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It only took the government six years to process my FOIA request. I got four pages of records.
The better part of a decade after I requested records of an award that stemmed from a 2018 insider attack in Syria, I finally got them from U.S. Central Command. I’m sharing them here.
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Army Ranger: Soldier’s last stand in Afghanistan was “the most honorable thing I have witnessed.”
In 2018, the leader of a team of Army Rangers on patrol in southeastern Afghanistan used his body to shield a U.S. crew in the cockpit of a medical evacuation helicopter from enemy machine gun fire. It would cost him his life.
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Army CID questioned a soldier about housing allowance fraud. Then he disappeared.
Things began to unravel in the summer of 2015, as investigators got wind of an alleged fraud. By that Christmas, Sergeant First Class Johnnie Johnson would be gone, never to be heard from again.
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Out of the ‘shadows’: Air Force U-28A crews awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses for the first time
Two U-28A Draco crews were awarded the nation’s highest honor for extraordinary aerial achievement for their efforts in support of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 as the country fell into chaos.
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Records show Marine Corps and nonprofit coordination in wake of disputed stories about Sgt. Nicole Gee’s transfer to Arlington
Phone calls—and donations—poured in to the nonprofit that flew Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee’s remains to Arlington National Cemetery after a since-discredited Fox News story prompted outrage.
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‘You learn to respond when somebody needs help’: New Yorkers help save asylum-seeker’s life
Two New York Naval Militia Marines and a New York Army National Guard staff sergeant rushed to aid a young woman who had cut her wrist while staying at a Holiday Inn in Queens, N.Y.
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