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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.

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As visitors emerge from the trench-like entrance of the Nation Overseas Gallery, cast figures, lighting effects, imagery, and sounds of distant battle recreate a settingþÄîbased on a famous photograph of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Viewed atop a glass and steel bridge, splintered trees and advancing American Soldiers maneuver amidst the battle wreckage. The film shown here plunges visitors into scenes of trench warfare and relays the U.S. ArmyþÄôs contributions to the war effort. Nearby a 1917 FT-17 tank, against a backdrop of recruiting posters, augments the experience. (National Museum of the United States Army Photo, Spc. Ian Miller)

National Museum of the Army opens on Veterans Day

After grand opening delays brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the roughly $400 million National Museum of the United States Army is finally set to open its doors to the public on Veterans Day this Wednesday.

November 9, 2020
VIRGINIA CLASS ATTACK SUBMARINE — The Virginia-class attack submarine USS California (SSN 781) underway during sea trials. (U.S. Navy photo by Chris Oxley/Released) ** FILE **

Navy inks deal for new class of subs

A Connecticut-based company that has been building U.S. Navy submarines for more than 100 years just signed a contract to develop the first vessels of the new Columbia class of ballistic missile submarines.

November 6, 2020
In this March 27, 2008, file photo, the Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) **FILE**

Some Trump executive orders at the Pentagon likely to get the axe if Biden wins

An election victory by Joseph R. Biden would likely mean the quick elimination of at least two military-related executive decisions enacted by the Trump administration -- the April 2019 ban on transgender military service and President Trump's more recent executive order banning what he called "divisive" diversity training.

November 3, 2020
In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, Capt. Ryan Vickers stands for a photo to display his new service tapes after taking his oath of office to transfer from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Space Force, the first new U.S. military service since the creation of the Air Force in 1947, now has some 20 members stationed at Qatar's Al-Udeid Air Base in its first foreign deployment. (Staff Sgt. Kayla White/U.S. Air Force via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. Space Force finally gets an astronaut

Air Force Col. Michael "Hopper" Hopkins will be in an appropriate location later this month when he transfers over to the recently created U.S. Space Force.

November 3, 2020
A soldier at Fort Benning, Ga., tests out new "Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular," or ENVG-B goggles in this U.S. Army photo from June 2020. The goggles already were outfitted with dual thermal and infrared sensing capabilities to deliver greater clarity to soldiers in the field, particularly in situations where their vision is compromised by weather or other factors. (U.S. Army) ** FILE **

Army tests next-gen fighting goggles for ground troops

American combat troops once boasted of "owning the night" because U.S. night vision technology easily surpassed that of other countries. But two decades worth of sustained conflict across the Middle East has meant a night vision parity with most other first-world military forces.

November 3, 2020
This undated photo provided by the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum in Monroe, La., shows an exhibit of artifacts from Maj. Richard Sherman, who flew 52 missions over China during World War II. Sherman was in the 11th Bomb Squadron of the Army's 14th Air Force under Gen. Claire Chennault, who nicknamed the 14th the Flying Tigers after the volunteer fighter group he had created while acting as a civilian advisor to nationalist China to defend that nation before the U.S. entered World War II. Sherman died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Monroe. (Nell Calloway/Chennault Aviation and Military Museum via AP) **FILE**

Army looks to get rid of some historical items

Any organization that's almost 250 years old is bound to accumulate a vast assortment of artifacts over the years. The U.S. Army has so many that it now needs to get rid of some of them, and your local history museum or VFW post may be the beneficiary.

November 2, 2020
FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2018, file photo, the U.S. Navy's USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier is anchored in Hong Kong. The U.S. 7th Fleet said Sunday the ships and aircraft from the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group and the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group staged joint, “high-end warfighting exercises” in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Another U.S. Navy sailor caught up in ‘Fat Leonard’ bribery scandal

A retired U.S. Navy petty officer from Maryland will spend more than two years in federal prison after admitting he funneled business to a Singapore-based defense contractor in exchange for luxury hotel accommodations and travel expenses, federal prosecutors said.

November 2, 2020
In this June 6, 1944, photo, U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, left, gives the order of the day to paratroopers in England prior to boarding their planes to participate in the first assault of the Normandy invasion. (U.S. Army Signal Corps via AP)

Army recruits first to get retro WWII-style uniforms

Recruiters and high-profile officers such as Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have been wearing the just-adopted Army Service Green service uniform for about two months and now new recruits will get the chance to look like they just stepped off the screen of a World War II movie.

November 2, 2020
Operation Welcome Home Maryland volunteers, including 13-year-old Francis [cq] Morena, Miss Junior Teen Delmarva, from Rockville, Md., right, clap as troops come home at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore, Md. on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. The welcome operation has greeted more than 800 flights and more than 180,000 soldiers home since its inception in March 2007. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

Patriot Express passengers subjected to random COVID-19 testing

Military passengers flying on Department of Defense-contracted flights will now be randomly tested for COVID-19 when they arrive at Seattle-Tacoma and Baltimore-Washington international airports, Pentagon officials announced Sunday.

November 1, 2020
In this Wednesday, May 1, 2019 photo, the headstones of World War II U.S. Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr, right, and his brother World War I First Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, buried side by side at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. President Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will next week honor the dwindling number of veterans of the D-Day landing that turned World War II amid plenty of signs the bonds of friendship are under strain. The United States has had a special bond with France throughout its history and especially during two world wars over the past century when even future presidents and sons of presidents risked their lives for the freedom of a friendly nation. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

U.S. war cemeteries in France closed due to COVID-19

Health concerns based on the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in the complete shuttering for at least a month of 25 U.S. cemeteries and memorials from World War I and II in France managed by the American Battle Monuments Commission, officials said.

October 30, 2020
Soldiers take part in an exercise of the U.S. Army Global Response Force in Hohenfels, Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Adam Smith, Washington Democrat, foresees military spending cut fight

An election that puts former Vice President Joseph Biden in the White House and solidifies Democratic control over Congress could mean the start of internal clashes within the party over military spending, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Thursday.

October 29, 2020
President Donald Trump listens as Gen. Gustave Perna speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

General plans campaign to deliver coronavirus vaccine quickly

The Pentagon general spearheading President Trump's drive to ensure a coronavirus vaccine gets to the American people in record time said Tuesday that Operation Warp Speed can only work if there is full buy-in from the public when the vaccine becomes available.

October 27, 2020
In this image provided by the U.S. Army, recent Army basic combat training graduates have their temperatures taken as they arrive at Fort Lee, Va, on March 31, 2020, after being transported using sterilized buses from Fort Jackson, S.C. COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on military recruiting, shuttering enlistment stations around the country and forcing thousands of recruiters to woo potential soldiers online. Recruiters have had to abandon their normal visits to high schools and malls, and instead rely almost exclusively on social media to reach young people. (U.S. Army via AP) **FILE**

Project Convergence tests new tech for new wars

With new marching orders, the Army is turning to technology to give its soldiers in combat a crucial edge where every second can mean the difference between life and death.

October 26, 2020