More from Jeff Schogol (Page 5)

Posted on Apr 1, 2025

News

Hegseth directs service chiefs to conduct ‘sex-neutral’ review of combat arms standards

Posted on Mar 31, 2025

Navy

Navy destroyer helps apprehend 13 people for border security mission

Posted on Mar 31, 2025

U.S. Marines with Marine Forces Special Operations Command conduct a raid during realistic urban training (RUT) in Lynchburg, Virginia, Mar. 19, 2025. RUT, an exercise hosted by Expeditionary Operations Training Group (EOTG), is comprised of different training scenarios that enable the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit to train as a cohesive Marine Air-Ground Task Force. EOTG trains II Marine Expeditionary Force units in preparation for upcoming deployments in support of geographic combatant commands. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kyle Baskin)

When are classified war plans neither ‘classified’ nor ‘war plans’

Posted on Mar 28, 2025

Mandatory Fun

Marine vet buys sword that slayed the lava monster in the iconic 90s recruiting ad

Posted on Mar 26, 2025

News

Troops in Stryker armored vehicles to patrol southern border

Posted on Mar 26, 2025

News

When rank-and-file troops leak secrets, they often end up in the brig

By Patty Nieberg, Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 25, 2025

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth takes a phone call before a press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 4, 2025. (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

News

‘100% OPSEC’ apparently means texting military plans to a reporter

Posted on Mar 24, 2025

Three versions of the Mariner Badge will be awarded to soldiers trained for watercraft operations.

Army

Here’s the origin of the Army’s ‘Red Wing’ design on the Mariner Badges

Posted on Mar 24, 2025

Army

The Army wants to make it easier to call Lyft and Uber on base

Posted on Mar 24, 2025

Air Force kicks off exercise named [checks notes] ‘Turbo Weasel’

Posted on Mar 21, 2025

Campaign against the Houthis will not be ‘an endless offensive,’ Pentagon says

Posted on Mar 21, 2025

Culture

‘Saving Private Ryan’ didn’t make the Army’s list of most accurate movie portrayals

Updated on Mar 20, 2025

Army

Army reveals designs for Mountaineering and Mariner Badges

Posted on Mar 19, 2025

News

Thousands of veterans could lose their jobs in massive Pentagon layoffs

Posted on Mar 18, 2025

Sgt. Adam Manibusan an infantryman assigned to 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division completes a 12-mile ruck march before testing on the final lane for the Expert Infantryman Badge at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii on April 30, 2021. After completing these events Manibusan was awarded the EIB. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Alan Brutus)

Army

The Army’s Master Combat Badges will be coming to soldiers this month

Posted on Mar 17, 2025

Marine Corps

Marine commanding officers have final say on medical shaving exemptions

Posted on Mar 17, 2025

Army

‘The air was on fire’ — Army captain recalls 2012 battle in Afghanistan

Posted on Mar 14, 2025

A Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker escorts two B1B Lancers during a training mission for Bomber Task Force Europe, May 29, 2020.

Are the U.S. and Ukraine friends again? It’s complicated.

Posted on Mar 14, 2025

History

Why Washington state used M60 tanks to prevent avalanches

Posted on Mar 12, 2025

Here are the latest military units deploying to the U.S.-Mexico border

Posted on Mar 12, 2025

Culture

The coolest part of this B-52 mission is its name: VIKING NEBULA

Posted on Mar 11, 2025

Army

More than 100 soldiers and families lost their belongings in fire near Fort Cavazos

Posted on Mar 11, 2025

Marine Corps

Historic ‘China Marines’ battalion converts into latest Littoral Combat Team

Posted on Mar 10, 2025

The Air Force is adding 21 more hours to its final field event at boot camp

Posted on Mar 7, 2025

PORT HUENEME, Calif. (Feb 27, 2025) - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) conducts a port call onboard Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Port Hueneme, Feb. 27. Fitzgerald is underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet conducting routine operations. NBVC is major shore warfighting platform; providing sustained ready forces to deploy, fight, and win. Composed of three operating facilities: Point Mugu, Port Hueneme and San Nicolas Island and home of the Pacific Seabees, West Coast E-2D Hawkeyes, 3 warfare centers and 110 tenant commands. (U.S. Navy photo by Master-at-Arms 1st Class Jon Cason)

Too close for missiles, switching to guns: How the Navy learned to fight Houthi drones

Posted on Mar 7, 2025

Air Force general says service’s newest plane could be used over the US-Mexico border

Posted on Mar 5, 2025

Navy

In 15 months, the Navy fired more air defense missiles than it did in the last 30 years

Posted on Mar 5, 2025

Army

Hal and Julia Moore’s son ‘saddened’ and ‘angered’ over Fort Benning renaming

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Posted on Mar 4, 2025

Army

Fort Moore renamed Benning, this time for a corporal who fought heroically in WWI

Posted on Mar 3, 2025

Air Force’s newest plane, the Skyraider II, honors a legendary aircraft

Posted on Feb 28, 2025

Sailors direct aircraft on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 18, 2025. Nimitz is underway in 3rd Fleet conducting routine training operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Emma Burgess)

Veterans caught up in mass federal layoffs — and the smoke hasn’t cleared

Posted on Feb 28, 2025

Army

Army fixes barracks issue, after soldier turns to social media

Posted on Feb 26, 2025

News

‘Cuts like these move us in the wrong direction’ — Veterans groups raise alarm in response to VA firings

Posted on Feb 26, 2025

This airman cared for a sick passenger for eight hours on an international flight

Posted on Feb 26, 2025

Airman reenlists as SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts into space

Posted on Feb 24, 2025

Sgt. Maj. Jim Lanham, sergeant major of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, speaks to Marines during an all-hands formation aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) while underway in the Pacific Ocean, July 26, 2017. Lanham and Col. Tye R. Wallace, commanding officer of the 31st MEU, encouraged the Marines and Sailors of the 31st MEU to continue to act as ambassadors of the Marine Corps. The 31st MEU partners with the Navy’s Amphibious Squadron 11 to form the amphibious component of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group. The 31st MEU and PHIBRON 11 combine to provide a cohesive blue-green team capable of accomplishing a variety of missions across the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Stormy Mendez/Released)

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Posted on Feb 21, 2025

Navy

Navy says it is on track to hit its highest recruiting numbers in more than 20 years

Posted on Feb 19, 2025

Kevyn Major Howard from the Vietnam War movie Full Metal Jacket

Entertainment

Remembering Full Metal Jacket’s Rafterman, and the actor who brought him to life

Posted on Feb 18, 2025

VA investigates, veterans affairs employee with El Paso, Texas VA who called veteran and left voicemail that prompted an investigation.

News

A Marine vet thought he found a ‘home’ working at the VA. Now he’s one of 1,000 fired.

Posted on Feb 14, 2025

Soldiers engage targets with a pair of high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) during a live fire event in Bemowo Piskie, Poland, May 19, 2023.

US drifts away from Ukraine nearly 3 years after Russia’s invasion

Posted on Feb 14, 2025

Navy

Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and merchant vessel collide near Egypt

Posted on Feb 13, 2025

Air Force says delay in test cycle for 35,000 airmen shouldn’t impact promotions

Posted on Feb 12, 2025

Students in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL class 279 participate in a surf passage exercise during the first phase of training at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. Surf passage is one of many physically strenuous exercises that BUD/S class 279 will take part in during the seven weeks of first phase. The Navy SEALs are the maritime component of U.S. Special Forces and are trained to conduct a variety of operations from the sea, air and land.

Navy

Navy SEAL candidates often swim in water with high levels of fecal matter, watchdog finds

Posted on Feb 12, 2025

Army

Hegseth indicates that Fort Bragg will not be the last base to be renamed

Posted on Feb 11, 2025

U.S. Marines with 1st Marine Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, await transport with an ultra-light tactical vehicle, during Marine Air-Ground Task Force Distributed Exercise (MDMX) at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Feb. 10, 2024. The Marines with 1st Recon began MDMX by conducting a tactical night insertion into an austere environment. MDMX is a maneuver exercise that incorporates ground, air, and logistics operations over several days. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Sean Potter)

News

$571 million in VA spending on suicide prevention isn’t working, vets groups say

By Patty Nieberg, Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 10, 2025

Trump nixes Gaza deployments, but Forever Wars continue

Posted on Feb 7, 2025

Army

Trump takes credit for Army recruiting surge, but it started a year ago

Updated on Feb 6, 2025

The new secretary of Veterans Affairs is an Air Force chaplain and Iraq War veteran

Posted on Feb 4, 2025

Army

Police arrest man for allegedly stealing 3 Humvees from Army Reserve Center

Posted on Feb 4, 2025

The ‘gig line’ is back in the Air Force even if you didn’t know it ever left

Posted on Feb 3, 2025

Army

Army Black Hawk pilot killed in mid-air collision remembered as a ‘volunteer patriot’

Posted on Feb 1, 2025

Army

Army identifies two of three Black Hawk crew members killed in collision with airliner

Posted on Jan 31, 2025

The guided missile destroyer USS Spruance sails in front of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during a transit of the Singapore Strait, Aug. 15, 2024.

30,000 migrants to GITMO, drone sightings (re)explained, and more

Posted on Jan 31, 2025

Army

No survivors expected after Army Black Hawk helicopter and passenger plane collide in DC

By Nicholas Slayton, Jeff Schogol

Updated on Jan 30, 2025

Air Force one-star general fired for ‘inappropriate personal relationships’

Posted on Jan 29, 2025

Air Force shaving waivers will soon expire under new policy

Posted on Jan 28, 2025

News

Trump’s overhaul of military continues with orders on transgender troops and DEI

Posted on Jan 28, 2025

News

Troops booted from military for refusing COVID-19 vaccine can return with back pay and benefits

Posted on Jan 28, 2025

Soldiers from the 97th Military Police Brigade, and 41st Engineering Company, Fort Riley, KS., work along side with U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Hidalgo, TX., port of entry, applying 300 meters of concertina wire along the Mexico border in support of Operation FAITHFUL PATRIOT November 2, 2018. Soldiers will provide a range of support including planning assistance, engineering support, equipment and resources to assist the Department of Homeland Security along the southwest border. (U.S. Air Force photo by SrA Alexandra Minor)

Army

Here are the first Army and Marine Corps units heading to the border

By Jeff Schogol, Matt White

Posted on Jan 24, 2025

‘This is just the beginning’: Pentagon enters Trump 2.0

Posted on Jan 24, 2025

Air Force planes will fly deportation flights under Trump order

Posted on Jan 23, 2025

Two officers were fired for bucking their chain of command. Now they’re going to work at the Pentagon.