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The Pentagon now says four troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries from a weekend ballistic attack on al-Asad air base, up from an initial count of two.

"I have never been so proud to be an American or a Marine," Harris wrote to his parents. More than 30 U.S. veterans have died in Ukraine since February 2022.

The Army told infantry, paratroopers and Rangers to turn in gear they'd been issued but didn't need. They turned in 37,000 items.

Aim high.

Recovery efforts could take months.

Which hip blaster reigns supreme?

There have been 83 injuries since attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria began in October.

The SEALs were taking part in an extremely dangerous type of mission known as Visit, Board, Search and Seizure, or VBSS.

We mourn the loss of these two brave SEALs.

The military crafted hundreds of hand-made, intricate slides on missiles and war. One reporter is working on digitizing dozens of boxes of them.

Decades of best practices for armor are no match for a self-described gamer and his driver.

Historians first alerted the Air Force to the graveyard in 2019.

The attack reportedly injured American and Iraqi personnel.

The DragonFire anti-drone weapons system is meant to be a vastly cheaper alternative to using missiles.

The Air Force sergeant was not wearing a life jacket when he slipped off a Pararescue team's jet ski on an Arizona lake.

Turns out, it's not an Army of one after all.

Maintainers making a routine repair did not do a full inventory of their tools when they finished, an investigation foud.

The Air Force and Space Force now send about two dozen candidates to Army Ranger School every year, four times as many as just five years ago.

"The term ‘loss of confidence’ has real meaning in the Navy."

All your burning questions about U.S. Army Basic Training, answered.