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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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This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows wall construction in Rafah, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Egypt building walled compound for fleeing Palestinians

Egypt is rapidly constructing a walled buffer zone on the border of eastern Sinai in the event of an exodus of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel's war against Hamas, the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, a nongovernmental organization based in London, said this week.

February 16, 2024
Ukrainian servicemen unpack Javelin anti-tank missiles, delivered as part of the United States of America's security assistance to Ukraine, at the Boryspil airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 11, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine arms accountability shaky, says Pentagon IG

Some of the more than $113 billion worth of weapons and military equipment the U.S. shipped to Ukraine for its fight against Russia couldn't be used in combat operations because of improper maintenance and poor conditions at U.S. Army warehouses in Europe.

February 15, 2024
United States Navy sailors carry a U.S. flag during Opening Day celebrations before the San Diego Padres play the Atlanta Braves in a baseball game Thursday, April 14, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

New Navy regs allow sailors to keep their hands in pockets, wear false eyelashes

The Navy may have found an answer to its daunting recruiting challenges: Sailors can now put their hands in their pockets while in uniform. The decision to lift the service's decadeslong ban was announced Wednesday in an official bulletin known as a Navadmin that also addressed changes to uniform items worn by female sailors.

February 14, 2024
Then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, attends a press conference after the meeting of the 'Ukraine Defense Contact Group' at Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, Tuesday, Sept.19, 2023. Gen. Milley opened up a little bit at the AUSA function on the lessons to be drawn from his tenure and what has been learned from the Russia-Ukrainian conflict, which will soon mark its second anniversary. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Retired Gen. Milley: U.S. must learn from Ukraine, prepare for China

Ukraine had been independent since 1991 when President Vladimir Putin ordered his tanks across the border nearly two years ago. Russian soldiers quickly found themselves battling not just a rival army but an entire nation at arms, retired Army Gen. Mark A. Milley said Tuesday in a forum sponsored by the Association of the U.S. Army.

February 13, 2024
A Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter flies during training at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. A Marine Corps helicopter, like the one pictured, that had been missing with five troops aboard as a historic storm continued drenching California was found Wednesday morning, Feb. 7, 2024, in a mountainous area outside San Diego. The military confirmed on Thursday morning that the five Marines have died. (K.C. Alfred/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Marines identify 5 killed in helicopter crash

The Marine Corps on Friday released the names of the five Marines who died Tuesday when their CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashed in California during a training flight.

February 9, 2024
Houthi fighters stage a rally against the U.S. government designating Houthis as a terror group and against the U.S.-led sustained airstrikes on Yemen, near Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo /Osamah Abdulrahman )

Top U.S. intel agency offers evidence of Iran-Houthi ties on drones, missiles

Iran has cultivated a close relationship with Yemen's Houthi rebels for nearly a decade and has emerged as the primary supplier of the missiles and drones it is using to attack commercial ship traffic in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, the Defense Intelligence Agency said in a new report.

February 7, 2024
In this Jan. 25, 2020, file photo, U.S. Army Sgt. Juan Dominguez prepares his rucksack inside the barracks on Tolemaida Air Base, in Colombia. Members of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, which is based in D.C. and typically guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, were mobilized last month to respond to massive protests over the treatment of Black Americans and systemic issues of police brutality. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan, File)

Lawmakers grill Pentagon officials about ‘disgusting’ barracks conditions

Military recruits don't expect to live in the Taj Mahal when they enlist. But they also don't expect to be assigned to spend their free time in filthy barracks with vermin-infested rooms, broken air conditioners and patches of mold on the wall. But all too often, that is the case in the U.S. armed forces these days, lawmakers said Wednesday.

February 7, 2024