All posts tagged "U S Army"

A former "top lawyer" for the D.C. National Guard filed a Defense department complaint saying he faced retaliation after accusing two Army officers of lying about their Jan. 6. response, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Col. Earl Matthews, the top lawyer for the D.C. Guard during the Capitol riot, said the actions taken against him when he complained of delays were "textbook whistle-blower retaliation," according to the report.

"I saw real wrongdoing,” Matthews said. “I love the United States Army. To me, this is about Army values.”...

One of the hazards of participating in racially motivated extremist activity is getting banned from U.S. military facilities — as David Fair can attest.

Fair is no longer “allowed to enter military bases,” according to a disclosure he made during chat sessions on the encrypted messaging app Telegram that caters to racist skinheads in the United States and Europe.

“I honestly don’t know if it’s the fact that I’m the leader of a white nationalist group or January 6th involvement,” Fair elaborated in a voice chat posted in the channel, which Raw Story has reviewed. “Trying to figure it out myself. I don’t know what to tell my boss. Which one’s worse?”...

The U.S. Army is conducting a formal review of a reservist who conducted a “white nationalist” paramilitary training in North Carolina earlier this year and has boasted of Ku Klux Klan ties.

Christopher Woodall, a 34-year-old member of the U.S. Army’s Individual Ready Reserve, has a long history of involvement in the KKK and other white supremacist groups.

Woodall recruited “like-minded folks” to attend paramilitary-style trainings to learn about firearms, tactical movement and survivalism in preparation for “SHTF,” an acronym that references a widespread societal breakdown. ...

A judge allowed a former Utah state wildlife biologist’s suit to go forward against the U.S. Army.

New records obtained by the Defending Dissent Foundation prove that the United States Army used a multi-agency spy network to gather intelligence on nonviolent, antiwar protesters and to disseminate their findings to both the FBI and local police departments.