A new warship named for John Basilone – a Marine awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism at Guadalcanal and the Navy Cross at Iwo Jima – has been delivered to the Navy, service officials announced. The destroyer was transferred to the Navy on Monday from shipbuilder General Dynamics Bath Iron Works after the ship […]
A 20-year Marine who died on Sunday near Camp Pendleton, California is one of more than 60 U.S. service members who have been killed in motorcycle crashes since October, according to data kept by the military branches. The identity of the Marine, who was assigned to the 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, […]
Two Ohio soldiers who stole a Confederate train and left a 200-mile trail of havoc through the South will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor on Wednesday. Pvt. Philip G. Shadrach and Pvt. George D. Wilson were two members of a team of Union soldiers who were captured and executed after taking part in a […]
A retired Marine General who once oversaw all training across the Marine Corps and who recently was in Ukraine to review that nation’s military training was found dead on Twentynine Palms training center, the service’s largest training base. Maj. Gen. William F. Mullen, 59, who retired from the Marines in 2020, was “found deceased” on […]
During the height of the Vietnam War, Army Spc. Doris Allen studied signs of a build-up of Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops in late 1967 within the flow of reports she monitored as an Army intelligence analyst. She told her bosses an attack was coming. She was right, and — almost to the day she […]
Phoenix Hanna, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, died recently in a California surfing accident. Hanna was a third-generation Coastguardsman, his father said, and his son’s death marks “the first time since 1967 that there hasn’t been a Hanna on active duty in the military.” Both Hanna’s father and grandfather also served in the Coast Guard, […]
A bell rang eight times as a small crowd of Army Green Berets and family members stood by silently. After each bell, a voice called out a Combat Diver’s name, each a soldier who died during the six decades that the Army’s most elite soldiers have trained for at Special Forces Underwater Operations school in […]
A soldier at Joint Base Lewis-McChord is charged with allegedly killing his eight-month pregnant wife and another soldier. Army officials told Task & Purpose that Spc. John Maupin, a scout with the 7th Infantry Division, was in custody after two soldiers assigned to JBLM, Washington and a family member “were involved in a fatal domestic […]
An Air Force officer who served as operations director for Alaskan Command was one of two people killed when their small two-person plane crashed into a lake in the state this week. The plane was recovered on Thursday, June 20 and authorities confirmed the identities of the deceased on June 21. Col. Mark “Tyson” Sletten […]
BAGHDAD – The headquarters of Operation Inherent Resolve maintains two memorials to troops killed since 2014 in the fight against ISIS. One is a mural of pictures that the OIR staff walks past each day in the Baghdad headquarters, including three soldiers killed in the so-called “Tower 22” attack in January, Sgt. Kennedy L. Sanders, […]
The first Black sailor to serve as a modern-era Navy SEAL wasn’t allowed to use the public pool in his Ohio hometown. Still, William Goines left Lockland, Ohio at 19 to join the Navy, soon became one of just a handful of early Black ‘frogmen’ and was eventually the only Black sailor picked to help […]
An Air Force officer and NCO both suffered catastrophic injuries when the burly off-road rescue vehicle they were riding in rolled over and ejected them during a training event in the Northern Mariana Islands in early 2023. An accident investigation board found the driver, a special warfare captain, was driving too fast, had no training […]
A Navy rescue swimmer who had been on recruiting duty died at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in requalification training.
Anders, an astronaut who orbited the Moon during Apollo 8, died after the plane he was piloting crashed off Washington state.
Army Sgt. Maj. Jeremy C. Sims, 44, was found on May 20 while he was assigned to Osan Air Base, South Korea as an air defense senior leader.
Five gates at Fort Moore — where the Army trains infantry, paratroopers, and Rangers — are now named for legendary soldiers like Alwyn Cashe.
1st Lt. Nathan B. Baskind went missing in 1944 scouting a route for his company of tank destroyers. He was officially accounted for in May.
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Eddie Duran was fired for killing Senior Airman Roger Fortson on May 3 following an investigation.
Family of Pfc. Katia Duenas-Aguilar said “the problem is inside” and compared her death to the 2020 murder of Vanessa Guillen..
The families of four Marines who died in a 2022 MV-22 Osprey crash say Boeing, Bell Textron and Rolls Royce lied about the plane’s safety.
Pfc. Katia Duenas-Aguilar was found dead on May 18 in her off-post home. Her death has been ruled a homicide.
The Air Force grounded about 70 T-6As in 2022 after flaws in the explosives used in ejection seats were discovered.
Army officials said 1st Lt. Zachary Galli died in a training accident at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Johnson, Louisiana.
Selected Reserve Chief Hospital Corpsman Daniel D. McCracken died May 6, according to the Navy, while assigned to the CENTCOM region.
Senior Airman Roger Fortson was a Special Missions Aviator assigned to AC-130J Ghostrider gunships with the 4th Special Operations Squadron.
