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The Army hospital’s policy states that patients can request a chaperone and staff will try to honor it. Advocates say it should be mandatory for all sensitive exams.

"We don't train to do it inside a fog bank," said one of the rescue pilots after the crew of guardsmen faced rough winds and poor visibility to reach a woman on a cruise ship 100 miles from shore.

The Coast Guard and other troops boarded the M/T Centuries after it departed Venezuela. It’s the second tanker seized this month.

The return to the base at Manta comes a month after Ecuadorian voters rejected a measure to allow the reopening of foreign bases.

The recently launched effort to boost resilience in the “spiritual domain” is already canceled.

The Department of Defense once again promised it will achieve a clean audit in 2028.

The large-scale ground and air campaign against multiple ISIS sites comes in response to last weekend's attack that killed two US soldiers.

Combat roles in the Marines have had gender-neutral requirements since 2015. A new policy will extend that rule to annual fitness test scores.

“People are pissed,” a military spouse said. “They're like, ‘oh, of course, Congress doesn't give an F about us.’”

Sgt. Maj. Keith Platt explains why he stopped a paratrooper in a widely seen video whose static line was across his neck. His lesson: “If something isn’t right, say something.”

An Inspector General report found leaking sewage, broken AC, and fire hazards in housing for soldiers deployed to the southern border in July.

“Screaming through your diaphragm, you pretty much save your vocal cords,” the Marine Corps’ Drill Instructor of the Year for 2025 said.

Iranian-made attack boats, missiles, drones, and Hezbollah-linked networks have given Venezuela a small but real combat capability in the Caribbean - and a new way for Tehran to poke at the United States.

The Army is calling for proposals to privatize and modernize how basic training recruits and advanced individual trainees go to chow.

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Perryman said he foresees enlisted sailors making barracks repairs “kind of how you would normally do if it was your own house.”

All medical shaving waivers issued to airmen and Space Force guardians before March 1 will be invalid as of Jan. 31, 2026

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Perryman said the service may follow Army efforts at privatization, but must consider the impact on culinary specialists, the Navy’s cooks.

The Chrysler TV-8 was meant to be an amphibious, futuristic armored vehicle capable of fighting in — and powered by — the Atomic Age.

Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar were killed on Dec. 13 in Palmyra, Syria.

The 357th Fighter Squadron is saying goodbye to the “last of the dragons” as the A-10 Warthog winds down its time in service.