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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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Sgt. Gabriela Corbalan rings a bell as the names of the soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, are read during an event at the Buffalo Soldiers Museum, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, in Houston. U.S. Army officials say they will overturn the convictions of more than 100 Black soldiers accused of a mutiny at a Houston military camp a century ago in a trial that had racial undertones. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP) ** FILE **

Soldiers in segregated Army fought the enemy in Korea and prejudice at home

James Thompson and his fellow soldiers from the 24th Infantry Regiment fought North Korean troops from the Yalu River to the Pusan Perimeter more than 70 years ago. but also battled racism and prejudice from their own side as members of one of the Army's segregated "Buffalo Soldiers" units.

November 8, 2024
This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, taking radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. (Matthew Nicholls via AP) ** FILE **

Danger beside them: Troops who served at K2 may get expedited claims

Some of the first U.S. combat operations against al Qaeda and the Taliban following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were launched from a former Soviet air base in southeastern Uzbekistan called Karshi-Khanabad, also known as K2. Between 2001 and 2005, about 16,000 U.S. military and Defense Department personnel served at the base.

November 4, 2024
An Israeli border police officer stands guard at the site of a Palestinian car-ramming and stabbing attack at a bus stop in Ra'anana, Israel, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. Israeli police say a car-ramming and stabbing attack by Palestinians killed a woman and wounded at least 12 others north of Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel busts another Iran-backed spy ring

Prosecutors in Israel said a husband and wife gathered intelligence on "key national infrastructure sites" inside the country, with both of them following a national security think tank staffer targeted for harm by Iran.

October 31, 2024
Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of an UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

Pentagon officials slam new Israeli laws blocking controversial U.N. relief agency

The Defense Department on Tuesday condemned a pair of bills passed this week by Israel's parliament that would effectively bar UNRWA, the U.N.'s primary Palestinian relief agency, from operating inside the country. Biden administration officials said the legislation, passed Monday in the Knesset, could trigger an even greater crisis inside the Gaza Strip.

October 29, 2024
German's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius attends a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force of the U.S. Gen. CQ Brown and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (Andreas Arnold/dpa via AP)

German warships avoiding Red Sea amid threats from Houthi rebels

Civilian shipping and oil companies such as Maersk and BP aren't the only ones telling their merchant vessels to avoid the Red Sea for fear of being attacked by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels of Yemen. The German government this week ordered two of its warships to go around Africa because of the threats, according to the German magazine Der Spiegel.

October 29, 2024
In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a member from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing prepares to marshal a C-17 Globemaster lll as another C-17 taxis onto the flightline Aug. 23, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. (Airman 1st Class Kylie Barrow/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Pricey soap dispensers on Air Force planes lead to parts probe

Complaints that the Air Force was being overcharged for bathroom soap dispensers in its C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft prompted a Defense Department audit that steered toward finding that the service wasn't paying "fair and reasonable" prices for many of the fleet's spare parts.

October 29, 2024