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Mike Glenn

mglenn@washingtontimes.com

Mike Glenn grew up on Navy bases as the son of a career sailor but then decided to annoy his father and joined the Army after he graduated from high school in the Dallas area. He did a hitch as an enlisted soldier in Germany during the Cold War, where he spent a considerable amount of time in the field on maneuvers. After leaving the Army, he moved back home to northeast Texas and entered the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied history. He also took Army ROTC classes at UT Arlington and upon graduation received a commission as a Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss in El Paso and took his platoon to the Middle East where he fought in the Gulf War. He got into journalism after Operation Desert Storm and has worked at newspapers and magazines throughout Texas. He joined The Washington Times from the Houston Chronicle. He can be reached at mglenn@washingtontimes.com.

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This Jan. 4, 2020, photo shows a sign for at Fort Bragg, N.C. Named for a Confederate general, Ft. Bragg is among a number of Army installations that federal law required be renamed. A renaming commission has come up with about 100 names of individuals who could be honored, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Omar Bradley, and Harriet Tubman, a former slave and Underground Railroad conductor who also served as a Union scout during the Civil War. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) **FILE**

Pentagon releases list of possible replacement names for Army posts honoring Confederates

President Eisenhower, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, five-star Army Gen. Omar Bradley and Alwyn Cashe, a soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor last year for heroism in Iraq are among the nearly 100 possible new candidate names for nine Army installations that are being stripped of their current names honoring Confederate generals and officials.

March 17, 2022
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Mykola Tochytskyi, left, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, second left, the Head of the Ukrainian Servant of the People faction Davyd Arakhamia, third left, Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak, fourth left, Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov, fifth right, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Russian State Duma's International Affairs Committee, fourth right, Russian Presidential Aide and the head of the Russian delegation Vladimir Medinsky, third right, Deputy Minister of Defense Alexander Fomin, second right, and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko, attend the Russian-Ukrainian talks in the Belavezhskaya Pushcha National Park, close to the Polish-Belarusian border, northward from Brest, in Belarus, Monday, March 7, 2022. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

A neutral Ukraine key to deal, Russian negotiator says as talks continue

Ukraine could become an officially neutral country with its own military, along the lines of Sweden or Austria, as a compromise to help find a diplomatic solution to the three-week-old conflict that has claimed thousands of lives, the Kremlin official who leads Russia's delegation to the talks said Wednesday.

March 16, 2022
In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019 and released by the U.S. Air Force, airmen from the 475th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron conduct a flag-raising ceremony, signifying the change from tactical to enduring operations, at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. The al-Shabab extremist group said Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 that it has attacked the Camp Simba military base used by U.S. and Kenyan troops in coastal Kenya, while Kenya's military says the attempted pre-dawn breach was repulsed and at least four attackers were killed. (Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Pentagon report details failings in deadly 2020 Kenya attack

Years of complacent leadership and inadequate security measures at a U.S. military base in Africa were among the reasons why a large group of well-armed Somali militants was able to kill three Americans and destroy more than $70 million worth of equipment in an ambush two years ago, Pentagon officials said.

March 10, 2022