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New year, new uniforms

A retired officer whose leadership helped save soldiers and Marines pinned down by North Vietnamese fighters in 1967 received the third-highest award for valor on Friday for his heroism more than five decades ago

The Air Force refused to bomb the porta-potty because notion that it posed a threat was "ludicrous," a defense official told Foreign Policy.

"We are not satisfied with flat-lined suicide death numbers."

The number of armed private security contractors in Afghanistan has increased considerably since President Donald Trump took office, according to a review of Pentagon statistics.

"I don't think the White House staff said: 'Hey, we can get a war going in Venezuela. It will throw manure on your trail.'"

Approximately 3,750 fresh U.S. service members will deploy to the the southwest border provide additional support to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol personnel, the Department of Defense announced on Sunday.

President Donald Trump may be eager to withdraw U.S. troops from distant battlefields in Syria and Afghanistan, but he won't rule out sending them back into the fight in the event that ISIS and al-Qaeda rear their ugly heads

A Navy judge presiding the case of a Navy SEAL accused of committing war crimes in Iraq in 2017 has ruled that performing a reenlistment ceremony over the corpse of an enemy fighter doesn't constitute a war crime under the Uniform Code of Military Justice

The three Americans who thwarted a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015 were granted French citizenship on Thursday during a special naturalization ceremony in California

"The White House nominated him for rear admiral upper half (2-star) and re-submitted the nomination to the 116th Congress in Jan. 2019."

President Donald Trump is doubling down on his claim that he fired former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who resigned in protest over the president's decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria

The latest assessment of JLTV the Pentagon's operational testing and evaluation arm released on Thursday indicates that the Army's current vehicles "are not operationally suitable because of deficiencies in reliability, maintainability, training, manuals, crew situational awareness, and safety"

A C-5M Super Galaxy strategic transport aircraft landed with its nose landing gear up at Travis Air Force Base ini California on Thursday evening, an Air Force spokesman told Task & Purpose.

U.S. Army Recruiting is hoping to ramp up its appeal to the youth of America — and what better way to do that than release an absolute banger?

"If there is to be an arms race it is Russia's actions that have undermined the global security architecture and has undermined this particular arms control agreement."

Across the military it's clear that suicide is still a very serious problem.

The Pentagon has not yet the deployment because it is still determining which units will be sent to the border, a U.S. official told Task & Purpose on Thursday.

The Army has issued a formal call for industry partners to send in their prototypes for the Next Generation Squad Weapon program, a major step towards finally testing out a replacement for the M4 carbine and M249 squad automatic weapon

"What we're not seeing is all of our programs, our response system that we put in place, our prevention efforts, they're not translating into the behavior change we need cadets and midshipmen to have in order to stop this."