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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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FILE - In this March 12, 2020 file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro givesa press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. When hints of a cross border conspiracy staged from Colombia to raid military bases and ignite a popular rebellion that would end in Maduro’s arrest surfaced in March 2020, Venezuelan state media portrayed it as a Bay of Pigs redux ginned up by the CIA. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

OPEC leader Venezuela now seeking gasoline from Iran

Venezuela, which sits on the largest proven oil reserves in the world, is celebrating the arrival of a small flotilla of Iranian tankers bearing gasoline in violation of U.S. backed sanctions.

May 26, 2020
In this March 14, 2014, file photo, a U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II makes a flyby after an unveiling celebration takes place at Luke Air Force Base for the delivery of the first F-35A fighter jet, in Glendale, Ariz.  The U.S. Air Force has selected National Guard bases in Alabama and Wisconsin as homes for new F-35A fighter squadrons. Air Force officials announced Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, that Truax Field Air National Guard Base in Wisconsin and Dannelly Field in Montgomery, Alabama are the preferred locations for the squadrons.   (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Designer: Trump vision for U.S.-made F-35 doable

President Trump wants to base the production line of the F-35 Lightning II entirely in the United States and a retired Air Force general who played a key role in designing the multi-role combat aircraft said the idea isn't as far-fetched as critics make it out to be.

May 19, 2020