lieutenant and captain. it frosts me enormously then and now when the enemy action takes place, theyre armed, theyre clever, theyre trying to do us in. it isnt necessarily a mistake, its a combat action. so i dont think theres any wrongdoing here. this is a bad day at black rock for a u.s. small unit. >> important for that perspective. senator, there seems to be a sense of frustration, even anger seems to boil over among some lawmakers who say theyve been kept ...

Ordnance disposal, a bomb expert on a mission in northern iraq. their vehicle apparently struck an i.e.d. this underscores isis expert in laying out these devices all over the place. we dont know if the teams were exactly working with the iraqis on the assault on mosul but they were in northern iraq where certainly there is plenty of combat action. u u.s. troops supposed to be staying behind the front lines. but in situations like this the front lines are everywhere. brooke. >> thank you for sha...

Ownership ownership, how u.s. navy wins." a lot breaking on this story, including dramatic new footage of this special opposis unit an what happened during this raid. >> going off the sound bite they just played about that not being combat, when you hear machine gunfire and there is people running to try to kill an enemy and an enemy is trying to kill you, thats combat. >> what about the fact theyre having trouble calling it combat, the classification, because there are a lot of benefits that ca...