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Failed pumps at a water treatment plant have left about 4,000 soldiers who live in water-cooled barracks without central air conditioning.

Though major exercise like African Lion continue, the U.S. has reduced forces in Africa and leaders have sought a path to “empowerment over dependency” for allies.

Aviation Machinist’s Mate Third Class George Milton Neal was one of the only Black sailors in the Navy assigned to a search and rescue unit when he and two comrades evaded capture for nine days in North Korea.

The new closure, aimed at ships “entering and exiting Iranian ports,” begins Tuesday. President Donald Trump said it may include a 20% tariff on other traffic in the key waterway.

The U.S. military has used one-way attack sea drones for the first time in combat. The vessels struck Iranian targets over the weekend.

The Army is cutting the Office of Soldiers’ Counsel, whose attorneys help soldiers facing medical discharge. “They’re doing it at the expense of some of the most vulnerable members of the military,” a lawyer said.

The 90-page guide is a “practical handbook” on dealing with the rise of drone threats to troops and bases.

American forces struck several targets in Iran Sunday night after Tehran targeted U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf.

Operation Crossroads saw the first postwar nuclear detonations, as the Army and Navy tried to see what atomic weapons could do to a conventional force.

Members of the 129th Rescue Wing jumped to a fishing ship and stabilized an injured crewman overnight while the ship reached land and a hospital.

The new Meadowlands system blinds enemy spacecraft and can be rapidly deployed around the globe.

Capt. Nathanial Welch, whose callsign is “Icarus,” flew close to Houthi air defenses in April 2025, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross.

More than eight months after the Marines decommissioned amphibious assault vehicles in active-duty units, a Reserve unit put the last operational ones through an exercise in Europe.

For the second time in five months, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth waded into an Army safety review by telling grounded pilots to “carry on, Patriots.”

The new units, based in Quantico, Virginia, and Twentynine Palms, California, will experiment with new technologies and develop training for deploying Marines.

“A civilian who was sexually assaulted by a military member could already sue,” one advocate said. “Why shouldn’t an active duty military member be able to?”