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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.

Pfc. Katia Dueñas-Aguilar was killed in her off-post home near Fort Campbell in May 2024.

Schools for military families must pull several lessons tied to immigration, gender and sexuality from their curriculum and remove books that could "potentially" cover those topics.

“[83%] of active-duty families and 67% of Americans anticipate U.S. involvement in a major conflict within the next three to five years."

An accident investigation board found that the part behind an F-16C crash in April 2024 was in a "blind spot" that Air Force mechanics can't see during maintenance.

President Trump has said the United States wants to take over Gaza, but he clarified that no U.S. troops will be needed to deploy there. Elsewhere in the Middle East, airstrikes continue as the Forever Wars quietly grind on.

Anthony Mackie has played a former Air Force pararescue specialist-turned-superhero in four Marvel movies. For his new role as Captain America, he took a jump with the real PJs at the 58th Rescue Squadron.