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Marine Corps

This former Marine gunnery sergeant live-streamed himself inside the Capitol during the riot

"There’s no way they can hold us back.”

National Guard

National Guard members forced to sleep in parking garage following Biden inauguration

"It's fucked up because it just shows how politicians really feel about the National Guard."

Army

The Army is testing a piece of SOCOM’s ‘Iron Man’ suit for its next-generation squad weapon

The system is designed to enhance soldier's aim by stabilizing their weapon's barrel against unnecessary movement.

Army

Retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin confirmed as your next defense secretary

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

Air Force

Engine failure, pilot error behind deadly Air Force E-11 plane crash in Afghanistan

The crash occurred on Jan. 27, 2020, in Afghanistan's Ghazni Province.

Army

Former Army captain arrested after he posted videos of himself storming the Capitol

He livestreamed video of himself storming the Capitol.

Air Force

‘This is a game-changer’ — Air Force to allow longer braids, ponytails, bangs for women

"To think we don’t have to have headaches every day anymore?"

Army

Army cav scout arrested for allegedly plotting with ISIS to ambush fellow soldiers

He told the FBI that "if his Army unit was involved in combat with ISIS fighters, he would betray his unit and join the ISIS fighters."

Air Force

Air Force colonel who called suicide a ‘chickensh-t way to go’ has been nominated to become a 1-star

“Let me say that my choice of words was poor."

Army

3 New York National Guardsmen killed in helicopter crash

Honor the fallen.

Navy

Trump pardoned ace Navy pilot, TOPGUN instructor who took $2 million in bribes

He resigned from Congress in 2005 after pleading guilty to corruption charges.

Navy

Navy captain relieved due to loss of confidence in ability to command

He has been temporarily reassigned from Navy Operational Support Center Knoxville, Tenn. to Reserve Component Command Southeast Jacksonville, Fla.

United States

Joint Chiefs to troops: Biden is your next commander-in-chief. Deal with it

"To disrupt the Constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values, and oath: it is against the law."

Army

Sgt. Maj. Angel Macias, a founding member of Delta Force, dead at 80

"SGM Macias exemplified the Special Forces ethos."

Navy

Navy SEAL vet explains his video praising Capitol Hill insurrection: ‘Americans had finally stood up and made their voices heard’

'Maybe this is a good thing.'

Air Force

30 years after Desert Storm, an Air Force general says we’ve forgotten the lessons that made it so successful

"War is violence. Any politician that sends people into war is sending people into violence."

Navy

Former Navy SEAL bragged about taking part in Capitol riots in now-deleted Facebook video

"I am not a traitor."

Navy

The ‘QAnon shaman’ guy got kicked out of the Navy for refusing a vaccine

Somebody didn't read their Oath of Enlistment.

Opinion

Opinion: Veterans who stormed the Capitol should lose their federal benefits

Those who dared to enter the building by force or threat of violence should have every one of their federal benefits stripped immediately.

Army

He went AWOL from the Army and fought ISIS with the Kurds. Now he’s under arrest for threatening Trump supporters

“I’d like to get out of here after Inauguration Day."