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- Pentagon spokesman John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Report: US military must do more to avoid civilian deaths
By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press
Thu,03/31/22-6:06PM , 174 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, training, targeting and use of weapons in order to better avoid widespread civilian deaths and damage such as the devastating 2017 battle to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants, a new RAND report said Thursday.
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- Frida Larios places flowers near of photograph of slain Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen at the base of a mural of Guillen on 14th Street NW in Washington, July 13, 2020. Guillen was killed by a soldier, who her family says sexually harassed her, and who killed himself as police sought to arrest him. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Pentagon links leadership failures to violence at bases
By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press
Thu,03/31/22-11:00AM , 150 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Military bases with a high risk for sexual assault, harassment and other harmful behaviors often have leaders who don't understand violence prevention, don't make it a priority and focus more on their mission than on their people, a Pentagon review has concluded.
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- In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019 and released by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt., salutes the flag during a ceremony signifying the change from tactical to enduring operations at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that military investigations have found that poor leadership, inadequate training and a "culture of complacency” among U.S. forces undermined efforts to fend off a 2020 attack by militants in Kenya that killed three Americans. (Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP, File )
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Scathing reports find military failures in 2020 Kenya attack
By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press
Thu,03/10/22-11:31AM , 183 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Military investigations have found poor leadership, inadequate training and a "culture of complacency” among U.S.
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- In this Dec. 23, 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Rear Adm. John Korka, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), and Chief of Civil Engineers, leads Navy and civilian water quality recovery experts through the tunnels of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Native Hawaiians who revere water in all its forms as the embodiment of a Hawaiian god say the Navy's acknowledgement that jet fuel leaked into Pearl Harbor's tap water has deepened the distrust they feel toward the U.S. military. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Luke McCall/U.S. Navy via AP, File)
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Pentagon to shut down leaking fuel tank facility in Hawaii
By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press
Mon,03/07/22-1:02PM , 227 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department will permanently shut down the Navy's massive fuel tank facility in Hawaii that leaked petroleum into Pearl Harbor's tap water, and will remove all the fuel, the Pentagon said Monday.
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