KYIV, Ukraine — In 1935 the American air power visionary General Billy Mitchell told Congress: “I believe that in the future, whoever holds Alaska will hold the world.” Nearly a century later, U.S. military forces in Alaska remain at the vanguard ...
It is common knowledge that nearly all Marine Corps duty stations are next to the ocean, and that surfing comes with the territory. With surfing comes a community strengthened by a shared desire to be mentally, emotionally, and physically strong, ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Residents of a northern Russian village were informed this week that they were living in a “danger zone” due to unspecified “work” being done a little more than 1 mile away at a secretive weapons testing site where the Russian ...
The origin of the American sniper is vague, with reports dating back as early as the American Revolution. The first established peacetime sniper school within the U.S. military was the U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper course in Quantico, Virginia, in ...
Elements of the Georgia National Guard are being ordered into Atlanta after violence and crime in the city skyrocketed over the last several weeks. According to an Atlanta Police Department COBRA report, from June 14 to June 20, there were 21 ...
KYIV, Ukraine — The sound of freedom roared over the South China Sea this Independence Day, underscoring America’s commitment to maintain freedom of movement within a region where China has made controversial territorial claims and often bucked ...
Army officials confirmed Monday that the human remains found last week near the Leon River in Texas were those of missing Specialist Vanessa Guillén. The identification was made through DNA analysis. Guillén, a small arms repairer, was last seen ...
This story was originally published July 2, 2020, by ProPublica. The U.S. Marine Corps acknowledged in a new high-level review that its original investigation into a fatal 2018 midair crash off the coast of Japan was inaccurate and incomplete, ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s military plans to arm some of its front-line units with U.S.-made Javelin anti-tank missiles as well as armed Turkish drones, underscoring a significant, possibly destabilizing policy shift after more than six years of ...
On Saturday, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced the death of 21-year-old Specialist Vincent Sebastian Ibarria, who died on July 3 in Farah, Afghanistan after a rollover accident occurred while supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel ...
Editor’s Note: In the interest of accurately reporting the events of Spc. Guillen’s murder, we have included details in this article that may be upsetting to some readers. While the command at Fort Hood remains steadfast in their refusal to ...
The Department of Defense recently prohibited the use of hemp oil and CBD products for all active-duty and reserve military members. CBD, or cannabidiol, is marijuana’s second most prevalent chemical compound and is frequently used for medicinal ...
KYIV, Ukraine — On March 23, 2017, a 45-year-old former Russian parliamentarian named Denis Voronenkov stepped out of the Premier Palace Hotel in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. An outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who had sought ...
The search for missing soldier Vanessa Guillén appears to have come to a tragic end on Tuesday, when human remains were found in a shallow grave near the Leon River 25 miles from Killeen, Texas. Private First Class Guillén, who was 20 years old, ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Kurdish Peshmerga forces repelled two attacks by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps troops along the Iraq-Iran border last week, underscoring a long-simmering resistance movement by Iranian Kurdish groups, operating from ...
Major Richard Star loved to run. A U.S. Army reservist for 28 years and 10 months, Star served almost 15 of those years of active duty, starting with Operation Desert Storm. “I just enjoyed running,” Star said. “And you breathe in deeply, ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Recent news reports that a Russian military spy agency paid the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan marks an extraordinarily brazen escalation of Moscow’s hybrid war against the U.S. and the West. Yet many experts also say ...
KYIV, Ukraine — News broke on Friday evening that a Russian military intelligence unit offered payments to Taliban fighters to kill NATO coalition soldiers in Afghanistan, including U.S. personnel. If true, the plot marks an extraordinary ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Despite the ongoing pandemic, the world’s other geopolitical problems haven’t gone away. Of particular importance, the United States, Russia, and China are at the cusp of a new nuclear arms race. U.S. and Russian officials met in ...
When Private First Class Vanessa Guillén disappeared on April 22, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood, Texas, sprang into action. Five-hundred soldiers a day were searching around the base, and the 1st Cavalry Regiment provided over 100 hours of ...
KYIV, Ukraine — With the news cycle moving a mile a minute these days, you might have missed the news that a shipment of U.S. military aid, including Javelin anti-tank missiles, arrived in Ukraine last week. You may also not have heard about the $600 ...
U.S. Army Specialist Nick Bravo Regules, 20, died during a non-combat related incident Tuesday in Jordan while in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the Department of Defense announced Wednesday. Regules was assigned to 2nd Battalion, ...
A U.S. army soldier has been arrested and indicted by a federal court for allegedly plotting with a notorious Satan-worshipping, neo-Nazi extremist group to ambush his unit, which is based in Europe. The United States District Court, Southern ...
There are a lot of ways to die in the Himalayas. Frostbite. Altitude sickness. Avalanches. Rockfalls. Gravity. Now, you can add Chinese soldiers wielding spiked clubs to that list. India said 20 of its soldiers died in a confrontation with ...
The Apache helicopter flies through the sky through all weather conditions to deliver destruction to the enemies of our United States. The men and women who fly them act as archangels providing overwatch for troops; the pilots of these war machines ...
The U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) announced today the death of 28-year-old Sergeant Wolfgang “Wolf” K. Weninger. He sustained fatal injuries while participating in the U.S. Army's Basic Airborne Course at Fort Benning, ...
KYIV, Ukraine — A batch of U.S. military aid worth about $60 million arrived in Ukraine on Wednesday, underscoring U.S. support for the post-Soviet country as it continues to wage a static, trench war in its east to hold a Russian invasion force at ...
The death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man under police custody in Minneapolis, has spurred all corners of American society to address institutionalized bias against African Americans and other minorities. The U.S. military is no ...
KYIV, Ukraine — A U.S. Air Force F-15C fighter aircraft crashed into the North Sea off the coast of the United Kingdom on Monday, killing the sole pilot aboard. The Air Force on Tuesday identified the pilot as 1st Lieutenant Kenneth Allen — known ...
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian court on Monday sentenced former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan to 16 years in prison for espionage, drawing an immediate rebuke from top U.S. officials. “The United States is outraged by the decision of a Russian court today to ...
