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Travis Bell has been cutting the hair of every kind of soldier at Fort Liberty, from new privates to four-star generals, for 57 years.

Rangers, Green Berets, and Nuclear Disablement Team 1 trained together in two different states for a rare opportunity to hone their skills together for real-world scenarios.

The issue of adding women to a military draft has come up multiple times over the last decade.

A military laboratory identified the remains of 16 missing soldiers, many of whom were last seen as POWs.

Soldiers at Fort Carson competed in a division-wide tradition that honored the role of the 4th ID on D-Day and looked like End Times.

Though barred from the pool in his hometown growing up, Willliam Goines became the first Black sailor to serve as a modern-era SEAL.

An Air Force firefighter was honored for his treatment of a critically injured passenger and a quick-thinking evacuation plan after the rollover accident.

Though the pier in Gaza has had its struggles in recent high seas, the JLOTS system is a key capability that combines skills from the Army, Navy and civilian world.

Airmen can expect universal uniform inspections and a crackdown on shaving in Air Combat Command, the service's largest branch.

The tiltrotor V-22 returned to partial operations in March, but the military is still reviewing what led to fatal mishaps.

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group airlifted 24 civilians after their ship was heavily damaged by a Houthi drone.

In Vietnam, Sgt. Mitchell Stout gave his life protecting soldiers from a grenade. Now the Army renamed the M-SHORAD system after him.

The military set up hundreds of fake social media accounts that sowed doubt about Chinese efforts to fight COVID-19 in the country.

Cmdr. David Ruhlig was relieved of command of Coast Guard Station New York on June 3.

A small float plane crashed in heavy woods near Lake Clark, a remote National Park that can only be reached by air.

Lance Cpl. Austin Brian Schwenk was killed on Oct. 18, 2023 at Camp Lejeune. Cpl. Jesse Thomas Bopp’s trial is scheduled for November.

The average person may not picture an ant as a Marine’s ultimate challenger, but one Marine chose fire ants as a means to test his pain response — or so it seems. 

The Modern Army Combatives Program teaches soldiers the fundamentals of fighting hand to hand, but it’s not an advanced block of instruction. Soldiers will need to continue honing their hand-to-hand.

Three U.S. Navy destroyers and a P-8 sub-hunting aircraft were shadowing a Russian flotilla arriving in Havana, Cuba.

The two databases that track domestic abuse in the Army missed close to 4,000 cases, leading to less prevention and repeat offenders.