Long field exercises, deployments led to low morale in missing soldier’s unit, investigators say February 6 Pvt. Richard Halliday joined the Army in 2018, serving as a Patriot missile maintainer. His current whereabouts is unknown. (Find Richard Halliday cause/Facebook) The leaders of a Patriot missile battalion at Fort Bliss, Texas, where a soldier has been missing since July, were cleared by an investigation of allegations that their command climate pushed troops to go AWOL. But investigators did determine that soldiers were pushed to their limits and had poor morale due to a high training tempo that began after events in the Middle East necessitated the unit be ready for deployment earlier than originally expected.
The troops drank the potentially lethal substance thinking it was alcohol and became ill Thursday afternoon. All of them spent at least one night at William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss.
Army Investigates How Soldiers Drank Antifreeze Chemical as 2 Remain in ICU
Cars wait to enter Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday Sept. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca)
2 Feb 2021
Army investigators are trying to find out how the liquor that 11 hospitalized Fort Bliss, Texas soldiers confessed to drinking during a recent field exercise ended up containing a deadly ingredient used in antifreeze.
Nine of the soldiers have been released from the William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas but two still remain in stable condition in the intensive care unit, Lt. Col. Allie Payne, a spokeswoman for the 1st Armored Division told Military.com Monday.
Is the Carting Away of Russian Pantsir S1 linked to U.S. Army’s IM-SHORAD Testing? News Analysis 11334
Russian Pantsir S1 System on the move in Libya; Image via Twitter
Speculation is rife that the U S military moving a Russian-made Pantsir S1 air defence system (ADS) from Libya to Germany may have something to do with the development and testing of the Interim Maneuver, Short-range Air-defense (IM-SHORAD) of the U.S. Army.
In May 2020 reports and photos emerged that an intact Pantsir S1 system was captured by Libyan government forces from the Libyan National Army (LNA) aligned with renegade commander Khalifa Haftar which had received it from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
By SETH ROBSON AND YOO KYONG CHANG | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 22, 2021 Protesters failed to block 32 vehicles carrying construction equipment and materials onto a military base Friday in South Korea where the U.S. Army operates a missile-defense system, according to local media. More than 50 people staged a sit-in as trucks approached the former golf course that’s home to a U.S.-built and operated Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, about 190 miles south of Seoul in Seongju, The Joongang Ilbo, an English-language newspaper, reported. The 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment assumed the THAAD mission there in October after it was realigned with the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade in South Korea.