ICE agents reportedly detain wife of US soldier just days after their marriage

‘She got ripped away from me,’ army soldier Matthew Blank said after his wife Annie Ramos was detained in Louisiana…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/ice-agents-detain-wife-of-us-soldier

 

History Minute #031: A lieutenant writes home

Quoting Zinn:

An infantry lieutenant wrote to his parents what happened after an officer named Walker was killed in battle:

"General Lane . . . told us to "avenge the death of the gallant Walker, to . . . take all we could lay hands on". And well and fearfully was his mandate obeyed. Grog shops were broken open first, and then, maddened with liquor, every species of outrage was committed. Old women and girls were stripped of their clothing—and many suffered still greater outrages. Men were shot by dozens . . . their property, churches, stores and dwelling houses ransacked. . . . Dead horses and men lay about pretty thick, while drunken soldiers, yelling and screeching, were breaking open houses or chasing some poor Mexicans who had abandoned their houses and fled for life. Such a scene I never hope to see again. It gave me a lamentable view of human nature . . . and made me for the first time ashamed of my country."

Excerpt From

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

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US Army soldier arrested over data breach extortion of AT&T and Verizon

"Roen said that prior to her son's arrest he'd acknowledged being associated with Connor Riley Moucka, a.k.a. "Judische," a prolific cybercriminal from Canada who was arrested in late October for stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that stored data at the cloud service Snowflake…"

https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/31/us-army-soldier-arrested-over-data-breach-extortion-of-att-and-verizon/

 

US army officer sues police who pointed guns and pepper-sprayed him during traffic stop

..."These cameras captured footage of behavior consistent with a disgusting nationwide trend of law enforcement officers who, believing they can operate with complete impunity, engage in unprofessional, discourteous, racially biased, dangerous and sometimes deadly abuses of authority," the lawsuit says...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/10/caron-nazario-army-police-guns-pepper-spray

Soldier sues Virginia policemen for pepper spray incident

A U.S. Army lieutenant filed a lawsuit against two Virginia police officers over what court papers say was a violent traffic stop, in which officers pointed their guns, knocked him to the ground and pepper sprayed him.
https://youtu.be/CpUtzNk5WJg

US soldier arrested after alleged plot to attack NYC landmark - ABC News

 An active duty American soldier is in federal custody Tuesday after he allegedly plotted with someone he thought was a member of ISIS to attack a landmark in New York City and fellow troops overseas, according to a law enforcement official...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-soldier-arrested-alleged-plot-attack-nyc-landmark/story

U.S. Army soldier Ethan Melzer plotted with satanic neo-Nazi group O9A to stage deadly attack, feds say - The Washington Post

As Ethan Melzer’s Army unit prepared to deploy in April, the young private recognized that he could be killed while overseas and expressed an apparent willingness to die. “I would’ve died successfully,” he allegedly wrote in a message. But federal authorities now say that Melzer’s life was actually at risk because of a murderous plot he had hatched against his own unit. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/23/army-attack-ethan-melzer-satanic/

Neo-Nazi U.S. Soldier Faces Federal Terrorism Charges For Plotting Attack On Unit | HuffPost

Ethan Melzer was part of the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) which federal prosecutors called a racist and “occult-based neo-Nazi” group.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-soldier-terrorism-charge-neo-nazi_n_5ef11e83c5b6503139dbfc2a

Israeli soldier gets community service after killing Gazan - ABC News

An Israeli soldier who shot and killed a Palestinian fisherman near the Gaza frontier in 2018 has been given 45 days of community service after an army investigation concluded he fired without authorization
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israeli-soldier-community-service-killing-gazan-71323585

US soldier discussed bombing media and targeting Beto O'Rourke, FBI alleges

A member of the US military has been arrested after he allegedly discussed plans to bomb a news network, suggested targeting the Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and explained how to make an improvised explosive device, or IED. The FBI charged Jarrett William Smith, a soldier stationed in Kansas, with distributing information related to explosives and weapons of mass destruction.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/23/jarrett-william-smith-soldier-bombing-fbi-beto-o-rourke