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Two helicopters sit on the deck of an aircraft carrier, mountains in the background.
Navy

Navy carrier group visits South Korea after the North tests new missiles

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group arrived in South Korea only days after Pyongyang carried out its fourth missile test this year.

Rear Adm. Michael Wosje, commander of Carrier Strike Group ONE, dons his flight suit in the Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 113 paraloft before his 1,000th trap flight aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) during Pacific Steller 2025, Feb. 16. The 1,000th trap is a milestone in any senior aviator’s career. Pacific Steller 2025 is a multi-large deck event with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, French Carrier Strike Group, and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, fostering our alliances and maritime security in support of a secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nate Jordan )
Navy

This Navy admiral just bagged his 1,000th landing on an aircraft carrier

Rear Adm. Michael Wosje joined the Navy's 'Grand Club' of about 400 pilots with 1,000 landings on an aircraft carrier. The record is over 2,000.

Black and white aerial footage showing a car driving down a road, explosions behind it.
Middle East

US strike kills military leader of Hurras al-Din in Syria

The attack on a top commander of the al-Qaeda affiliate occurred last week, but was only announced this weekend.

Two soldiers face away from the camera, overlooking a foggy ground with barbed wire in the background.
Army

Stryker Brigade Combat Team, additional troops, ordered to southern border

The infantry vehicle unit, as well as support helicopters and seven sustainment units, will bolster thousands of troops already there.

The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and U.S. Army Fort Campbell re-enlists 124 soldiers to continue to serve our country. Stay tuned for more event coverage this week! (Photos by SPC Harris, 101st Division Public Affairs Office)
Army

Veterans fired in federal layoffs say they were ‘stabbed in the back’

“It feels like getting stabbed in the back,” said one veteran fired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who was three weeks away from having a permanent position.

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

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)
The Pentagon Rundown

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.
Army

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.
Army

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
Army

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.

Doug Collins
News

‘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
Air Force

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
Army

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)
Benefits & Pay

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.
Army

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
Air Force

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
Veterans

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.
World War II

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.
Military Life

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)
Vietnam War

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.