Staff Sgt. David Quay wasn’t a trained or experienced rescue swimmer. But he was ready and willing to go to any lengths to save a fellow soldier, and that made him the best man for the job. Quay, 29, a standardization instructor with 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, was on deployment and conducting a routine…
Staff Sgt. David Quay wasn’t a trained or experienced rescue swimmer. But he was ready and willing to go to any lengths to save a fellow soldier, and that made him the best man for the job. Quay, 29, a standardization instructor with 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, was on deployment and conducting a routine…
Armies should train for the battlefields they fight on. But the U.S. Army’s training sites don’t replicate the terrain that the Army is most likely to fight on, such as the Baltic states, Korea and Taiwan, warns a U.S. Army officer. For example, the Army’s largest training site — the National Training Center — is…
A new U.S. Army special operations forces manual has a mission: to convince the regular Army that the Green Berets have value for conventional combat operations. It’s a signal that the days of cowboy special operators are over. As the U.S. military switches from small-unit counterinsurgency to big-unit mechanized warfare, ARSOF wants to show that…
Four soldiers are accused of sexually assaulting a victim in a barracks building at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, the Army confirmed. Pvt. 2nd Class Deron J. Gordon, Pfc. Kallon Curiel, Cpl. Pedro Angel Ruiz and Spc. Jadon Bosarge are accused of assaulting the victim on Oct. 27, 2024, said Michelle McCaskill, spokeswoman for the Army…
