fitness America's Obesity Epidemic is a Challenge for the Military More than 70% of Americans ages 17-24 don’t meet the fitness standards to serve in the military, due to a variety of reasons including obesity. That creates a challenge for recruiters and the staff trying to keep personnel fit and healthy.
Military Remembering Colin Powell, a Black Military Trailblazer The late Colin Powell was the first Black Secretary of State and deeply studied African American military history, says Brandeis University’s Chad Williams. “We need to remember him as part of that tradition. A tradition that is rife with struggle, with pain, with institutionalized racism, but also with heroic achievement and accomplishment,” Williams said.
Afghanistan Report: U.S. Was Aware of Threat to Afghan Airport Before Bombing U.S. officials were aware the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul could be targeted. But the gate was kept open to allow British personnel time to evacuate – then a suicide bomber struck Thursday. Politico reporter Lara Seligman talks about her reporting on that bombing and U.S. drone strikes in retaliation, which killed several civilians. Plus, we...
Afghanistan What is ISIS-K, Terror Group Believed to Be Behind Kabul Airport Attack? Officials have not confirmed it, but terror group ISIS-K is believed to be behind the explosion that killed more than a dozen U.S. servicemembers and 60 Afghans at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday. Former CIA analyst and U.S. Army member Matt Zeller explains what he knows about the group.
Afghanistan As Taliban Take Over Afghanistan, We Have to Watch Out for ‘Spin' In this new era of rule in Afghanistan, “we can’t be duped by the spin cycle of what the Taliban is saying that they are,”says Farah Pandith of the Council on Foreign Relations. She doesn’t want the world to forget that women and girls will have a hard time in the new Afghanistan.
Afghanistan 40K Afghans Could Come to the U.S. As Refugees or on Visas Some newcomers to the U.S. will be on SIVs, or Special Immigrant Visas, while others will have refugee status as they flee the Taliban. Ashley Faye from Refugee Services of Texas believes as many as 40,000 people could come to the U.S., including 354 families headed to Texas.
Afghanistan Afghanistan Vet Asks: ‘Why Aren't We Saving People?' Matt Zeller served in the Army in Afghanistan and says he is only alive because an interpreter saved his life from Taliban fighters. He's speaking up as the U.S. withdraws from the country and leaving some people behind.
Afghanistan From a Vet: Why Americans Should Care About Afghanistan Matt Zeller of the advocacy group No One Left Behind says Taliban fighters are going into people’s homes and “literally stealing their daughters” as the U.S. leaves Afghanistan. He says the U.S. promised interpreters and others to help in their time of need, and that time is now.
foreign policy An Interpreter Saved His Life in Afghanistan. He Wants to Return the Favor to Others. As the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, translators could be in danger, says Matt Zeller of No One Left Behind. Zeller says he is only alive today because an interpreter saved his life in combat. Now he’s speaking up for other interpreters and urging President Biden and Congress to act swiftly to bring Afghan interpreters to Guam, where they can be...
LX In Rare Move, U.S. Confirms Footage Shows a UFO Unknown flying objects could be a military aircraft from here, or a foreign country. But it’s rare for the Department of Defense to come out and say they can’t identify something. LX News spoke to Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, for more context.
