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The newest Navy ship entered service next to the oldest commissioned ship in the fleet.

Despite failure, the department’s comptroller says “momentum is on our side” as military makes some progress.

The 2021 photograph of the then-two-star general boarding the last C-17 out of Kabul came to symbolize the U.S. withdrawal after 20 years of war.

The assault was the Air Force's largest air-to-air engagement in five decades. Over 60 pilots, crew and ground troops faced hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles.

Doug Collins is a Navy veteran, an Air Force Reserve colonel, a Baptist minister, and a former congressman.

President-elect Trump nominates Pete Hegseth as defense secretary. Generals await a coming purge. The Middle East is getting sporty (again)

The Fox News host served in the Army National Guard as an infantry officer, and has argued that top senior leaders involved with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts need to be fired.

The Defense Deparment’s annual suicide report for 2023 found “gradual” increases in suicide rates since 2011 across the active duty force with “stable” trends for the National Guard and Reserve.

“You're not full scout until you have them. That's how I always looked at them."

“I’ve always been the type of person to help when I can,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Gabriel Journey, a third-generation Navy submariner.

The Office of Special Trial Counsel has recalled several soldiers to active duty to face trial, including an NCO in the case of the death of a five-year-old.

USS Stockdale and USS Spruance were attacked by eight drones, five ballistic missiles and three cruise missiles on Nov. 11. Neither vessel was damaged.

Harriet Tubman, a hero of the Underground Railroad who served as a spy for the Union Army, was named a brigadier general in the Maryland National Guard.

The airstrikes struck nine targets in two locations in Syria that were “associated with Iranian groups,” U.S. Central Command said.

The modified robot dog can track chemical, biological and nuclear material. And yes, it is named after the 2015 sci-fi movie.

Maj. Gen. William Zana, the only guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to reach the rank of general, took a final guard shift on the night he retired.

“America will always need Marines willing to fix bayonets and charge the enemy.”

The Cold War was weird.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer bears the name of the heroic World War II Marine, who earned the highest military honor for his actions on Guadalcanal.

Army Maj. Jonathan J. Batt faces 3 charges and 76 specifications of offenses including sexual assault, abusive sexual contact and aggravated assault.