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A secretive squadron of EC-130H Compass Call electronic warfare planes set a record of 19 straight years deployed. The last of the planes took its final flight this month.

Capt. Michael Cloninger’s F-22 lost its right wheel assembly shortly after takeoff, forcing a “wheels-up” belly landing.

Civilian police are riding aboard military helicopters searching areas across all 159 Georgia counties for illegal marijuana grows.

The Army says Sgt. 1st Class Oscar McGrew demonstrated “extraordinary heroism” during a March 1 Iranian drone attack on Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, that killed six soldiers.

The Army is considering major uniform changes, including moving rank back to collars, and new options for issued headgear.

In the wake of 9/11, Congress and the president shared the decision to go to war. In the years since, Congress has shed that duty.

Military aviation relies on tankers, but most of the fleet is over 60 years old, and the replacement is riddled with development issues.

Seemingly mundane things like a lit cigarette or discarded MRE packages could pose a risk for drones flying overhead, a new guidebook points out.

A test flight flew for over four hours over open ocean using quantum sensors to follow faint magnetic fields.

Each service will determine its own rules for meeting the score. The raised requirement does not apply to the new combat fitness tests in each service.

The Navy “cannot ensure that it is adequately protecting the health, readiness, and long-term well-being of its aviators,” a congressional report found.

“They had carried these relationships with them for 25 years, and that became a huge part of what ‘legacy’ meant to us.”

Starring Liam Neeson & Zachary Levi, it opens in theaters on Sept. 11, 2026. 

The Vermont Air National Guard unit known as “The Green Mountain Boys” returned home after rare back-to-back deployments to two theaters.

The Pentagon designated more than 80 military occupational specialties as combat arms under a new physical fitness policy.

The guardsman is currently being held in the D.C. jail and faces two felony charges.