Covid-19

Fort Benning hunkers down in hopes of avoiding post-holiday COVID-19 surge

"It may only get worse, but it too will pass."

A VA hospital worker stole medical equipment needed for COVID-19 patients and sold it on eBay

What a dick.

We salute this World War II veteran for surviving two pandemics a century apart

“People are fragile in their everyday lives and feel like they have to do it alone, but they don’t."

2020 sucked but these Task & Purpose stories were good as hell

Let's recognize some of the good stories to come out of this otherwise godawful year.

Gen. Mark Milley definitely has a tattoo and the mystery is killing me

"There’s a good story to it but we’re going to let the mystery live on for a little longer."

The Army is bragging that it took just under a year to reinvent the cloth facemask

It took a year to develop ... this?

Fort Bragg administers its first COVID-19 vaccine

“This is a milestone moment for us here on Fort Bragg."

Troops could get the COVID-19 vaccine starting next week

Prepare to be pricked.

Lawmakers demand answers over ‘dramatic increase’ of COVID-19 cases at Fort Bliss

New Mexico lawmakers voiced their "increasing concern" in a letter to U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy on Monday.

Airmen celebrate with memes after fitness test gets delayed to 2021

Waist measurement stress gone!

The Navy tried to screw 400 sailors out of holiday leave with an extra-long COVID-19 quarantine

The crew of the USS Rushmore was ordered to return to the ship despite being told they had the Thanksgiving...

The Army wants you to test your might in COVID Kombat

Choose your fighter. Will you be: The Dangler? The Nose Breather? The Denier?

The Army wants you to survive COVID Kombat

Arlington National Cemetery going ahead with holiday wreath-laying ceremony

“Our strong hope is to be able to resume hosting this great event next year in 2021."

The Air Force is looking into wearable devices that detect COVID-19

The Air Force hopes the device would identify a potential COVID-19 infection early and alert the user through its user...

Officials at Virginia airport worry decrease in flights this year will hurt troops going home for the holidays

“We’re in a position of strength and we want to help our partners who are not ... we want to...

Enlisted sailors on Navy warships are at higher risk of COVID-19 than officers, study finds

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases are more likely to spread among enlisted crew members on Navy ships, a new study released...

Soldier killed while on Fort Jackson rifle range identified

Two other soldiers have died at Fort Jackson this year.

Sailors say that being at sea for 215 days really sucked

'Most people were, like, extremely stressed out about it all the time,' one sailor said. 'Some people were kind of...

The #2 Space Force officer has COVID-19

Gen. David D. Thompson tested positive for the disease on Wednesday soon after learning that a close family member he...

Emails reveal how Capt. Crozier’s pleas for help from the Navy fell on deaf ears until his bombshell letter leaked

'Letter seems to have gotten the ball rolling ‐ hopefully not too late,' Crozier wrote in a March 31 email.

Social media is the greatest threat to US service members

The Army seems to be the Typhoid Mary of America’s ongoing social media stupidity pandemic.

2 new cases of COVID-19 reported on the USS Theodore Roosevelt

Two sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and have been transported off...

Pentagon releases latest numbers for suicide deaths in 2020

These figures are likely lagging indicators, as the Associated Press first revealed last month that suicide deaths had increased much...

British submariners left a US Navy port in search of booze. They came back with COVID-19

Do you want a safety brief? Because in the age of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, this is absolutely how...