On Sept. 8, 2009, Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer, then a 21-year-old corporal, defied the orders of his superiors while on duty in a remote province in eastern Afghanistan, raced into a “killing zone” and helped rescue 36 U.S. and Afghan troops. When President Obama recently called to tell Meyer he would be awarded the Medal of Honor , the military’s highest honor, Meyer didn’t take the call. Meyer, now 23, was working a new job in construction and asked the president to call him back another time. Read full article > >

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Marine hero of Afghanistan receives Medal of Honor in White House ceremony

On Sept. 8, 2009, Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer, then 21, defied the orders of his superiors while on duty in a remote province in eastern Afghanistan, raced into a “killing zone” and rescued 36 U.S. and Afghan troops. When President Obama recently called to tell Meyer he would be awarded the Medal of Honor , the military’s highest honor, Meyer didn’t take the call. Meyer, now 23, was working a new job in construction and asked the president to call him back another time. Read full article > >

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Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer receives Medal of Honor

A suit filed by victims of a former priest convicted of sex abuse says that his superiors hid information about him.

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Suit Says Jesuits Ignored Warnings About Priest

Washington – The U.S. Army has launched a wide-ranging investigation into how a private suspected of downloading thousands of secret reports and diplomatic cables and handing them over to WikiLeaks was able to do so and whether other soldiers should face criminal charges in the case, McClatchy has learned. The Army confirmed the investigation, but wouldn’t release details. An Army official familiar with the investigation told McClatchy that the six-member task force has been given until Feb. 1 to complete a report that will look at everything from how Pfc. Bradley Manning was selected for his job and trained to whether his superiors missed warning signs that he was downloading documents he had no need to read. read more

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WikiLeaks: Army Opens Probe Into How Bradley Manning Stole Files

Washington – The U.S. Army has launched a wide-ranging investigation into how a private suspected of downloading thousands of secret reports and diplomatic cables and handing them over to WikiLeaks was able to do so and whether other soldiers should face criminal charges in the case, McClatchy has learned. The Army confirmed the investigation, but wouldn’t release details. An Army official familiar with the investigation told McClatchy that the six-member task force has been given until Feb. 1 to complete a report that will look at everything from how Pfc. Bradley Manning was selected for his job and trained to whether his superiors missed warning signs that he was downloading documents he had no need to read. read more

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WikiLeaks: Army Opens Probe Into How Bradley Manning Stole Files

The head of British military prosecutions will prosecute soldiers and their superiors for torture if the evidence is there, the BBC is told.

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Army abuse claims ‘will be tried’

A group of soldiers in a rogue U.S. Army platoon accused of murdering several Afghan civilians for fun claim they were unwatched by their superiors and smoked hashish regularly, reports The New York Times, leaving many to wonder what happened to the…

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No Oversight for U.S. Soldiers Accused of Murder