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Navy

A Navy F/A-18F came home from Iran with ‘Sub Buster’ markings

The Navy fighter/bomber is not designed to take on submarines, but it may have been involved with strikes on Iranian subs docked in ports.

Army

Trump approves firing squad for the execution of the 2009 Fort Hood shooter

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the execution method to President Donald Trump, who approved the use of it on Nidal Hasan.

News

Army grounds fleet of AH-64Es for second time in three months

An Army official said the service is grounding about 400 helicopters, more than half of its AH-64 fleet.

Army

Hundreds of soldiers transfer to newly created jobs in robotics and space

10 warrant officers were the first in the Army to graduate as the new 390A Robotics Technicians MOS, while hundreds joined the 40D space operations field.

News

Soldier awarded Purple Heart from drone attack in first days of war

Army Reserve Lt. Col. Robert J. Connolly dedicated the award to six fellow soldiers killed in the same drone attack in the first hours of Operation Epic Fury.

Air Force

Air Force pulls bombers from RAF Fairford after security incident

The decision to pull U.S. bombers from the British base comes a week after several people were arrested on suspicion of plotting terrorist action.

Marine Corps

Marine arrested on suspicion of killing a Japanese woman in Okinawa

The Marine Corps said it is “actively cooperating” with authorities after a lance corporal was arrested Saturday night.

Navy

USS George HW Bush stops in Thailand after leaving the Middle East

The aircraft carrier quietly left the Central Command area of operations in recent days, leaving the USS George Washington as the only carrier currently in the Middle East.

Iran

Pentagon increases combat pay as war with Iran continues

Troops can now earn $450 per month in hostile fire pay and as much as $275 per month in imminent danger pay, the first increase since 2002.

Air Force

Air Force authorizes new berets for explosive ordnance techs

The new rust-colored headgear for explosive ordnance disposal techs will be the Air Force's seventh authorized beret.

Military Branches

Multi-million dollar TRICARE fraud bought a gold-plated Cybertruck and casino parties

A mental health clinic owner used active duty service members, veterans and military families in a scheme that billed TRICARE $26 million.

News

Troops will get a day off to vote or register for November elections

Commanders have less than two weeks to implement the directive.

National Guard

National Guardsman arrested in DC for carrying pistol without permit

The guardsman told police during a traffic stop that his firearm was registered in his home state of Oklahoma.

Air Force

Florida deputy acquitted in trial over shooting of Air Force special ops airman

Florida sheriff's deputy Eddie Duran faced manslaughter charges after he shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson in 2024 at the airman's off-base apartment.

Marine Corps

Navy sending aircraft carrier to Middle East with extra food and supplies

The USS Theodore Roosevelt is sailing with “significantly more” food and supplies than the USS Abraham Lincoln carried, in part due to damage to a logistics base in Bahrain.

News

New fitness standards will be checked in Inspector General reviews

To meet Hegseth-ordered "accountability,"  Navy and Marines say Inspectors General will continue to review fitness test and Air Force IGs may soon start.

Education

The military education benefits you may be overlooking — and how to make the most of them

Jai Salters, a former enlisted sailor, now a lieutenant commander in the Navy, walked us through the benefits he used to earn multiple degrees, while still being able to transfer his GI Bill to his kids.

Air Force

Return of the Blackbird? Clues emerge that an SR-71 might fly again

NASA engineers appear to be planning to once again kick the tires and light the fires of the baddest airplane to ever fly.

News

Bomber crews need better food on the flight line, says celebrity chef Robert Irvine

“The flight line is more of a food desert than the base as a whole because access to a broad food selection is necessarily curtailed because of the logistics and hours of operation,” a retired crew chief said.

Army

Army says nearly all soldiers have now taken new cognitive test for brain injuries

All soldiers must take the cognitive test once. Soldiers in high-risk jobs like field artillery and explosive ordnance disposal will get annual assessments.