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THE NAME ON THE HULL
The Navy is discussing taking Doris Miller's name off a carrier and putting the president's on
On December 7, 1941, Mess Attendant Second Class Doris Miller of the USS West Virginia manned an anti-aircraft gun he had no training on, is credited with hitting at least one attacking plane, and dragged wounded sailors to safety. He became the first Black sailor awarded the Navy Cross. The carrier CVN-81, now under construction, was named for him during the first Trump term — the first carrier ever to carry the name of an enlisted sailor, or of a Black one. Per CNN's reporting, which the Navy has not confirmed, leadership is now discussing renaming the ship, possibly for the president. The gun mount at Pearl Harbor was not Miller's assignment either; he took it anyway.
The Army secretary resigns over the firing of the generals, and the four names he refused to strike
Dan Driscoll resigned as Secretary of the Army on August 31, effective September 3, eighteen months into the job. The White House gave no reason. His resignation, per the reporting, raised his concern with the firing of the generals responsible for Army transformation and readiness; the friction traces in part to a one-star promotion list — two Black men and two women, approved by the Army's own boards — that Driscoll declined to strike names from. The names came off anyway, from above him; that entry is in the Service Ledger below, dated March 27.
Fired without cause after thirty-five years, the admiral is now on a November ballot
Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore commanded the Navy Reserve until August 22, 2025, when she was fired on the same day as the Defense Intelligence Agency's director and the SEALs' commanding officer, no reason given. On June 23 she won the Democratic runoff in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District. Her removal is on this page's left rail; her name is on the November ballot.
The troops' paper lost its editor, its publisher, its ombudsman, and its rules
Stars and Stripes has reported to the troops since 1861, under protections that kept the Pentagon out of its newsroom. In January 2026 the Pentagon struck those protections from the Code of Federal Regulations without notice or comment and installed an active-duty captain over the paper; in April it fired the ombudsman whose job was defending the newsroom; on August 21 it handed separation notices to the editor-in-chief and the publisher. This page holds the door until the troops' own paper answers to its readers again.
The terms of service as they are lived, newest first. 5 entries follow.
Jun 2026 · The same intervention reached the Navy: women and Black officers struck from a promotion list. The boards that put them there exist to rank service; the strike-throughs came from above the boards. GV Wire
Mar 27, 2026 · The Secretary of Defense removed four Army officers — two Black men and two women — from a one-star promotion list the promotion boards had already approved. NPR
Oct 2025 · A third of military families hold less than $3,000 in savings. The households doing the deploying are the ones a missed check reaches first. CNN
Oct 2025 · A quarter of active-duty families experience food insecurity, per the Military Family Advisory Network; in the shutdown month, demand at the Armed Services YMCA's twenty-two food banks near installations rose thirty percent. The Hill
Oct 15, 2025 · The shutdown reached the troops' payday. The Pentagon moved funds to make the October 15 payroll for roughly 1.3 million active-duty, Guard, and Reserve personnel; the paychecks of the federal civilians in the same households stopped. WHRO
Set in the type traditionally reserved for honor rolls. Nobody in uniform is a target here or anywhere in this paper; hard words go to institutions. Everything above is the public record, and every line links to it. Verified 2 September 2026; the terms move, and this page moves with the next sweep.
The Military Wire
The service’s news off the gathered wire, newest first. Headlines and excerpts belong to the outlets that wrote them; every item links back.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned early last week at one of the busiest moments for the service since the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The White House has confirmed that Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is resigning. The move comes after months of friction between him and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Marine veteran and former CIA officer Elliot Ackerman joins with analysis.