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US Military Struggles to Weed Out Members With Far-Right Ties

Agence France-Presse

   WASHINGTON - The arrest of a U.S. soldier with far-right sympathies who
   is suspected of plotting an attack on American soil to spark "chaos"
   has highlighted a challenge for the Pentagon: purging its ranks of
   extremists.

   Jarrett Smith, a private in the U.S. Army based at Fort Riley in
   Kansas, was arrested and charged in federal court with one count of
   distributing information related to explosives after offering a
   detailed explanation to an undercover FBI agent.

   Smith also expressed interest in targeting members of the leftist group
   Antifa and heading to Ukraine to fight with a far-right paramilitary
   group, the FBI says.

   But he is hardly the first U.S. soldier to reveal far-right or
   ultra-nationalist leanings -- and some fear the U.S. military is being
   used as a training ground by extremist groups.

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