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Dan Lamothe

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Military affairs @washingtonpost. State-school alum @UMassJournalism & @merrillcollege. Straight outta Chicopee, MA. Grateful American. Signal: danlamothe.30

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1Feb 5, '25Have verified that this memo circulating from West Point is real. H/T @PeterLucier52.6×4.1M19k6.1k4k
2Aug 29, '24In a new, official statement, the Army is defending its staff member who found herself in a confrontation with Trump campaign employees at Arlington National Cemetery:45×3.5M14k3.8k634
3Feb 11, '25NEW TONIGHT: Dozens of American students at a U.S. military installation in Germany walked out of their middle school on Tuesday as part of protests aimed at an official visit by D38.5×3M39k5.5k1.2k
4Oct 15, '25Turned in the badge today. My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues. Danlamothe.3031.1×2.4M16k1.4k362
5Feb 13, '25SCOOP: The Hegseth team at the Pentagon invited far-right activist Jack Posobiec on its first overseas trip, alarming numerous defense officials24.1×1.9M8.7k2.2k658
6Sep 26, '25SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior 24.1×1.9M4.3k670423
7Jul 7, '23A "clap-out" for Gen. David Berger today at the Pentagon as he wraps up a four-year tour as commandant of the Marine Corps.19.1×1.5M7.7k62353
8Sep 25, '25EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Co15.8×1.2M3.6k1.1k442
9Feb 2, '25To the right in this photo is Capt. Rebecca Lobach. She's a helicopter pilot who died in the collision Wednesday between a Black Hawk and American Eagle Flight 4352 over D.C., kill8.4×656k3.6k531329
10Jan 6, '21BREAKING: The entire D.C. National Guard will be activated today, putting about 1,100 guardsmen on duty tonight, defense official tells me. Comes after breach of Capitol by pro-Tru8.4×016k4.8k129
11Mar 24, '25Noting for the record that it appears: 1) @JeffreyGoldberg did *NOT* publish any classified plans despite likely receiving them 2) Did *NOT* publish anything at a time that it woul7.7×598k16k2k499
12Sep 30, '25Reached out to retired Gens. Chiarelli, Milley and McKenzie in regard to @PeteHegseth citing them as the kind of leaders he wants "out" of the Pentagon. Chiarelli responds that he 7.6×593k8.8k1.3k355
13Jan 20, '25Gen. Mark Milley responds to Biden pardoning him with this statement: "My family and I are deeply grateful for the President’s action today. 1/x7.4×578k15k1.3k231
14Feb 23, '25Hi Kingsley. Nice to touch base here. It has been difficult to get a hold of your team, as we all know. Please explain: When is the last time that multiple members of the Joint Chi7.3×571k2.9k51372
15Dec 5, '24This basic description also applies to Lloyd Austin, Jim Mattis, and Chuck Hagel.6.9×538k4.7k484100
16Oct 28, '19U.S. official confirms that the working dog wounded in the Baghdadi raid is ok. I said: "What's the dog's name?" Source said: "It's classified." I said: "Really?" Source said: "Yes4.8×010k1.7k64
17May 27, '17Army Spc. Etienne Murphy died Friday in a vehicle rollover in Syria. He was 22, and a member of the elite 75th Ranger Regiment. RIP.4.3×06.4k3.3k0
18Jan 12, '21The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the leaders of each branch of the U.S. military, weigh in on the insurrection at the Capitol in this new memo:4.2×06.8k2.5k264
19Jul 26, '25Can confirm the New York Times report today that Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, the director of the Joint Staff, had a promotion to four-star general seemingly secured and then pulled back4.2×325k4.8k1.3k233
20Mar 6, '22A senior U.S. defense official just released an updated assessment of the war in Ukraine as of early Sunday evening in Washington. Basic updates:3.9×08k2k434
21Apr 16, '20This is Chief Petty Officer Charles Robert Thacker Jr. He is the USS Theodore Roosevelt sailor who died of covid-19 this week. He tested positive for the coronavirus on March 30. T3.9×07.3k2.4k25
22Feb 24, '25Gen. CQ Brown signs off with a graceful message on LinkedIn:3.9×302k6.1k1.2k222
23Aug 3, '19The Army confirms that Glen Oakley, interviewed by CNN below near the El Paso Mall, is indeed a soldier and member of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss. I share this because t3.8×07.7k2.3k94
24Jul 14, '19This is Sgt. Maj. James G. Sartor. He was killed by small-arms fire in Afghanistan on Saturday, July 13 while deployed with 10th Special Forces Group. Between Iraq and Afghanistan,3.7×06.7k2.1k21
25Jan 8, '20This is Nawres Hamid. He is the American killed in the Dec. 27 attack in Iraq that spiked tensions between the U.S. and Iran. He worked as an interpreter for U.S. forces. He was a 3.4×06.8k2.1k60
26Jan 21, '25Rumors are true: Adm. Linda Fagan, commandant of the Coast Guard, has been ousted by the Trump administration. News went out in a message to all members of the service this morning3.3×256k2.6k1k145
28Aug 27, '21As names and ages roll in on some of the U.S. service members killed in Kabul, we are reminded how much young men and women in uniform, often in their teens or early 20s, do for ou3.1×08.3k1k19
29Oct 14, '22A senior U.S. official expressed exasperation to me about the Starlink situation in Ukraine involving @elonmusk. Musk “dangles hope over the heads of millions, then sticks the DoD 3.1×05.2k1.5k199
30May 3, '25"Two airliners abandoned landing attempts at Washington’s Reagan National Airport on Thursday afternoon when an Army Black Hawk took a “scenic route” near the flight path and circl3.1×239k2.6k981166
32Apr 29, '25Fact check: The Women, Peace, and Security Act was enacted in 2017, during the first Trump administration. Among its supporters were Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz.2.9×222k3.6k898196
35Feb 9, '20This is Sgt. 1st Class Javier Jaguar Gutierrez, 28, and Sgt. 1st Class Antonio Rey Rodriguez, 28. They are the two U.S. Special Forces soldiers killed in Afghanistan on Saturday. R2.6×03.9k1.8k20
36Oct 12, '19U.S. forces say Turkey was deliberately ‘bracketing’ American troops with artillery fire in Syria. That’s not something we ever would have done to a partner force," Army officer sa2.6×03.5k2.2k58
37Mar 16, '22A background briefing about the Russian war on Ukraine with a senior U.S. defense official has just concluded. It’s Day 21 of the invasion, and there are a few significant updates:2.2×04.8k1k226
38Mar 9, '22Pentagon will deploy two Patriot missile defense batteries to Poland, U.S. military says in statement tonight. They include not only the missiles, but powerful radar designed to sp2.2×04.7k1.1k66
39Mar 21, '20"Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it,” said one intelligence offici2.1×03.3k1.5k69
40Jan 21, '21SCOOP: The Army falsely denied for days that Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, the brother of disgraced conspiracy theorist Michael Flynn, was involved in its heavily scrutinized response to2.1×03.1k1.6k87
41Jun 3, '20A member of the Pentagon's Defense Science Board, James Miller, has resigned his position, telling @EsperDoD that he believes the Pentagon chief violated his oath to the U.S. Const2.1×03.7k1.5k39
42Feb 26, '22A Saturday morning background briefing with a senior U.S. defense official about the war in Ukraine just concluded. First takeaway: Russian reconnaissance troops are now in and nea2.0×04.4k963135
43Mar 14, '22A background briefing at the Pentagon about the Russian war on Ukraine just finished. It’s Day 19 of the war. Basic takeaways:2.0×04.2k982259
44Jul 1, '19I have placed specific, on-the-record questions with the Defense Department today, including for an estimate of how much the 4th of July celebration will cost in taxpayer money. I 2.0×02.9k1.4k13
45Jan 3, '18Sgt. 1st Class Mihail Golin, 34, moved to the United States in 2004 from Latvia, and joined the Army a few months later. He was on his fourth combat deployment when he was killed M1.9×03.1k1.3k1
46Mar 10, '20This is Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo and Capt. Moises A. Navas. They are the Marine Raiders who were killed Sunday during an operation on an Islamic State mountain hideout in Iraq. 1.9×03.4k1.2k12
47Mar 18, '18Save a thought today for Mohammad Fawad Mohammadi, a former Afghan interpreter who helped the U.S. military. He was attacked by a man in Oregon with a car, prompting an amputation.1.8×02.3k1.7k11
48Jul 5, '20This is Army Spc. Vincent Sebastian Ibarria. He died in Afghanistan's Farah province in a vehicle rollover yesterday, the Pentagon just announced. He was 21 years old, and on his f1.8×03.8k89714
50Feb 24, '22Just back from background briefing with a senior U.S. defense official. Important details that the Pentagon is seeing about the assault on Ukraine:1.8×03.2k997209
51Mar 25, '19Amid an avalanche of news today, I can't help but think that the death of Jeremy Richman in Newtown deserves more attention.1.7×03.5k1k8
52Aug 13, '18This is Sgt. 1st Class Reymund R. Transfiguracion, 36. He was killed yesterday in Afghanistan's Helmand province by an IED explosion. Bio just released by the Army says he was born1.7×02.7k1.2k6
53Aug 22, '19This is Army Special Forces Master Sgt. Luis F. Deleon-Figueroa, 31, who shared my hometown of Chicopee, MA. He and Master Sgt. Jose J. Gonzalez, 35, of La Puente, CA, were killed 1.7×03.1k9216
54Feb 21, '22Vladimir Putin's speech right now is calling for a redrawing of European boundaries that go back generations.1.6×03k97242
55May 24, '20I met Ian McConnell in Afghanistan. I was an embedded journalist, and he was an EOD tech. When I got into my first firefight, Ian checked on me afterward to see how I was doing. Ki1.6×03.9k64917
56Dec 31, '18A farewell message from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who departs his office this evening.1.6×02.5k1.1k33
57Mar 1, '22At the Pentagon, a Tuesday morning background briefing about the war in Ukraine with a senior U.S. defense official has concluded. Important updates:1.6×03.1k832150
60Sep 5, '21These troops died in a helicopter crash at sea on Aug. 31, Navy says today. From top left: Lt. Bradley Foster, 29 Lt. Paul Fridley, 28 Naval Air Crewman 2nd Class James Buriak, 31 1.5×03.2k70214
61Nov 9, '19I'm on a plane bound from Honolulu to Dallas. The pilot just notified passengers that we will be traveling with the remains of a U.S. veteran who fought in the Korean War.1.5×03.5k49916
62Mar 3, '21For days, the Army denied that Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn was on a call in which senior Army officials raised concerns about the optics of having the National Guard respond to the atta1.5×02.4k1k39
63Dec 3, '18This is Army Sgt. Jason McClary. He died Sunday in the military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries suffered in a Nov. 27 bomb blast in Afghanistan that killed three other 1.4×02.8k8336
64May 21, '21Your newest Medal of Honor recipient, Col. Ralph Puckett:1.4×04.1k30712
65Nov 17, '22U.S. Army announces this morning a new contract with Lockheed Martin to boost HIMARS ammo production in light of the war in Ukraine.1.4×03.9k34827
66Apr 3, '20Your might be having a tough day in public relations when the great grandson of Teddy Roosevelt weighs in on your organization's decision.1.4×02.5k95846
67Mar 7, '22A background briefing with a senior U.S. defense official for Monday about the war in Ukraine has concluded. Some takeaways:1.4×02.8k669173
69Oct 28, '19Confirmed with a second source: As of this morning, at least, the dog's name is classified. Mind you, the dog's name is not "Classified." But it's classified.1.3×02.8k51819
70Nov 25, '18This is Army Sgt. Leandro Jasso, 25, a member of the elite 75th Ranger Regiment who was mortally wounded in Afghanistan's Nimroz province this weekend. RIP. More details to come he1.3×02.3k7764
72Aug 15, '21On Monday, the Washington Post published a scoop that U.S. intelligence officials had revised their assessment of Afghanistan to say that Kabul could fall in 90 days. Some said it 1.3×02.7k58073
74Feb 23, '18There is some info available about Robert Mueller's time in the military and Vietnam specifically, but much of it is second-hand. So I went to the @USNatArchives and @USMC to see w1.2×01.9k9390
75Apr 12, '22NEW: @OMarkarova, Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, met last week with officials from @GeneralAtomics, maker of Reaper and Predator drones. General Atomics says it has unm1.2×02.7k51245
76Feb 25, '22Out of a background briefing this morning with a senior U.S. defense official. Notable updates about the war in Ukraine:1.2×02.8k498112
77Dec 24, '19This is Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael James Goble, 33, a member of the 7th Special Forces Group who died in Afghanistan on Monday of injuries suffered on Sunday in Kunduz province. H1.2×02.4k6393
78Apr 5, '19*Scream overheard from Pentagon*1.2×02.2k63221
80Mar 22, '22A background briefing with a senior U.S. defense official about the Russian war on Ukraine just concluded. It’s Day 27 since the Russian invasion. Here are some takeaways:1.1×02.4k537128
82Feb 28, '22A fresh push toward Kyiv came to a smoking end in the suburb of Irpin, where videos posted online showed the charred remains of Russian tanks and armored vehicles strewn around the1.0×02.3k53249
83Apr 15, '22The Russian warship Moskva was hit by two Ukrainian Neptune missiles, prompting its sinking, a senior U.S. defense official just told me and a handful of other reporters at the Pen1.0×02.5k39324
86Jan 9, '20SCOOP: An Army general has denied the request of Maj. Matt Golsteyn to have his Special Forces tab reinstated, following @realDonaldTrump's decision to pardon him in a murder case 1.0×01.9k58814
93Apr 24, '22"A clandestine network of railway workers, hackers and dissident security forces went into action to disable or disrupt the railway links connecting Russia to Ukraine through Belar0.9×02.2k43031
94Dec 18, '18Someday, one of these rats will learn how to cook, run a restaurant kitchen in secret, impress a highly acclaimed food critic against all odds, and then be celebrated as a genius. 0.9×02.3k3454
95Sep 8, '22Ukrainian forces have hit more than 400 targets with HIMARS, to "devastating effects," Gen. Mark Milley says during press conference in Germany at tail end of meeting of senior def0.9×02.2k36419

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