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Mike Glenn

mglenn@washingtontimes.com

Mike Glenn grew up on Navy bases as the son of a career sailor but then decided to annoy his father and joined the Army after he graduated from high school in the Dallas area. He did a hitch as an enlisted soldier in Germany during the Cold War, where he spent a considerable amount of time in the field on maneuvers. After leaving the Army, he moved back home to northeast Texas and entered the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied history. He also took Army ROTC classes at UT Arlington and upon graduation received a commission as a Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss in El Paso and took his platoon to the Middle East where he fought in the Gulf War. He got into journalism after Operation Desert Storm and has worked at newspapers and magazines throughout Texas. He joined The Washington Times from the Houston Chronicle. He can be reached at mglenn@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Mike Glenn

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, and Qatari Defense Minister Khalid Bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. (Olivier Douliery/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Defense secretary orders high-level probe into errant Kabul missile

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin wants a senior military officer to look into an Aug. 29 missile strike on a car in Kabul that killed almost a dozen innocent civilians, including children, instead of terrorists planning to attack U.S. military personnel.

September 20, 2021
Frank Kendall III, President Joe Biden's nominee to be secretary of the Air Force, appears for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

New Air Force chief dings Congress for backing aging weapons, planes

New Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall used his first public speech on Monday to take a jab at Congress for its keeping aging weapons systems like the 45-year-old A-10 Thunderbolt alive, reducing the amount of money that could go to next-generation aircraft.

September 20, 2021
Lake Worth Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian, center, walks down Foster Drive near the location where a military training jet crashed on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, in Lake Worth, Texas. The jet crashed Sunday in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said. (Amanda McCoy/Star-Telegram via AP)

U.S. military training jet crashes in Dallas suburb

A Navy training jet crashed into a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, damaging several homes and sending the pilot and a student aviator to the hospital, officials said.

September 19, 2021
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Thursday, June 17, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Milley denies wrongdoing in China communications

America's top military officer is defending his telephone calls to reassure China's communist leaders that the U.S. wasn't planning to launch an attack against them in the waning days of the Trump administration.

September 15, 2021
Traffic moves toward a tank and sign at the main entrance to Fort Pickett Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, in Blackstone, Va. Afghan refugees who have been prescreened by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have been taken to Fort Lee as well as Fort Pickett according to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Pentagon tries to calm base residents over Afghan measles cases

Pentagon officials are trying to reassure residents at two Army bases that they're dealing strongly with a pair of measles outbreaks tied to newly arrived Afghan refugees. It was the latest snag in the Biden administration's troubled effort to extricate the U.S. from America's 20-year war in Afghanistan and provide for those who helped the American combat mission.

September 13, 2021
Israel Aerospace Industries' semi-autonomous four-wheel-drive "REX MKII" is seen at an IAI facility near the central Israeli city of Lod, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. Israel's state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries unveiled Monday a state-of-the-art unmanned vehicle their specialists said will be deployed alongside ground troops to assist in combat situations. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel debuts battlefield robot to support, protect troops

An Israeli defense contractor on Monday rolled out a remote-controlled armed robot that its maker says can keep human troops out of harm's way. The Rex MK II is just the latest unmanned combat system that is changing the face of tomorrow's battlefield.

September 13, 2021
A U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan on a moonlit night. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) **FILE**

Marines don’t fear the Reaper

In a sign of its rapidly evolving mission, the Marine Corps is fielding its first MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft and retiring its fleet of RQ-21 Blackjack drones.

September 9, 2021
Evacuees from Afghanistan wait with other evacuees to fly to the United States or another save location in a makeshift departure gate inside a hanger at the United States Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. One of largest American military community overseas gets to a transport hub and houses thousands Afghan evacuees. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Military checking 21,000 Afghans on U.S. bases in Europe

About 12,000 Afghan refugees are waiting for their trip to the United States at Ramstein Air Base, a sprawling facility in southwest Germany that is one of four U.S. military bases in Europe offering temporary refuge for people who fled Afghanistan because they faced reprisals from the new Taliban rulers.

September 2, 2021