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The 21st century military shouldn’t work and train like the 19th century

Fair winds and following seas

Troops won't have to worry about losing extra leave they have racked up during the COVID-19 travel restrictions

The military hasn’t fully implemented those programs, GAO found, and DoD isn’t keeping good track of its efforts overall. That’s a problem, because cybersecurity is a group effort.

What the fuck did I just read

C.R.E.A.M.

The Army is eyeing a pair of new suppressors as part of its much-anticipated Next Generation Squad Weapon program

As the U.S. military continues to battle the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) within the ranks, America's adversaries appear poised to take advantage of the tumult

The soldier spent 49 days in isolation

The Iranians are back at it again.

Nearly 700 sailors assigned to the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle's naval group have tested positive for the coronavirus, the armed forces ministry said on Wednesday

Former Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly is currently in quarantine, along with two of his staff, following his ill-fated April 5 visit to the USS Theodore Roosevelt in Guam, Task & Purpose has learned

A Navy veteran who was the subject of a months-long domestic terrorism investigation reportedly planned on bombing a hospital due to his fears over the government's response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to court documents

Some fear that civilian control over the military is dangling by a thread of very long hair.

The victim told deputies that she saw A1C Michael Leary watching her while shopping and following her around the store

“A lot of people are going through a lot of problems with the [coronavirus] ... I just thought this would add a little humor or something to the whole thing.”

Hopefully we’ll come to recognize more forms of courage than just “going downrange,” and it turns out even your grocer has some.

In "Radio Commander" you play as the commander of an infantry unit, bravely leading your men into battle... from inside a tent with a radio.

So that's something

Haircuts are part of the military discipline that allowed the Marines to defeat the Japanese at Iwo Jima, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.