Last week, Staff Sergeant James F. Moriarty, a Green Beret assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group, was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, the third-highest award for valor, for his actions during a friendly-fire attack in Jordan. On ...
KYIV, Ukraine — With US Air Force B-1B supersonic bombers in Norway for combat exercises, America’s top general in Europe has warned about the threat posed by Russia to the US and its Western allies — a threat spanning from the Arctic to the Black ...
Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Marine Corps marksmanship officials this week rolled out the final version of a new, more realistic rifle qualification course that will force Marines to put lethal hits on ...
What a difference a few months make. The US Navy expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Carson City pulled into Port Sudan on Wednesday, marking the first port visit by a US Navy ship after Washington officially rescinded Sudan’s status as a state ...
Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Troops who have encountered extremism from their fellow service members should share those experiences with their leaders, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a video ...
Just in time for the great-power competition era, the US Air Force has acquired a light attack aircraft perfectly suited for providing close air support in combat against low-tech insurgencies. The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center ...
Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. When the Navy holds its daylong stand-downs to address the extremist ideologies that leaders say have infiltrated the military ranks, sailors across the fleet will be ...
QUANTICO, Va. — Marines recently received an innovative new optic that better prepares them to engage adversaries from longer distances. In January, Marine Corps Systems Command’s Program Manager for Infantry Weapons began fielding the Squad ...
Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Marine leaders on Friday met with a woman who appeared in a now-viral TikTok video complaining that a general officer was allowing a man who admitted to mistreating her a ...
This article was originally published Feb. 19, 2021, on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Iran says it will "immediately reverse" its actions that contradict a 2015 nuclear agreement once U.S. sanctions are lifted after Washington said it was ready ...
This article was originally published Feb. 18, 2021, on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, has rejected Moscow's assertion that last year's nerve-agent poisoning of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny ...
Maj. Gen. Stephen J. Maranian was suspended from his role as commandant at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 9. According to Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith, Maranian’s suspension was due to an allegation of inappropriate ...
This article was originally published Feb. 19, 2021, on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says the U.S. military is looking for so-called "fallback" bases in Saudi Arabia to protect forces in the ...
The F-35A Lightning II is the Air Force’s newest, fifth-generation stealth fighter. But there’s nothing stealth about the deterrent message to Russia intended by the permanent basing of an F-35A squadron on British soil. Set to be the first US Air ...
According to The New York Times, high-ranking officials in the Department of Defense delayed the promotion of two female generals last fall. They feared then-President Donald Trump would scuttle the officers’ promotions due to their gender. Former ...
As the saying goes: “Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.” Well, for the 30 Taliban militants who died during a bomb-making workshop in Afghanistan on Saturday, the proverbial bear got the best of them. The Afghan National ...
More than two-thirds of U.S. service members offered the COVID-19 vaccine have opted to receive it — but the high rate of troops turning it down has lawmakers voicing grave concerns. Speaking before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, ...
China’s no-holds-barred military modernization program has included some attention-grabbing new technologies seemingly drawn from the recesses of science fiction. In addition to the development of artificial intelligence technology, experiments in ...
FORT GORDON, Ga. - Fort Gordon honored Black History Month with a command program Monday in Darling Hall. The program was hosted by Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center and broadcasted live on Facebook to help maximize attendance. The theme ...
Around 2:30 p.m. Friday, the women of Platoon 3241, Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, moved into their squad bay aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego and met their drill instructors for the first time. The recruits of Platoon ...
The commencement of the 2021 spring semester marked a first in US Naval Academy history. Sydney Barber was elected to be the midshipmen's brigade commander, making her the first Black female in the academy's 175-year history to hold the position. ...
A barrage of rockets struck an Iraqi air base in the city of Erbil on Monday, killing a civilian contractor working for the US-led coalition combating ISIS. An American service member and several American civilian contractors were also injured in the ...
Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. An element of Army Special Operations Command has distanced itself from a unit logo that has been adopted by a domestic extremist group. Just last week, the John F. ...
No fewer than 44 American citizens and permanent residents are currently held hostage or wrongfully detained in 11 countries, the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation announced this week. Not included within that number are some 28 Americans who have ...
A large section of ice broke loose in Wisconsin’s Sturgeon Bay, just off of Lake Michigan, on Feb. 4. The recent warm weather combined with a strong eastern wind caused the ice to break off, stranding 66 people who were ice fishing at the time. ...
On the entrenched battlefield of eastern Ukraine, both the Ukrainians and their Russian enemies have jury-rigged and weaponized off-the-shelf small drones to create cheap strike platforms capable of dropping grenades and homemade antipersonnel ...
In a historic first for the Marine Corps, 60 female recruits stepped off buses and onto the iconic yellow footprints alongside hundreds of male recruits in front of the receiving barracks at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on Tuesday. The ...
A quick-thinking water treatment technician stopped a cyber-based terrorist attack on the residents of Pinellas County on Florida's Gulf Coast. On Friday, an unidentified hacker gained access to the Oldsmar, Florida, water treatment plant computers ...
KYIV, Ukraine — It’s a cold, cold war. With US Air Force B-1B bombers heading to Norway, a squadron of Russian Navy MiG-31BM "Foxhound" supersonic interceptors has deployed to a remote Arctic air base to assume "combat" alert duties. According to ...
This article was originally published Jan. 29, 2021, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. America’s Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, sometimes referred to as the BUFF, has been around for a long time. As one of America’s three ...
