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Master Sgt. Roy Benavidez is a certified badass.

He threatened to castrate a staff member, told a female Marine that he would prefer his daughter working as a prostitute than serve as a pilot, and he spread a rumor about a female Marine officer, whom he believed filed a complaint that cost him his job

A former member of SEAL Team 1 in San Diego has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for child molestation on Tuesday, which comes on top of a previous federal sentence of 27 years he's currently serving for manufacturing child porn in Virginia.

"The coalition that we're building in the Arabian Gulf and specifically in the Strait of Hormuz is going to be a 80- or 90-percent coalition effort. A much smaller U.S. effort is primarily focused on providing intelligence support to the rest of the coalition."

The Corps is finally testing a new gadget designed to unify control over a Marine's many rifle-mounted accessories into a single, easy-to-use system so grunts don't have to take their hands off their rifle in the middle of an operation

If this exodus is not effectively addressed, our ability to fight from the air could be critically compromised in a way that will take decades from which to recover

The Pentagon has identified the two soldiers who died in Afghanistan on Monday in an apparent insider attack.

The two special operators are accused of assaulting Special Forces Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar, who died as a result.

According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the U.S. Army's 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade that had a major problem: it simply couldn't find enough soldiers to get the job done

Maverick just feels the need for speed — and the need to express it as inappropriately as possible

The Navy's Region Legal Service Office in San Diego hosted an award ceremony on July 10 in one of its courtrooms for four attorneys and four legal support staffers involved in the Gallagher case.

"The truth is Gen. Hyten is innocent of these charges," Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) said at Hyten's confirmation hearing on Tuesday. "Sexual assault happens in the military. It just didn't happen in this case."

If it's an expensive next-generation weapon system, chances are a U.S. military official will at some point compare it to the iPhone

"The work conducted by our military personnel reduces the number of CBP agents required to perform a variety of tasks so that those agents may instead focus primarily on their law enforcement functions."

Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class Slayton Saldana was reported overboard on July 17. Search and rescue efforts ended on July 19.

U.S. Army Master Sgt. Jonathan J. Dunbar was killed alongside British Army Sgt. Matt Tonroe, a member of Britain's elite Special Air Service Regiment, during a March 2018 capture-or-kill operation that targeted a senior ISIS leader near Manbij, Syria

Our nation owes these two service members a debt that can never be repaid.