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16 Marines arrested after being tied to smuggling of undocumented immigrants from Mexico
Marine Corps

16 Marines arrested after being tied to smuggling of undocumented immigrants from Mexico

Motz declined to comment on what specific unit was involved (Law and Salazar-Quintero were both assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment).

Army Reserve soldier killed in severe weather incident in Virginia
Army

Army Reserve soldier killed in severe weather incident in Virginia

Our thoughts are with this soldier's loved ones.

It’s 2019 and the Pentagon only now just got around to removing racist terms from its official government forms
United States

It’s 2019 and the Pentagon only now just got around to removing racist terms from its official government forms

More than 20 years after the federal government issued guidance on how race and ethnicity should be documented on government forms, the military still hasn't gotten the memo.

SEALs fly drone near dead ISIS fighter
Navy

Booze. Coke. Hazing. Forced redeployment. What’s wrong with the Navy SEALs?

The SEALS have faced a remarkable fall from grace, yet Special Operations Command claims the problems they face are not systemic.

Possible Space A Program Changes for “Gray Area” Military Retirees
Benefits & Pay

Possible Space A Program Changes for “Gray Area” Military Retirees

US forces in South Korea only made it a month without a curfew before a soldier got drunk and stole a taxi
Army

US forces in South Korea only made it a month without a curfew before a soldier got drunk and stole a taxi

Get it together, people

CBS has cancelled infuriatingly inaccurate military drama ‘The Code’
Entertainment

CBS has cancelled infuriatingly inaccurate military drama ‘The Code’

It looks like America broke The Code, and not in a good way

Veterans: It’s on you to bridge the civil-military divide
Opinion

Veterans: It’s on you to bridge the civil-military divide

In the real world the number of jobs where run time and pull-ups are part of your performance evaluation is vanishingly small.

Meet the M1299, the new Army howitzer with twice the range of the Paladin
Army

Meet the M1299, the new Army howitzer with twice the range of the Paladin

The future of Army long-range precision officially has a name

Defense Secretary says US military ‘will be available’ to escort commercial ships passing Iran
News

Defense Secretary says US military ‘will be available’ to escort commercial ships passing Iran

"We would want to prevent the Iranians seizing or stopping a ship, certainly for any arbitrary reason whatsoever."

The Marine Corps is getting ‘a web of all-seeing eyes’ to keep watch on bases around the world
Marine Corps

The Marine Corps is getting ‘a web of all-seeing eyes’ to keep watch on bases around the world

The Marine Corps has tapped a new Silicon Valley defense firm to develop a "digital fortress" of unified surveillance systems in order to enhance the situational awareness of security forces at installations around the world

Marines may have bagged a second Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz
Marine Corps

Marines may have bagged a second Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz

The head of U.S. Central Command revealed on Tuesday that a second Iranian drone was likely downed after it approached the USS Boxer.

Green Beret with terminal cancer meets Trump to rally support for military medical malpractice reform
News

Green Beret with terminal cancer meets Trump to rally support for military medical malpractice reform

The brief talk with President Donald Trump is the most recent victory for Sgt. 1st Class Richard Stayskal as he fights to overturn a decades-old legal rule that bars service members and their families from suing the government for military medical malpractice.

Why Maverick is still a captain 30 years after ‘Top Gun,’ according to the Navy
Entertainment

Why Maverick is still a captain 30 years after ‘Top Gun,’ according to the Navy

How is it that Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is still flying combat missions in an F/A-18 Super Hornet as a 57-year-old captain after more than 30 years of service?

The Army is running a classified mission with black helicopters over Washington, D.C.
Army

The Army is running a classified mission with black helicopters over Washington, D.C.

First, America had to grapple with the 'storm Area 51' raid. Now black helicopters are hovering ominously over Washington, D.C.

No, a Navy submariner didn’t receive special liberty to clap alien asscheeks at Area 51
Mandatory Fun

No, a Navy submariner didn’t receive special liberty to clap alien asscheeks at Area 51

If it looks too good to be true, chances are it probably is

Trump says he could win the war in Afghanistan quickly, but he doesn’t want to kill millions of people
Afghanistan

Trump says he could win the war in Afghanistan quickly, but he doesn’t want to kill millions of people

"I don't want to kill 10 million people. I have plans on Afghanistan that if I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the Earth. It would be gone. It would be over in – literally in 10 days. And I don't want to do that. I don't want to go that route."

Navy identifies missing sailor who reportedly went overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln
Navy

Navy identifies missing sailor who reportedly went overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln

His fiancé Lexi Posey posted on Facebook that Monday marked the couple's 38-month anniversary. They had planned to get married in April.

The Marine Corps’s first new sniper rifle since the Vietnam War is finally ready for a fight
Marine Corps

The Marine Corps’s first new sniper rifle since the Vietnam War is finally ready for a fight

The Mk13 Mod 7 sniper rifle is finally available in both scout snipers and recon Marine arsenals

New York Times op-ed lauding the Soviet space program is Bolshevik B.S.
Russia

New York Times op-ed lauding the Soviet space program is Bolshevik B.S.

Sophie Pinkham's op-ed comes at a bad time for journalists in the US. The fact that readers may believe she is a staff writer for the New York Times will give ammunition to elected officials who want to deport journalists to Soviet-style labor camps.