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Mike Glenn

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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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In this Jan. 15, 2018, photo, U.S. Marines watch during the change of command ceremony at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini) **FILE**

Pentagon offers first progress report on exit from Afghanistan

Kicking off President Biden's withdrawal from operations in Afghanistan, the military reported Tuesday it has already moved the equivalent of 60 C-17 loads of material out of the country and turned over more than 1,300 pieces of equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency for destruction.

May 4, 2021
“This is not an isolated incident. Right now, a cascading series of failures within the military is causing the U.S. to lose more service members in preventable training accidents than in combat,” said Rep. John Garamendi, chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on Readiness, who convened Monday’s hearing. (Associated Press)

House lawmakers press for answers after deadly Marines training accident

Lance Cpl. Ostrovsky, along with eight other infantry Marines and a Navy corpsman, Petty Officer Christopher Gnem, drowned July 30, 2020 when their AAV sank near San Clemente Island while it was churning through the water toward the USS Somerset, its destination. A recent Marine Corps command investigation into the incident blamed the deaths on a "chain of failure" by commanding officers, shoddy maintenance on the assault vehicles along with inadequate training and poor communications. Lawmakers said the Pentagon needed to do some soul-searching.

May 3, 2021
Air Force One with President Donald Trump and the first family on board, departs Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.(AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) **FILE**

Boeing woes could mean delays for new Air Force One

The troubled rollout of the replacement for Air Force One could be facing more obstacles following a dispute between aerospace giant Boeing and one of its contractors hired to build the next generation of perhaps the most iconic jetliner flying today.

May 2, 2021
Colin Kahl was national security advisor to then-Vice President Biden during the Obama administration and will now be undersecretary of defense for policy, one of the top three civilian jobs at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

Colin Kahl confirmed by Senate for Pentagon policy position

President Biden got his choice for the Pentagon's top policy job on Tuesday after Republican absences on Capitol Hill meant he didn't need to call on his vice president to break a looming confirmation vote tie in the Senate.

April 27, 2021
In this photo released on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are launched in a drill in Iran. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces on Friday held a military exercise involving ballistic missiles and drones in the country's central desert, state TV reported, amid heightened tensions over Tehran's nuclear program and a U.S. pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP) **FILE**

Keep sanctions on Iranian missiles in nuke talks, group urges

President Biden should retain the Trump administration's sanctions on Iran's expansive ballistic missile programs even as it reaches out to Tehran to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, a leading conservative think tank said in a new report Tuesday.

April 27, 2021
In this April 6, 2010 file photo, Sgt. Troy Bencke, right, points toward Afghan air force engineers as they work on an Mi-17 helicopter inside a hangar in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

U.S. exit threatens to ground Afghanistan air force

Afghanistan's fledgling air force gets most of its critical maintenance services from civilian contractors who will be accompanying U.S. military forces out of the country by September, ending America's 20-year presence in the country, raising fresh fears about the Kabul government's ability to prosecute the war against the Taliban and jihadist terror groups.

April 22, 2021