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Even after more than a decade, bad guys in the Marvel Cinematic Universe haven't figured out anti-air combat.

The USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is currently drilling with French and Japanese ships and planes in a show of force projection in the Pacific.

The Coast Guard Pay and Personnel Center’s Direct Access service is down until Feb. 19 as a result.

Marine veteran Andrew Lennox, who was let go Thursday, said, “I feel like someone from outside of our family is trying to tell us how to run it and telling me I don’t belong, and that’s really angered me.”

“Without this guidance, you cover your butt but you interpret it how you interpret it,” said one librarian at a Defense Department-run school.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said it is unrealistic for Ukraine to join NATO. The remarks come as Russia continues fighting despite enormous losses while Ukraine faces a manpower shortage.

Staff Sgt. Robert Meyers has served in three different military branches, with stints in the Army and the Navy reserves before the Air Force.

There are no reports of flooding or injuries aboard the Navy's USS Harry S. Truman after a collision with merchant vessel near Egypt.

Units from the Alaska Air National Guard, Army Guard and active duty all pitched in to respond to three plane crashes, an avalanche victim and a long-distance recovery of one of their own helicopters.

Originally scheduled to take place from Feb. 15 to April 15, the staff sergeant promotion testing cycle will now run from March 3 to May 1.

Naval Special Warfare Command rarely moves water training events for Navy SEAL candidates despite high levels of fecal indicator bacteria in the ocean, according to the Defense Department Inspector General’s Office.

The Pentagon announced it will cover the costs for military families to travel for in-vitro fertilization treatment, clarifying a previous policy decision.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that Fort Liberty’s name return to Fort Bragg. He said other changes are coming.

Active duty airmen are grappling to understand the end of groups that have improved safety, recruiting and a canceled family conference that had put Narcan on the shelves of base stores.

Gender-affirming surgery is already banned in military healthcare systems but the new memo appears to target hormone therapy and other care.

Veteran advocates are asking for accountability on how the Department of Veterans Affairs uses its $571 million suicide prevention budget, and whether those efforts are working.

"It hits different when your leadership thinks about you like that,” said Sgt. Matthew Brennan, a soldier in the unit.

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky for hundreds of miles.

Two former West Point Black Knights, Cole Christiansen and Brett Toth, are playing for the Chiefs and the Eagles, respectively.

Sgt. Jacob Durham and three Pentagon contractors were onboard a plane that crashed on Feb. 6.