A parole board on Friday denied a bid for parole from a woman who in 1984 convinced five Camp Pendleton Marines to kill her Marine husband, who was ambushed and fatally shot after she lured him to a deserted site. Laura Ann Troiani, 59, will not be eligible to be considered for parole for another …
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U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Johanna Clyborne of the Minnesota National Guard has been chosen as the deputy commanding general at the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence. Clyborne, who is 48 and in 2019 became the Minnesota National Guard’s first female two-star general, will maintain her duties as the assistant adjutant general in the Minnesota …
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Virginia officials have begun reviewing new names for a military reservation that currently honors a Confederate Army chief of artillery. Several alternatives for Camp Pendleton in Virginia Beach are being considered by a working group from the state’s veterans affairs and defense agencies and the Office of Diversity, Equity and …
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MADRID – Spain’s top military commander has been forced to resign after he and other high-ranking officers violated established protocols and received the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of time. Spain’s defense ministry confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday that Minister Margarita Robles had accepted the resignation of Chief of Staff Gen. Miguel Ángel Villarroya. His …
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Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived at the Pentagon on Friday to take on a lengthy national security to-do list, including a decision on whether to pull thousands of troops from backup duty at the border wall. President Joe Biden, shortly after taking the oath of office Wednesday, issued a proclamation to halt funding …
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