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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed that drug smugglers intent on reaching the United States will be treated the same as al-Qaida.

Veterans received letters indicating that they were behind on their VA home loan payments. The VA did not provide an explanation for the issue.

President Trump said he wants to rename the Defense Department to the Department of War, which was once the agency in charge of the Army. But a formal rebrand would require Congress.

On average, new F-35s were delivered 238 days late in 2024. A government watchdog found that the F-35 builder continues to collect “hundreds of millions” in fees despite sagging delivery times.

The new M7 rifle was dropped from a program the Pentagon designed to run independent stress tests on new weapon systems for real-world scenarios.

The Army is sending soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division and other units to the U.S.-Mexico border this fall to replace those already there.

Task force officials said 25 medics are carrying the medication, which reverses the effects of opiate overdoses. Common in civilian medicine, the drug is available for Army medics to carry on patrol.

One of the original Marine Raiders, Frank S. Wright and was bayoneted in the stomach and shot in the chest during combat across the Pacific in World War II, including at Iwo Jima.

U.S. officials released a video that appeared to show an airstrike by U.S. forces on a speedboat in waters near Venezuela that President Donald Trump said was carrying a "lot of drugs."

The first Space Force guardians will begin receiving the new service dress uniform in November.

Army officials said last month they were reviewing the Command Assessment Program, which was officially established in the last week of the Biden Administration. Now the program is officially cancelled.

"There wasn’t time to think twice," the football player said, when downed power lines sparked beneath a crashed car.

The USS Hornet was sunk in fierce fighting during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. A converted farm tractor went down with it. 

The 459th Airlift Squadron was the last unit operating the decades-old UH-1N Hueys in the Indo-Pacific.

The Navy has sent destroyers, a cruiser and an amphibious ready group with a Marine Expeditionary Unit to the southern Caribbean this month.

Jane Rathbun, the Navy’s chief information officer, is the latest official with the service to leave a senior post in a week.

The Pentagon is adding a compound found in magic mushrooms, or “shrooms,” to the panel used to test service members for drug use.

President Donald Trump floated the idea of transferring the Department of Defense to the Department of War — a title that George Washington used when he established America’s first official Army.

“We want to make sure that everyone around us, no matter how they feel about this or what they’re doing, they feel safe. That’s what we’re here for.”

The Army’s Project Flytrap gives the infantry and other troops a modular, low-cost toolkit to stop cheap drones before they strike. No lasers or million-dollar missiles required.