The Association for Military Journalists
MRE board member Sig Christenson writes:
A Pentagon call to shutter more bases Thursday drew concern and outright opposition, but leaders in San Antonio and elsewhere in Texas say the state likely would win big if a new closure round is ordered. [Read more...]
MRE board member Sig Christenson reminds us of the price we’ve paid in fighting two wars as photographer Kin Man Hui and he spent a night at Lackland Air Force Base as a medical evacuation flight landed there. Christenson also thought a great deal about the people there at the base who have helped our warriors begin to recover from their wounds. Even those who haven’t deployed are veterans in some ways. Here’s a look at their war. [Read more...]
Co-founder and board member of MRE, Sig Christenson, recently interviewed Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer.
COLUMBIA, Ky. – In this tranquil slice of Kentucky where a long, winding strip of Highway 61 was named for Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer, folks praise him as a good country boy. [Read more...]
By MRE board member Sig Christenson
San Antonio-Express News
The new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, had a message for journalists at last week’s Millitary Reporters & Editors Conference in Arlington, Va. [Read more...]
You often hear people in the military say they fight for our freedom.
There’s a nice ring to that, of course, but it isn’t always true. Sometimes, the military as an institution fights harder to do as it pleases than it does to preserve your First Amendment rights. [Read more...]
AWOL soldier is facing three counts, and more could come.
By Sig Christenson
sigc@express-news.net
A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted an AWOL soldier in connection with a plot to strike GIs in the Killeen area. [Read more...]
Maybe an hour had passed since I filed our first blog on last Sunday’s story, “The War Within,” when a new report on military suicides came out. [Read more...]
By Sig Christenson
Board member, co-founder and former president
In the beginning, a few people drinking beers talked about making a difference.
The idea was a group that could help young military reporters learn a rich and complex beat without making all the mistakes some of us had. The idea was a group that could lobby the Pentagon to ensure reporters would be able to cover the coming war in Iraq. The idea was a group that also tried to educate the public about military issues. [Read more...]
The revelation that an officer and NCO ordered Pvt. Lance Aviles to erase two videos he made of the Nov. 5, 2009, mass shooting at Fort Hood is a stunner at many levels. [Read more...]
By Sig Christenson - Express-News, and MRE board member
KILLEEN — Ordering a soldier to erase cell-phone videos of a mass shooting at Fort Hood could be a crime, two former military lawyers said Saturday. [Read more...]
