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U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Joshua Watson, the executive officer of Lima Co., 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment (Reinforced), Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 23, watches MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft land during Exercise Southern Jackaroo 23 in Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland, Australia, July 6, 2023. Southern Jackaroo is a trilateral exercise with MRF-D, Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, and Australian Defence Force, with Republic of Korea observers, working together to achieve fire, maneuver, and communications interoperability objectives. Watson is a native of Woodbridge, Virginia. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Brayden Daniel)
Marine Corps

Marine officer honored for leadership in aftermath of chaotic Osprey crash

By Matt White

Posted on Mar 4, 2025

Disabled Army veteran fired from the VA will attend Trump speech to Congress
Army

Disabled Army veteran fired from the VA will attend Trump speech to Congress

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 4, 2025

Hal Moore and wife Julia Moore
Army

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

Jeff Schogol Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 4, 2025

Fort Benning
Army

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

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 3, 2025

An airman at a podium speaks in the background, a crowd of seated airman watching.
News

Transgender troops say Pentagon is causing chaos with sudden policy reversal

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Mar 3, 2025

Kyle Lewis speaks during a VoteVets digital town hall.
Navy

A Navy vet was given ‘weeks to live’ in 2020. Now his cancer treatment is at risk.

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 3, 2025

Two helicopters sit on the deck of an aircraft carrier, mountains in the background.
Navy

Navy carrier group visits South Korea after the North tests new missiles

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Mar 2, 2025

Rear Adm. Michael Wosje, commander of Carrier Strike Group ONE, dons his flight suit in the Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 113 paraloft before his 1,000th trap flight aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) during Pacific Steller 2025, Feb. 16. The 1,000th trap is a milestone in any senior aviator’s career. Pacific Steller 2025 is a multi-large deck event with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, French Carrier Strike Group, and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, fostering our alliances and maritime security in support of a secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nate Jordan )
Navy

This Navy admiral just bagged his 1,000th landing on an aircraft carrier

By Matt White

Updated on Mar 2, 2025

Black and white aerial footage showing a car driving down a road, explosions behind it.
Middle East

US strike kills military leader of Hurras al-Din in Syria

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Mar 1, 2025

Two soldiers face away from the camera, overlooking a foggy ground with barbed wire in the background.
Army

Stryker Brigade Combat Team, additional troops, ordered to southern border

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Mar 1, 2025

The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and U.S. Army Fort Campbell re-enlists 124 soldiers to continue to serve our country. Stay tuned for more event coverage this week! (Photos by SPC Harris, 101st Division Public Affairs Office)
Army

Veterans fired in federal layoffs say they were ‘stabbed in the back’

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 28, 2025

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

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

By Jeff Schogol

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)
The Pentagon Rundown

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

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 28, 2025

Capt. Jesse Guerin and Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Angulo were named the Army’s best medics of 2025 after winning a competition at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Army

These are the Army’s best medics of 2025

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 27, 2025

Staff Sgt. Ulises Moore-Ramirez was deemed a deserter for nine years and sentenced this month for a range of crimes.
Army

Soldier on Army’s ‘most-wanted’ list for 9 years sentenced to prison

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 27, 2025

Schofield Barracks
Army

Army fixes barracks issue, after soldier turns to social media

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 26, 2025

Doug Collins
News

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

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 26, 2025

Air Force Capt. Theresa Ziegler
Air Force

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

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 26, 2025

Understaffing at soldier prep course led to ‘health risk’ for recruits, IG says
Army

Understaffing at soldier prep course led to ‘health risk’ for recruits, IG says

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 25, 2025

U.S. Air Force Maj. Ryan Jones, 56th Medical Operations Squadron general surgeon, out of Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., teaches Dr. Raul Alfredo Castellanos, Honduran medical student, how to properly suture the skin closed after a surgery in the operating room of the Dr. Salvador Paredes Hospital in Trujillo, Honduras, July 2, 2015. Jones is a one of a number of U.S. Air Force doctors in Honduras as part of the New Horizons Honduras 2015 training exercise. New Horizons was launched in the 1980s and is an annual joint humanitarian assistance exercise that U.S. Southern Command conducts with a partner nation in Central America, South America or the Caribbean. The exercise improves joint training readiness of U.S. and partner nation civil engineers, medical professionals and support personnel through humanitarian assistance activities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. David J. Murphy/Released)
Air Force

Supreme Court refuses, yet again, to review whether military members can sue for malpractice

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 25, 2025

Soldiers attached to garrison headquarters units across the Army are swapping their Army Materiel Command patches for local unit shoulder insignia.
Army

Here’s why garrison soldiers across the Army are swapping their shoulder patches

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 25, 2025

Rocket Launch
Air Force

Airman reenlists as SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts into space

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 24, 2025

As the VA celebrates 100 years of medical research, the very people doing that job are being fired
News

As the VA celebrates 100 years of medical research, the very people doing that job are being fired

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 24, 2025

A group of people on a snowy ridge raise their arms as the Sun crests over the horizon.
Space Force

This is the moment troops in Greenland saw the sun for the first time in 3 months

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 23, 2025

United State Marines among the ruins of a house that was levelled by Marines who determined that Communists were taking refuge inside, in Hue, Vietnam, 15th February 1968. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
Marine Corps

Marine awarded Navy Cross at Vietnam War’s Battle of Hue remembered as ‘magnificent,’ humble leader

By Matt White

Posted on Feb 23, 2025

A man in camouflage, goggles and smoking a cigarette holds a drone controller.
Ukraine

Exploding drone operator goggles show the future of sabotage

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 22, 2025

A base entrance sign with the U.S. Air Force logo and the words Kirtland Air Force Base written on it.
Air Force

Airman dead in shootout at Kirtland Air Force Base

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 22, 2025

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News

Trump fires Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 22, 2025

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - Sgt. Robert B. Brown from Fayetteville, N.C. with Regimental Combat Team 6, Combat Camera Unit watches over the civilian Fire Fighters at the burn pit as smoke and flames rise into the night sky behind him on May 25th, 2007. Camp Fallujah has its own civilian run Fire Department to assist the Marines and Soldiers during a fire or emergency. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with Multi National Forces-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq to develop Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (Official USMC photograph by Cpl. Samuel D. Corum)(RELEASED)(RELEASED)
Afghanistan

Senate rejects PACT Act protections, sending ‘signal’ that benefits could be cut, vet group says

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 21, 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)
The Pentagon Rundown

There’s a lot going on in the world of military news, and we need your help

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 21, 2025

An X-37B onboard camera, used to ensure the health and safety of the vehicle, captures an image of Earth while conducting experiments in a highly elliptical orbit in 2024. As part of the X-37B's seventh mission, the vehicle executed a series of first-of-its-kind maneuvers, called aerobraking, to safely change its orbit using minimal fuel. (U.S. Space Force Courtesy Photo)
Air Force

US military releases first photo from orbit from its mysterious space plane

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 21, 2025

Navy Capt. Dave Snowden has been relieved as the commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Harry. S Truman.
Navy

Commander of USS Harry Truman relieved a week after collision with merchant ship

By James Clark

Posted on Feb 20, 2025

A Tuskegee Airman describes an air-to-air dogfight in 'Wings For This Man,' a 1945 Army-produced film on the unit narrated by Ronald Reagan.
Air Force

Ronald Reagan narrated a short film in 1945 about the Tuskegee Airmen

By Matt White

Updated on Feb 20, 2025

New York Air National Guard Senior Airman Caleb Lapinel left) checks the map with another Soldier will participating in the international course conducted annually by the Brazil Jungle Warfare Center, known as CIGS for its Portugese initials, as an instructor looks on. Lapinel was the only American in the class of ten.( Courtesy Photo)
Air Force

Welcome to the jungle: Meet the New York Guardsmen who took on Brazil’s infamous jungle warfare school

By Matt White

Posted on Feb 19, 2025

Navy recruiting
Navy

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

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 19, 2025

Soldiers watch a sunrise during Eager Lion, a multilateral exercise in Jordan, Sept, 13, 2022.
News

If common mental health issues are labeled ‘incompatible’ with service, advocates fear troops will ‘go underground’

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 19, 2025

Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group receive flood victims arriving at the Big Sandy Regional Airport in Debord, Kentucky, Feb. 17, 2025. The evacuees were airlifted aboard Kentucky and Indiana Army National Guard helicopters from housing complexes in Martin County, Kentucky, that were surrounded by floodwaters. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Kyle Goins)
News

In a single day, National Guard troops in Kentucky airlifted 296 people trapped by floods

By James Clark

Posted on Feb 18, 2025

Syria
Middle East

US strike kills a senior official of an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 17, 2025

Aircraft fly ahead of several aircraft carriers and other ships in a deep blue sea.
Navy

This is what it looks like when you have 3 aircraft carriers from 3 countries at sea

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 15, 2025

Coast Guard Cutter 2024
Coast Guard

Coast Guard hit with data breach, impacting pay for more than 1,100 members

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 15, 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.

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 14, 2025

U.S. Army Reserve Master Sgt. Larry Sanders, the senior command career counselor for the 7th Mission Support Command, discusses career paths available in the Army Reserve with cadets from the Kaiserslautern High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, part of Veterans' Week. The 7th MSC maintains relationships with area schools and stays involved with extracurricular activities to showcase the Citizen - Soldier lifestyle. The 7th Mission Support Command is the U.S. Army Reserve presence in Europe. Comprised of 26 units across Germany and Italy, the 7th MSC provides logistical and sustainment resources in support of U.S. Army Europe - Africa missions across the theater. For more stories and information on the 7th Mission Support Command, connect on Facebook @7thmsc. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt 1st Class Jessica Forester)
United States

‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ ‘Kite Runner’ among books being reviewed over ‘ideology’ concerns at on-base military schools

By Patty Nieberg

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.
The Pentagon Rundown

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

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 14, 2025

Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Meyers (center) began his career in the Army Reserve (left) and completed an enlistment in the Navy Reserve (right).
Military Branches

Soldier, sailor and now airman: This NCO has served in three branches in 12 years

By Matt White

Posted on Feb 13, 2025

USS Harry S. Truman
Navy

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

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 13, 2025

An Alaska Army National Guard CH-47F Chinook assigned to 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment, operates Feb. 2, 2025, at the Whitehorse airport, Yukon Territory, Canada. The Chinook crew supported the repair of a 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk that had rescued two victims of a Jan. 26 ultralight plane crash near Faro, Yukon Territory. (Photo courtesy of Simon Blakesley)
Air Force

Alaska rescue units had a hell of week: 3 planes, 2 countries and 1 stuck helicopter

By Matt White

Posted on Feb 13, 2025

Air Force promotions
Air Force

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

By Jeff Schogol

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

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 12, 2025

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA - FEBRUARY 29: Images of cells dividing, on the walls at West Coast Fertility Centers, photographed February 29, 2024, in Fountain Valley, CA. (Photo by Jay L. Clendenin/for The Washington Post)
United States

Pentagon says it will cover travel costs for military families’ IVF treatments

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 11, 2025

Fort Bragg
Army

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

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 11, 2025

U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II aircrafts, assigned to the 115th Fighter Wing, Wisconsin Air National Guard, being prepared for the morning flight during Sentry Savannah 25-1, at the Air Dominance Center, Savannah Air National Guard Base, Georgia, Jan. 21, 2025. Sentry Savannah is the Air National Guard’s premier fourth- and fifth-generation fighter integration exercise, with this year’s event involving more than 1,000 participants and 56 aircraft from eight flying units. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Xaviera Stevens)
Air Force

Airmen say ‘people first, mission always’ is falling by the wayside in DEI crackdown

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 11, 2025

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visits Joint Task Force North, U.S. Northern Command, to see the efforts military men and women are undertaking in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to secure the southern border at Fort Bliss, Texas, Feb. 12, 2025. U.S. Northern Command is working together with the Department of Homeland Security to augment U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the southern border with additional military forces. This initial deployment of 1,600 active-duty personnel brings the total military Title 10 forces along the border to nearly 4,000 personnel. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Andrew R. Sveen)
Military Branches

Pentagon orders immediate hold on gender-affirming care for transgender troops

By Matt White

Posted on Feb 10, 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

A headshot of a Marine in full dress, with the American flag behind him.
Marine Corps

Marine killed in Philippines plane crash identified

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 9, 2025

A side-by-side composite of two mugshots. On the left is a woman on the right is a bearded man.
Army

Two charged in murder case of 101st Airborne soldier

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 8, 2025

Elementary school students sit around multiple tables in a classroom.
News

Department of Defense tells its schools ‘do not use’ certain lessons

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 8, 2025

Soldiers render honors during a ceremony marking the change of command for the Georgia Army National Guard in which Maj. Gen. Dwayne Wilson relinquished command to Brig. Gen. Jason Fryman.
News

Majority of troops and military families believe large-scale war is on the horizon, survey finds

By Joshua Skovlund

Posted on Feb 7, 2025

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, assigned to the 122nd Fighter Wing, performs a sortie above the 122nd Fighter Wing in Fort Wayne, Indiana, May 3, 2024. The F-16, originally from Holloman Air Force Base, executed a routine flying pattern for training. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Halley Clark)
Air Force

How a broken part in a jet engine’s ‘blind spot’ brought down an Air Force F-16

By Matt White

Posted on Feb 7, 2025

Pentagon Rundown
The Pentagon Rundown

Trump nixes Gaza deployments, but Forever Wars continue

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 7, 2025

Actor Anthony Mackie, who plays Captain America, flies as the passenger of a tandem freefall jump with an Air Force pararescue tandem master at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
Air Force

Air Force PJs welcomed the new Captain America with a freefall jump

By Matt White

Posted on Feb 6, 2025

Local Marines fold flags for Lance Cpl. Joe Jackson’s family during his funeral May 4 at Tahoma Cemetery. Jackson was killed April 24 by an improvised explosive device blast in Afghanistan.
Marine Corps

US Marine, 3 Pentagon contractors die in Philippines plane crash

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 6, 2025

BOSTON, MA - SEPTEMBER 11: April Mach, a pharmacist at Angell Animal Medical Center, empties a prescription bottle of opioid painkillers that she filled for a patient at the pharmacy inside the facility in Boston on Sep. 11, 2018. In a sign of the desperation behind the drug epidemic, many veterinarians believe that more pet owners are using their cats and dogs as a ploy to obtain opioids for themselves. The problem extends far beyond Angells busy hospitals in Jamaica Plain and Waltham. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to veterinarians about administering opioids, urging them to use pain-relief alternatives when possible and be vigilant for signs of misuse. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
News

Two medications often prescribed together by the VA led to higher mortality risk, study finds

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 6, 2025

Two of three newly opened 3D-printed barracks at Fort Bliss, Texas, Jan. 29, 2025. Lt. Gen. David Wilson, deputy Army chief of staff, G-9 (Installations), and Sgt. Maj. Michael Perry, his senior enlisted adviser, joined 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss Garrison leaders for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony. They are the first 3D-printed structures to comply with the Defense Department’s updated Unified Facilities Criteria, a mandate updated annually that provides construction guidance DOD-wide and now reflects standards for additive manufacturing, or 3D-printed, facilities.
United States

Fort Bliss gets a glimpse into the future with 3D-printed barracks

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 6, 2025

Army Basic Combat Training
Army

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

By Jeff Schogol

Updated on Feb 6, 2025