Category: Military

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WBAL.com
A female midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy has died after her roommates found her unconscious and not breathing in her bed.

The service academy says the first-year student was pronounced dead at Anne Arundel Medical Center a short time …

WBAL.com
It’s homecoming day for 120 Maryland National Guard soldiers who have been away for the last year.

This afternoon, members of Company C, 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment of the Maryland National Guard will return to their headquarters at the …

WBAL TV
An antimissile system that could protect commercial airlines from handheld missile fire was unveiled at BWI Thurgood Marshall airport on Wednesday.

The system was developed and tested by Northrop Grumman. The company said it will protect planes from …

WBAL.com
Quartermasters with the Baltimore County Police Department became aware of a higher demand on ammunition as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and planned accordingly.

Bill Toohey with the department says their supplier was giving the priority …

Baltimore Sun
Some of the first Fort Monmouth, N.J., employees to be transferred to a Maryland installation, taking over the fort’s responsibilities, are scheduled to move this summer.

The Press of Atlantic City reported that by Friday, 221 Fort Monmouth workers …

Examiner
A Virginia company won a $370 million contract to build the new home of defense information at Fort Meade.

“The contract award is the first tangible step in the Base Realignment and Closure transformation at Fort Meade,” Army Col. Kenneth …

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Baltimore Sun
A series of explosions at the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground today rattled dishes and startled residents from Perry Hall to Middletown, Del., 30 miles away.

“The entire house shook,” said Joseph MulQueen, who called The Sun from his …