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The inside story of the deadliest attack on a U.S. military base during the Iraq War
Damning investigation into USS Bonhomme Richard fire reveals sailors were totally unprepared
There’s a good reason why this Air Force general only wears 3 ribbons on his dress uniform
A county in Oregon wants to call in the National Guard to deal with all their illegal pot farms
What that one scene in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ teaches us about complaining in the military
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The Marine Corps’s first carrier-based F-35 squadron is officially ready for combat
Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, known as the “Black Knights,” has achieved initial operational capability
We salute this heroic military working dog for taking out the gunman who pinned his team down during a fierce firefight
A British military working dog who risked life and limb to take out an enemy gunman pouring fire on his team in Afghanistan has received the highest award an animal can receive for actions in combat
Obama gave Adm. McRaven a gift after the SEALs took out bin Laden: A tape measure
'Seriously, Bill?' Obama recalled himself joking to the admiral. 'All that planning and you couldn't bring a tape measure?'
US military aircraft readiness rates are in the toilet. Here’s how bad the situation is
A lot of U.S. military aircraft have fallen short of their readiness goals for the better part of a decade, including America's arsenal of fighter jets, according to a new government watchdog report
A Navy destroyer just shot down an ICBM target for the first time
A Navy destroyer shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile target for the first time on Tuesday in a historic missile defense test
The Navy is experimenting with using drones to resupply ballistic missile submarines
The Navy recently used an unmanned aerial vehicle to deliver an unknown payload to the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Henry M. Jackson at sea
Marine veterans say sinking amphibious assault vehicles are ‘death traps’ following deadly accident
A sinking Marine Corps amphibious assault vehicle is a "death trap" because of how hard it can be to get everyone out alive, Marine veterans said after a deadly incident this summer
Russia just released footage of its new hypersonic anti-ship missile in action
The Russian Ministry of Defense on Wednesday offered a first look at a new hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile being fired from a warship
The US Army thinks these new mixed-reality ‘doggles’ can make special operations canines better than ever in battle
Once this technology is operational, "a handler could sit a mile away in a bunker, completely safe, and they can send the dog out and send these very specific directional cues to the dog,"
The US military is quietly killing terrorist leaders in Syria with its secret missile packed with swords
The U.S. military has been quietly taking out terrorist leaders in Syria with a modified Hellfire missile packed full of swords
This Green Beret lost his leg in combat. Then he became an elite sniper
"I don't know people on the planet have the kind of resilience he does."
This Green Beret lost his leg in combat. Then he became an elite sniper
"I don't know people on the planet have the kind of resilience he does."
A former Navy fighter pilot describes one of the most terrifying moments of his career
Fighter pilots who go through the U.S. Navy's elite air-combat training center commonly known as TOPGUN are among the best in the world, but that doesn't mean they don't experience fear
The Navy’s ‘Top Gun’ aviators have to cough up $5 if they quote the film, according to a former instructor
At the Navy's Fighter Weapons School, a decades-old institution more commonly known as Topgun, students and staff can be fined for various infractions
Trump says he wanted to assassinate Syria’s president but Mattis stopped him before he could ‘take him out’
President Donald Trump said on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday that he wanted to "take out" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after the 2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack in Idlib, Syria, but Jim Mattis, then his secretary of defense, objected
The Navy scrapped plans to fly a fighter jet over New York City on the anniversary of 9/11 after it sparked outrage
The Navy cancelled its plan to conduct flight training over New York City on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks after it sparked outrage
‘I was instantly furious’ — Marine vet and Gold Star widow blasts Trump after seeing photo of him at her husband’s grave in Arlington
A Marine Corps veteran and Gold Star widow sharply criticized President Donald Trump after seeing a photo of him at her husband's grave in Arlington National Cemetery
China has major shipbuilding advantage over the US — and that may give it the edge in the next big war
China has an edge over the United States in shipbuilding, and it could give the country an advantage in a protracted conflict in which both sides see heavy losses at sea
Trump has vowed to save Stars and Stripes after the Pentagon moved to cut its funding
President Donald Trump decided Friday to continue funding the US military's editorially-independent newspaper Stars and Stripes, backtracking on his own administration's plans to end a paper that has been providing troops, veterans, military families, and civilians with news for decades
The Air Force is testing a new fragmenting alternative to cluster bombs
The U.S. Air Force recently conducted operational tests of the new BLU-136 Next-Generation Area Attack Weapon, a fragmenting bomb intended to leave behind less unexploded ordnance and kill fewer civilians than controversial cluster munitions
Insane video shows Russian fighters flying dangerously close to a B-52 bomber
A pair of Russian fighters conducted an "unsafe and unprofessional" intercept of a US B-52 Stratofortress bomber over the Black Sea Friday, the US Air Force said in a statement Saturday.
Former Navy TOPGUN instructor: AI that beat human pilot in simulated dogfight would have ‘crashed and burned’ in real world
An artificial intelligence algorithm absolutely destroyed a seasoned U.S. fighter pilot last week in a simulated dogfight, a result some observers say was to be expected
Satellite photo appears to show Chinese submarine using secretive underwater cave at South China Sea base
A Planet Labs commercial satellite managed to capture a rare photo this week of a Chinese submarine at what observers believe is the entrance of a secretive undersea cave at a strategically important naval base
Iran unveils new ballistic missile named after general killed in US drone strike earlier this year
Iran on Thursday unveiled a new intermediate-range ballistic missile named after Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander who was killed in a U.S. drone strike earlier this year
This is what it’s like to spend your days firing 3,000 rounds a minute as a helicopter door gunner
Gunnery Sgt. Daniel Fitzgerald is a seasoned crew chief with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing's "Gunrunners" (HMLA-269) who has served for 12 years, and he has what a number of Marines say, in part because of some of the perks, is "one of the best jobs" in the Corps.
