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The Navy has hit a new low by firing an aircraft carrier captain who was trying to save his crew from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

After years in the making, the Marine Corps has finally started fielding the next-generation Plate Carrier Generation III body armor to lighten the load for grunts in the field

Dr. Jonathan Yates caused the veteran severe pain and numbness, and temporarily incapacitated him by cracking his neck before molesting him, according to the criminal complaint.

John Gaultier kept treating his fellow soldiers even after German shrapnel hit him in the thumb and foot.

“Now that’s how you send out one of the greatest captains we ever had!”

“Dismissing a commanding officer for speaking out on issues critical to the safety of those under their command discourages others from raising similar concerns,” lawmakers said.

The Navy has fired USS Theodore Roosevelt Capt. Brett E. Crozier, who wrote a March 30 memo that the majority of the ship’s crew should be placed in individual quarantine amid COVID-19 concerns

The Navy is still conducting urinalysis, but it's making some exceptions to limit the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

A train engineer at the Port of Las Angeles was arrested on Tuesday after he deliberately derailed a train and crashed it near the Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy over his suspicions that the ship was part of sinister government takeover

The latest assessment of the possible death toll is now way beyond that.

"We are at war," Gen. Mark Milley said. "It's a different type of war, but a war nonetheless."

Over the next 10 years, the Marine Corps plans to shrink from about 186,000 to roughly 170,000 active-duty Marines.

World War II veteran William Lapschies, among the first Oregonians known to have the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), has been declared free of the virus

'We’ll restart as soon as we’re comfortable and the commanding general down there is comfortable with doing so'

A classified assessment from U.S. intelligence agencies has reportedly concluded that China worked to conceal the exact scope of its novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak from the rest of the world

The cause of Tech. Sgt. Nicholas A. Vogler's death is under investigation.

Bill Kelly made it through the Great Depression, and served in the Pacific theater of World War II. And on March 17, the 95-year-old Oregon veteran tested positive for COVID-19, which he promptly kicked the crap out of.

Classic.

The Air Force is letting commanders deviate from grooming and fitness standards in response to COVID-19, though shaving standards will remain in place.

The number of veteran patients who have died from complications due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) tripled over the weekend from 9 to 27 deaths, according to data released by the Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday.