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A rule that required boots to be 8 inches tall in the heel will now be reduced to 6 inches after airmen found that boots in smaller shoe sizes were often too short.

After twenty years and billions of dollars, littoral combat ships are finally performing mine countermeasures as originally planned.

Air Force special operations commandos practiced seizing airfields in the Caribbean as the Navy amassed ships in the region.

All three suffered “nozzle binding” events when the tanker’s fuel probes got stuck in fighter planes during refueling.

The Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment has been testing whether first-person view drones laden with explosives can penetrate enemy armor.

Pvt. Andrey Okunev died on Friday after being injured on the rifle range. He and his fellow soldiers were slated to graduate next month.

Maj. John "Lucky" Luckadoo flew 25 bombing missions over Europe during the war, surviving some of the most intense air battles of the war. He became an advocate for the 100th Bomb Group's history.

Hanks was set to be honored this month at West Point. The group presenting the award says it's focusing instead on training cadets.

The 300 guardsmen from Georgia are being sent to relieve some of the approximately 2,300 National Guard troops already active in the nation's capital.

The 10 stealth fighters will deploy in the wake of the Navy sending seven ships and a submarine to southern Caribbean waters, where the U.S. bombed a civilian boat this week.

A report by the New York Times details a complex and risky operation in 2019 to spy on North Korea's leader that ended when the SEALs aborted the mission, killing three fishermen who had stumbled across them.

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."