We start the week with Tony Lombardo, Army Times editor, sitting down with ABC’s Good Morning America. Lombardo spoke about the controversial photo of West Point cadets with raised fists, that spurred public uproar and an investigation by the U.S. Military Academy. Watch the Good Morning America segment. Read the original Army Times story by Tony …
The New York Times quoted and linked to the Navy Times story on the Navy’s new tattoo policy. Navy Times broke the news first on March 31 with the headline, “The Navy just approved the military’s best tattoo rules.” Read the full New York Times story. Read the original Navy Times story by Mark Faram.
Military Times Pentagon Bureau Chief, Andrew Tilghman, was recently on NPR’s On Point program discussing the U.S. strategy on ISIS. This was in the wake of the President’s announcement that more troops are headed into Syria. Listen to the NPR recording here. Read more stories by Andrew Tilghman.
Military Times Congressional bureau chief, Leo Shane, interviewed Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald for C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.” He conducted the interview alongside Pulitzer Prize winner David Wood of The Huffington Post. Watch a clip of the interview here.
For two consecutive days, Forbes featured Military Times’ Best for Vets: Colleges and Business Schools rankings. Both linked to the original MilitaryTimes.com stories detailing the methodology and key data derived from the rankings. Military Times Best for Vets: Colleges 2017 will be out later this year. Read the full Forbes colleges story. Read the full Forbes business schools story. …
Air Force Times’ report on the recent murder-suicide story at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland was quoted by The Washington Post. Read the full Washington Post story. Read the original Air Force Times story by Stephen Losey and Oriana Pawlyk.
Navy Times’ story on the White House’s efforts to limit comment on the South China Sea story was recently mentioned by CNN and Washington Post reports. The Wall Street Journal also referenced the same story in an editorial just before Secretary Ash Carter’s visit to the Philippines last week. The editorial is pasted below. Read the …
Marine Corps Times was mentioned by the Daily Beast in it’s April 8 story entitled, The Hidden Movement to Draft General James Mattis for President. Read the full Daily Beast story. Read the original Marine Corps Times story by Oriana Pawlyk.
Army Times reported on the Army’s plan to put pocket-sized drones in the hands of dismounted soldiers by 2018. Newsweek mentioned the Army Times report in this April 5 story. Read the full Newsweek story. Read the original Army Times story by Kyle Jahner.
