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The three-week-long outbreak at Joint-Base San Antonio-Lackland comes two months after the Department of Defense ended its flu vaccine mandate.

Two Marines who served heroically in Vietnam and an Army officer who used his body to shield a soldier in Afghanistan received the award.

The officers will join a new Reserve unit called the Navy Innovation Unit. Officials are planning to begin direct commissioning new officers in fiscal year 2027.

Ukraine’s drone campaign against Russian logistics is a preview of what U.S. forces could encounter in future conflicts.

Bloody and under fire in Vietnam, he led his men to safety 60 years ago. On Thursday, he will receive the Medal of Honor.

"The system rewards how orders are written over the duty actually performed, and members can serve almost full-time yet keep falling through the cracks on housing and health care."

“These Airmen were more than coworkers. They were friends, mentors, teammates and valued members of our Edwards and Air Force family.”

Former Army Staff Sgt. Jesse Bussey disappeared in September 1996 while stationed in Germany. He was later convicted in absentia of a series of attacks on fellow soldiers.

In the past year, roughly 4,000 soldiers took part in the program, which keeps experienced troops in one place during high school years.

“We see this proposed cut as another way to try to get after something that some people think is rated too high,” one veterans advocate said.

A 2025 accident was the fourth time since 2022 that a design flaw known as "nozzle binding" in the Air Force's newest, high tech tanker played a role in a refueling accident.

The service has commissioned another batch of tech executives who will be joining the service as lieutenant colonels in the Army Reserve.

“Initial indications are that the crash was not survivable," the 412th Test Wing said in an afternoon update on the incident.

Thousands of sailors on several Navy warships have deployed in the last 18 months as part of the mission at the southern U.S. border.

“Every day I got one step closer to being that better version of myself.”

The HIRAIN exercise, part of joint National Guard and active-duty Army drills, saw members of the Guard quickly fly in in the weapon, fire it and escape.

President Donald Trump said he authorized "the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade” as Iran and Pakistan confirmed the deal.

Contract documents show the Navy plans to fly P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance planes from the island for several months this year.

The pilot, from Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, safely ejected.

Africa Command sent medical, communications and security personnel to Lakipia Air Base in Nanyuki, but the troops will not provide frontline health care.