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Air Force’s newest plane, the Skyraider II, honors a legendary aircraft
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Air Force’s newest plane, the Skyraider II, honors a legendary aircraft

The Skyraider II will be able to conduct close air support missions and provide armed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

Sailors direct aircraft on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 18, 2025. Nimitz is underway in 3rd Fleet conducting routine training operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Emma Burgess)
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Veterans caught up in mass federal layoffs — and the smoke hasn’t cleared

Thousands have recently been fired from federal agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, and many of them are vets.

Capt. Jesse Guerin and Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Angulo were named the Army’s best medics of 2025 after winning a competition at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
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These are the Army’s best medics of 2025

Two Army medics treated multiple patients, including a canine, dodged simulated drone attacks and rucked 60 miles at the Army’s Best Medic Competition.

Staff Sgt. Ulises Moore-Ramirez was deemed a deserter for nine years and sentenced this month for a range of crimes.
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Soldier on Army’s ‘most-wanted’ list for 9 years sentenced to prison

Staff Sgt. Ulises Moore-Ramirez, who was deemed a deserter for nine years, was sentenced for an array of crimes.

Schofield Barracks
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Army fixes barracks issue, after soldier turns to social media

The Army fixed the air conditioning in Building 356 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, which had been shut off for nearly a month, after a soldier posted about the issue on the Hots & Cots app.

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‘Cuts like these move us in the wrong direction’ — Veterans groups raise alarm in response to VA firings

Veterans groups have voiced concern about thousands of recent firings at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Air Force Capt. Theresa Ziegler
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This airman cared for a sick passenger for eight hours on an international flight

Two hours after her flight took off from Tokyo, Air Force Capt. Theresa Ziegler, learned that a passenger aboard the plane was sick, Her job as a flight nurse had prepared her for this.

Understaffing at soldier prep course led to ‘health risk’ for recruits, IG says
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Understaffing at soldier prep course led to ‘health risk’ for recruits, IG says

Officials at the Future Soldier Prep Course acknowledged staffing issues but insisted that recruits had suffered no health issues and were adding much-needed numbers to Army recruiting.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Ryan Jones, 56th Medical Operations Squadron general surgeon, out of Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., teaches Dr. Raul Alfredo Castellanos, Honduran medical student, how to properly suture the skin closed after a surgery in the operating room of the Dr. Salvador Paredes Hospital in Trujillo, Honduras, July 2, 2015. Jones is a one of a number of U.S. Air Force doctors in Honduras as part of the New Horizons Honduras 2015 training exercise. New Horizons was launched in the 1980s and is an annual joint humanitarian assistance exercise that U.S. Southern Command conducts with a partner nation in Central America, South America or the Caribbean. The exercise improves joint training readiness of U.S. and partner nation civil engineers, medical professionals and support personnel through humanitarian assistance activities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. David J. Murphy/Released)
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Supreme Court refuses, yet again, to review whether military members can sue for malpractice

A Maryland Air National Guard reservist was paralyzed in 2018 by botched back surgery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, but can't sue under the long-standing Feres doctrine.

Soldiers attached to garrison headquarters units across the Army are swapping their Army Materiel Command patches for local unit shoulder insignia.
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Here’s why garrison soldiers across the Army are swapping their shoulder patches

Under a new order, soldiers will now wear the insignia patch of their garrison commander, or their home base.

Rocket Launch
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Airman reenlists as SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts into space

The photo shows Air Force Master Sgt. Eric Burks reenlisting as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off the launchpad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

As the VA celebrates 100 years of medical research, the very people doing that job are being fired
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As the VA celebrates 100 years of medical research, the very people doing that job are being fired

Researchers working on veterans issues from mental health to burn pit exposures may see their projects ended under Trump budget cuts and a hiring freeze.

A soldier on skis carries a blue and red flag while on a snowy mountain.
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10th Mountain Division marks 80 years since cliff face victory in World War II

80 years ago soldiers scaled a sheer cliff to take a crucial mountain position. This month modern troops skied up a mountain to commemorate.

A group of people on a snowy ridge raise their arms as the Sun crests over the horizon.
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This is the moment troops in Greenland saw the sun for the first time in 3 months

The military's northernmost base, located north of the Arctic Circle in a blisteringly cold part of Greenland, doesn't see the Sun for several months each year.

United State Marines among the ruins of a house that was levelled by Marines who determined that Communists were taking refuge inside, in Hue, Vietnam, 15th February 1968. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
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Marine awarded Navy Cross at Vietnam War’s Battle of Hue remembered as ‘magnificent,’ humble leader

Some who knew Col. Myron Harrington in retired life never knew he had been a Marine, but fighting in the City of Hue, Harrington was awarded the Silver Star and Navy Cross a week apart.

A man in camouflage, goggles and smoking a cigarette holds a drone controller.
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Exploding drone operator goggles show the future of sabotage

Russian drones continue to be a threat to Ukrainian troops, so Ukraine tried an unusual attack to take out the operators piloting the drones.

A base entrance sign with the U.S. Air Force logo and the words Kirtland Air Force Base written on it.
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Airman dead in shootout at Kirtland Air Force Base

Another airman was shot in the hand in the overnight incident.

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Trump fires Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Gen. Charles Q. "CQ" Brown Jr. was removed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Friday evening, along with Adm. Lisa Franchetti, chief of naval operations, and Gen. James Slife, the Air Force’s number two officer.

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - Sgt. Robert B. Brown from Fayetteville, N.C. with Regimental Combat Team 6, Combat Camera Unit watches over the civilian Fire Fighters at the burn pit as smoke and flames rise into the night sky behind him on May 25th, 2007. Camp Fallujah has its own civilian run Fire Department to assist the Marines and Soldiers during a fire or emergency. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with Multi National Forces-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq to develop Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (Official USMC photograph by Cpl. Samuel D. Corum)(RELEASED)(RELEASED)
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Senate rejects PACT Act protections, sending ‘signal’ that benefits could be cut, vet group says

Burn Pits 360, a veteran advocacy group said while the measure isn’t directly changing PACT Act care or funding, it could “signal” larger changes to veteran benefits.

Sgt. Maj. Jim Lanham, sergeant major of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, speaks to Marines during an all-hands formation aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) while underway in the Pacific Ocean, July 26, 2017. Lanham and Col. Tye R. Wallace, commanding officer of the 31st MEU, encouraged the Marines and Sailors of the 31st MEU to continue to act as ambassadors of the Marine Corps. The 31st MEU partners with the Navy’s Amphibious Squadron 11 to form the amphibious component of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group. The 31st MEU and PHIBRON 11 combine to provide a cohesive blue-green team capable of accomplishing a variety of missions across the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Stormy Mendez/Released)
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