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The Pentagon sends 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border. The Air Force ends DEI efforts. Troops’ families are stuck in Afghanistan.

Army officials were instructed to remove diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility communications and trainings. The Air Force shuttered groups that targeted professional barriers faced by Black and Native airmen, women, and others.

Previous studies military aviators have found higher rates of cancer than the general population. A new bill in Congress would further study what links those jobs with increased risk.

Army recruits hoping for a job in a tank or other mechanized armor will now be assigned during basic training, similar tor recruits in air defense and infantry roles.

A total of four C-17s and C-130s will be used to fly migrants in detention out of the United States.

As nicotine packets like Zyn rapidly replace dipping tobacco in the ranks, the spitter bottles of GWOT — gross, simple, everywhere — are gone but not forgotten.

President Donald Trump has tapped two former lieutenant colonels, Stuart Scheller and Matthew Lohmeier, for Defense Department positions years after they were relieved of command for publicly criticizing senior military leaders.

The Army's ambitious plan to overhaul its dining halls and the food soldiers eat may run into a roadblock: Army culture.

“They've been vetted through and through and through, and mostly they've been vetted because we gave them guns and they saved our lives," said one Afghan advocate.

President Donald Trump has promised to deploy U.S. troops to the southern border, reinstate service members separated for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, and protect troops from “radical political theories and social experiments.”

Instructors wanted soldiers to learn how to “simplify and communicate complex ideas” using the Japanese style of poetry.

The new patch is being issued so people “will know who is who.”

The USS Indianapolis is the first Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be modified to fire Hellfire missiles meant to take out enemy drones and missiles.

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Matthew Lohmeier for undersecretary of the Department of the Air Force.

Manfredo Madrigal also allegedly mocked his ex-girlfriend, who was a witness in the case, as "still a failure" for a negative pregnancy test he discovered after hacking into her phone.

The Army Command Assessment Program, or CAP, involves having selection boards consider peer reviews when deciding if soldiers are ready for command.

This week brought a blizzard of military news, from Pete Hegseth’s defense secretary confirmation hearing to the top Marine general’s concerns over plans to move Marines to Guam.

Sarah M. Quemada was fired on Thursday “due to a loss of confidence in her ability to command.” No specific reason for her relief was given.

Pfc. McCallaster Foley, 20, from Iowa Falls, Iowa, was pronounced dead after a “non-training-related incident” at Fort Moore.

A California National Guard pilot describes how flyers perform a firefighting mission in the battle against Los Angeles’ raging fires.