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The bill would amend federal tax codes and take away taxes paid on troops’ performance and enlistment bonuses.

The Army pointed to its retention of 800 more soldiers than its original goal for fiscal year 2025 as a reason for the changes.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are already posted at the gates of Camp Pendleton, California, and they will also be sent to Marine Corps Base Hawaii and Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.

EPIC CRAB 2025 involved explosive ordnance disposal technicians from the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and Republic of Singapore.

The 3rd Infantry Division is experimenting with specialized teams that focus on drones and electronic warfare, in order to test out the Army’s plan for fighting the next ‘big war.’

The Defense Department will conduct a comprehensive review of the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 “to ensure that accountability for this event is met.”

The rescuers spent three hours extracting four workers from inside a collapsed industrial water tank who had fallen 40 feet when the structure’s roof collapsed.

Posts on social media indicate the incident took place on Friday afternoon before soldiers with the 6th Ranger Training Battalion took part in a private festival in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

Three soldiers died and dozens were wounded in the attack, many with traumatic brain injuries and concussions, when an Iranian drone destroyed a housing unit at the Jordan outpost.

The new film will likely take audiences back to Vietnam and show the moments that made Rambo the traumatized Green Beret he became in “First Blood.”

Previous attempts at a military parade in the nation’s capital have been met with concern that heavy Abrams tanks would tear up Washington, D.C.’s roads.

The newly designated MV-75 is meant to eventually replace the Army’s H-60 Black Hawk helicopters, including in special operations missions.

Airmen have until close of business on May 19 to apply for a selective retention bonus. This year’s fiscal program is ending more than four months early.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. military may get a new fighter jet, which he called the F-55, as long as it comes in at the right price.

Teri and Patrick Caserta lobbied for the Brandon Act after their son died by suicide while in the Navy, but they say they are afraid that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is not prioritizing the changes it laid out.