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.
An amphibious assault vehicle that sank off the coast of San Clemente Island last week during a training exercise has been located, U.S. Marine Corps officials confirmed Tuesday.
Army general Daniel Hokanson became the newest member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Monday when he assumed the top spot at the National Guard Bureau in a ceremony at Fort Meyer in Washington.
Part of the U.S. Army's recently reactivated V Corps headquarters will be sent to Poland while other U.S. military organizations in Europe are being shifted out of Germany, as the Pentagon moved quickly to implement President Trump's shake-up of U.S. forces on the continent.
A controversial retired Army general whose nomination hearing for the top policy job at the Pentagon was abruptly cancelled Thursday will instead "perform the duties" of Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy - but without a vote by the Senate.
Chinese-controlled social media apps like TikTok are feeding information directly to the Chinese Communist Party and their national security apparatus, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday on Fox News Channel.
Seven U.S. Marines and one Navy sailor missing since their amphibious assault vehicle sank off the coast of San Diego on Thursday are believed to be dead, officials from the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton said.
The Army wants to have a major role in the hotly-contested Indo-Pacific region, an area more traditionally thought of as within the Navy's domain. The service is looking for potential locations to base long-range precision weapons that would be used by one of its new units combining the power of cannons and missiles along with cyber attacks, the Army Chief of Staff said Friday.
Ships and helicopters from the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard were sweeping an area off the coast of San Diego on Friday for any signs of seven Marines and a sailor who were aboard a Marine amphibious assault vehicle when it sank in a deadly training accident the day before.
President Trump's pick for the Pentagon's top policy job saw his chances of being confirmed as undersecretary take a big hit Thursday after his Senate nomination hearing was abruptly canceled just before it was set to begin.
Army inspectors told Congress on Wednesday that Fort Hood's sexual assault and harassment prevention programs meet basic service standards, but acknowledged they were not able to examine the unit where slain soldier Vanessa Guillen had been assigned.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday lashed out at the Chinese government for threatening an economic boycott of Australia as a means to sow discord with the United States, as senior U.S. and Australian officials met in Washington to discuss rising tensions in the region.
A former supply officer assigned to a U.S. Army Special Forces company in North Carolina stole more than 40 high-tech night-vision goggles from the unit -- valued at more than $500,000 -- and planned to sell them to a local military surplus store, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
It made headlines as the likely source of the Navy's worst COVID-19 outbreak, but the USS Theodore Roosevelt's port call in March to Da Nang, Vietnam, may be remembered in the long run as a milestone in a major power shift in Asia.
Russian troops operating in Syria are, for the most part, abiding by mutually agreed upon "rules of the road" dictating how they should act when in close proximity to the US-led coalition currently operating against Islamic State fighters, a senior official with Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve said this week.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on the original plan that sent a US Navy aircraft carrier to Vietnam for a port visit that later resulted in a coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship, the Navy's top admiral in the Pacific said.
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper hasn't publicly announced any plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops in South Korea but his chief spokesman at the Pentagon indicated large-scale troop rotations rather than maintaining permanent overseas bases is the way of the future.
German politicians representing areas where large numbers of American military personnel are based want Congress to force President Trump to back down on his plans to withdraw almost 10,000 U.S. troops from Germany.