military

Adam Weinstein · 05/06/14 04:09PM

Why won't the U.S. government let veterans smoke weed? Shit, VICE, that's a damn good question.

Pentagon to Force Military Recruits to Buy Ugly Sneakers

Adam Weinstein · 04/28/14 12:05PM

In a great victory for freedom and democracy, the DOD has announced it will require all boot camp recruits to use their shoe allowance to buy only American shoes! And in a great victory for socialism, they'll only be able to buy one company's ugly government-subsidized shoes.

Iran Is Building a Copy of a U.S. Aircraft Carrier Just to Blow it Up

Adam Weinstein · 04/28/14 08:59AM

Last month, U.S. military planners were scratching their heads over why the Iranians were building a painstaking replica of a Nimitz-class American aircraft carrier, all the way down to the deck numbers. Well, it turns out Iran just really wants to make it go boom.

Idaho Bigots Won't Let Elderly Gay Veteran Be Buried With Her Wife

Adam Weinstein · 04/24/14 12:00PM

Madelynn Taylor, 74, served six years in the Navy. Madelynn Taylor grew up with the woman she would eventually marry in Oregon, in 1995. Madelynn Taylor is welcome to be buried in the veterans' cemetery in Idaho, where she now lives. But not with her now-deceased spouse, thanks to an anti-gay state law.

Adam Weinstein · 04/15/14 02:01PM

The top Marine who last week told Congress that pay cuts were good for discipline apologized to his troops in a letter for "a mistaken impression that I don't care about your quality of life and that I support lower pay for servicemembers." He then dropped them all and demanded 20 pushups.

Adam Weinstein · 04/11/14 12:51PM

Huffington Post has pulled an infographic and article suggesting a link between U.S. killings by vets and their war service, after Gawker and Business Insider debunked them. "We regret that the data as presented in our graphic was incomplete and misleading," a HuffPo editors' note read.

Top Marine Says Pay Cuts Will Improve Discipline, Neck-Stomping Skills

Adam Weinstein · 04/10/14 09:37AM

Most military bigwigs might beg Congress not to reduce their troops' pay. But they're not the Marines' top enlisted man, who told a Senate panel to slash away Wednesday. His Marines could care less, he said, because they just "want to know into whose neck do we put a boot next."

The Injury Crisis Among Veterans

Hamilton Nolan · 04/09/14 08:43AM

After more than a decade of foreign wars, many of America's military veterans deal with combat injuries and PTSD. But an even larger problem is the mass of soldiers who've come home with devastating non-combat injuries.

Black Female Soldiers Say the Army's New Hair Rules Are Racist

Adam Weinstein · 04/02/14 12:45PM

The Army published new regulations Monday regarding how women can wear their hair when in uniform, and women are already up in arms. Specifically, thousands of minority women who say the service is discriminating against "ethnic" hairstyles.

"Marine Todd" Is an Awesomely Stupid Right-Wing Meme That Got Hijacked

Adam Weinstein · 03/31/14 12:55PM

It's the story of a man. A man who went to war. And then went to college. And then decked a godless shithead professor. It's a feel-good story! And it went viral among God-fearing Murkans. And then Twitter got hold of it. And then it got really good.

New Research: Nixon Wanted "Dirty Tricks" to Cover Up My Lai Massacre

Adam Weinstein · 03/24/14 02:21PM

Richard Nixon was a secretive paranoid bigoted sonofabitch. But we never knew the half of it: It turns out his administration waded neck-deep into efforts to sink a war-crimes investigation against U.S. soldiers who notoriously butchered an entire village in Vietnam.

Sarah Hedgecock · 03/20/14 11:15AM

[Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, who admitted to inappropriate relationships with three subordinates, arrives at the courthouse with attorney Ellen Brotman for sentencing at Fort Bragg on Thursday. He was reprimanded and docked $20,000 in pay, avoiding jail time in one of the U.S. military's most closely watched courts-martial. Image via Ellen Ozier)/AP.]