Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'Army'
October 20, 2008
An Army soldier was arrested at MacArthur airport on Long Island Saturday morning after she tried to bring a loaded revolver on a flight to San Antonio, Texas. The piece was not Army issue and 38-year-old Spc. Vonda Collier, who has been stationed for the past year at Camp Liberty near Baghdad, did not have a New York license to carry it. She was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon after it......
Continue Reading "Loaded Revolver in Bag Gets Soldier Arrested at MacArthur Airport"April 13, 2008
Images of the shrapnel-damaged bedroom from WNBC A NJ family is very angry at the Army for "misfiring" a projectile and having part of a shell crash through their roof and onto their daughter's bed. Their 10-year-old daughter had just left for a sleepover, but the family cat who was sleeping there was so seriously injured she had to be euthanized. The 6-inch by 4-inch, 2-pound piece of shrapnel lay smoldering on the bed......
Continue Reading "Army's Weapons Testing Damages NJ Home, Kills Cat"March 19, 2008
Photograph of soldiers in the 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment studying a map during a house search in Baghdad by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Five years ago today, the United States became involved with the Iraq War. While many Americans are unhappy with the war, per the Washington Post, "For the Bush administration, however, it is the first anniversary of an Iraq strategy that it believes has finally started to succeed." Today President Bush......
Continue Reading "Five Years Later, United States Still in Iraq"
