Mark Esper said he never went on stage in praise of Trump. Here are three times he did
Now-former Defense Secretary Mark Esper claimed in a new interview that no cabinet secretary pushed back against the president as much as he has
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Trump’s new defense secretary nearly ate pavement outside the Pentagon on his first day of the job
Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller made his way into the Pentagon on Monday soon after President Trump unceremoniously fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper over Twitter. But as Miller, 55, ascended the steps, he came extremely close to falling on his face.
Trump fires Defense Secretary Mark Esper ‘effective immediately’
President Donald Trump announced on DAY that he has fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who had held the top job in the Pentagon since July 2019.
A new Pentagon report on sexual assault in the military is a wakeup call to a ‘systemic’ problem
A new report released this month further reaffirms a depressing truth: The military’s handling of sexual assault is abysmal.
The Pentagon has engineered a brand new MRE substitute to punish your insides
Kiss your beloved pizza MRE goodbye, service members: the Defense Department is working on a brand new lightweight combat ration designed to keep troops fueled up while inevitably ruining your bowels
Man found guilty of trying to blow up a soldier’s SUV in the Pentagon parking lot
A judge for the Eastern District of Virginia found Matthew Dmitri Richardson guilty of a federal arson charge for attempting to blow up an active-duty soldier’s Land Rover in the Pentagon parking lot earlier this year.
Pentagon releases latest numbers for suicide deaths in 2020
The second quarter of 2020, which includes the onset of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, saw an increase in the number of active-duty and Reserve suicide deaths compared with the same time period last year
Top general appears to be at odds with the White House over the Afghanistan withdrawal plan
Army Gen. Mark Milley said the US military will withdraw from Afghanistan based on conditions on the ground, contradicting President Donald Trump, who said all US troops in Afghanistan should be home by Christmas.
The Pentagon has funneled $7.4 billion in surplus military gear to police forces that don’t want or need it
Since 1990, the Defense Department has funneled more than $7.4 billion in excess military gear to nearly 8,000 federal and state law enforcement agencies across the United States
The Pentagon won’t say if all US troops are actually leaving Afghanistan by Christmas
A day after President Donald Trump tweeted that all U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be home by the end of the year, the silence coming from top military leaders was so intense that one could practically hear a mouse fart.
The Pentagon refuses to acknowledge that more service members are dying by suicide in 2020
Apparently, the first “D” in “Defense Department” stands for dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge, because that’s exactly what a Pentagon official did on Thursday when asked about the rising numbers of service members who have been dying by suicide since the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) erupted in spring.
Biden’s likely pick for defense secretary says using National Guard on election day would be unhealthy for democracy
Michèle Flournoy, who is expected to serve as defense secretary if former Vice President Joe Biden wins the presidential election, said she does not believe the National Guard should be called on to protect voting locations if there is any civil unrest in November.
The military has seen a significant increase in suicide deaths since COVID-19 hit
The military is seeing a roughly 20% increase in deaths by suicide so far in 2020, and that includes a 30% increase in active-duty soldiers who have died this year, the Associated Press has reported.
The Pentagon used money for the COVID-19 response as a slush fund for defense contractors
Congress gave the Pentagon $1 billion to "prevent, prepare for, and respond" to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), but instead the military decided to spend most of the money on bailing out defense contractors by buying things that have nothing to do with keeping people safe from the disease, the Washington Post has revealed.
Jon Stewart to Pentagon: The F-35 can wait, but troops dying from burn pit exposure can’t
Jon Stewart, the former host of Comedy Central's "Daily Show" took to Capitol Hill to rail against the federal government's insistence that building a fleet of newfangled jets (some which don't work) is a better use of taxpayer dollars than caring for our wounded and ill.
He watched a plane hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Then he braved flames and smoke to save lives
Capt. Lincoln Leibner was 100 yards from the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed. He instantly became a first responder.
DoD leaders host vice president for ceremony at National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in 2019
As It Happened: The 9/11 Pentagon Attack
During the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, live audio was recorded at 9:37 a.m. from air traffic controllers and 911 first responders as American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon. It is now the soundtrack for this intense revisit to that fateful day. Follow Flight 77 as it veers off course, tracked by ATC toward its […]
‘Do your part’ — Joint Chiefs vice chair calls on leaders to end military suicide crisis
"Regardless of which uniform we wear, we’re not immune from life’s challenges, including thoughts of suicide."
Trump accuses Pentagon leaders of wanting to ‘fight wars’ to make defense companies rich
President Donald Trump blasted the Pentagon’s leadership on Monday for allegedly caring about the defense industry more than U.S. service members. “I’m not saying the military’s in love with me – the soldiers are,” the president said at a White House news conference. “The top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t because they want to […]
VA secretary could run the Pentagon if Trump fires Defense Secretary Esper, report says
President Donald Trump could tap Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to run the Defense Department if the president fires Defense Secretary Mark Esper, according to NBC News. Senior White House officials have spoken to Wilkie in the past month about the possibility that he could become defense secretary, NBC reporters Carol E. Lee […]
Return of the JEDI: Pentagon says Microsoft cloud is still better than Amazon
The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract could reach as much as $10 billion
The Pentagon used a hypersonic bullet to shoot down a mock cruise missile for the first time
The U.S. military’s vaunted hypervelocity projectile just took a major step towards knocking incoming cruise missiles out of the sky. Breaking Defense reports that the Air Force recently used the HVP — a low-drag, guided projectile capable of reaching speeds up to Mach 5 — to down a BQM-167 target drone over the White Sands Missile […]
The Pentagon is terrified of talking to reporters again
With each passing day, it increasingly looks as if Pentagon officials are trying to hide from the press until the presidential election is over. We seem to be back to the bad old days when then-Defense Secretary James Mattis’ relationship with President Donald Trump became so strained that Mattis and other top Pentagon leaders were […]
The Pentagon is a shrine to antiquated technology where creative thinking goes to die
The fact that the Pentagon is a technologically backward outpost where innovation is considered a thought crime should come as no surprise to anyone who has spent any time either in or working for the military. But former Navy Chief Learning Officer John Kroger’s recent column for Wired beautifully lays bare the initial shock that […]