The Navy formally charged a sailor with setting the fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault ship that served as a landing pad at sea for helicopters and Harrier jets and that was scheduled to carry F-35s. The Wasp-class ...
When Staff Sgt. John Stefanowicz takes the mat next week at the Tokyo Olympics, he’ll be the last competitor to represent the All-Marine Wrestling Team before it is disbanded. The news, which comes as a crushing disappointment to team supporters, ...
Without fanfare, a convoy of buses rolled through the gate at Fort Lee, Virginia, early Friday, marking the end of a long journey for the 221 passengers. The buses carried Operation Allies Refuge's first wave of Afghan refugees, mostly interpreters ...
Family members of nine military service members killed in an Assault Amphibious Vehicle, or AAV, accident near Camp Pendleton in 2020 announced a lawsuit Thursday against the manufacturer BAE Systems, citing an alleged design flaw in a cargo ...
The military vaccine mandate the White House announced Thursday will feel a little different in each service. If you’re in the Navy, you’ll hardly feel a thing, but if you’re in the Army, this might sting a bit. According to a fact sheet the White ...
Update, 6 p.m., July 29: This story has been updated with information that students in Walker's class were performing a drill in which they tread water when he was pulled from the pool, and with the number of students who have died in the school's ...
Army Reserve 1st Lt. Sam Kendricks — who came to attention for the national anthem in the middle of a pole vault attempt in the 2016 Olympics — withdrew from the Tokyo Games Thursday morning after testing positive for COVID-19. Kendricks is the ...
Masks are now required again for most military personnel, including everyone in the South and virtually everywhere in the western half of the country, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks released a memo ...
Unlike women in nearly every other position in the US military, if a cadet at a service academy such as the US Military Academy at West Point or the Air Force Academy gets pregnant, she faces a stark choice: Get an abortion, sever your parental ...
A former Air Force intelligence analyst has been sentenced to 45 months in prison for leaking details about the US military’s drone program. Daniel Hale, 33, told a federal judge he felt compelled to share classified documents with a journalist ...
This article was originally published July 26, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Pakistan's army says 46 Afghan soldiers crossed the border and were granted refuge in the country after losing their positions to advancing Taliban ...
President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi reached an agreement Monday to formally end the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year. Biden and al-Kadhimi met for their first face-to-face talks Monday afternoon in the ...
A question for the pushup police: Is it considered "good form" if your back is straight and your elbows break 90 degrees, but your butt is pushed up higher than anyone else's in North America? That was Air Force Lt. Col. Rob Marshall's starting ...
This article was originally published July 26, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Joint exercises involving about 2,500 military personnel from 15 allied and partner countries are due to get under way on July 26 in Georgia. The ...
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan hit record highs in the first half of 2021, spiking most dramatically from May onward as American troops began withdrawing from the country, a United Nations report revealed Monday. The United Nations Assistance ...
A US soldier set a new record in skeet shooting to win a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Monday. First Lt. Amber English, a 31-year-old logistics officer in the Army Reserve, set a new Olympic record to take home a gold medal in women’s skeet ...
I pay special attention to fitness news and advice buzzing around social media, whether it's general fitness goals, military-specific, or — a favorite subgenre — military preparation. I often notice bad advice that could get people hurt. Most of it ...
This article was originally published July 23, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry has rejected a Taliban claim that the insurgents control 90 percent of the country’s borders, calling the assertion an ...
As the service works to meet a congressional mandate to train female recruits at both of its training depots, the Marine Corps needs more female drill instructors as soon as possible, and the service is offering lump-sum bonuses up to $14,700 as an ...
After years of debate, the rule making the United States’ military draft male-only may soon change, adding women to the pool of possible inductees should the draft ever be reinstated. The Senate Armed Services Committee passed a draft of the ...
Manuel Antonio Noriega ruled Panama with secret police, torture, and intimidation. Noriega actively funneled drugs to the United States, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico, was in bed with the Medellin cartel of Colombia (Pablo Escobar’s gang) — and was ...
This article was originally published July 21, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The Taliban controls almost half of the roughly 420 district centers in Afghanistan, the top U.S. general has said in the latest indication of the ...
A former captain in Vanessa Guillén's battalion at Fort Hood published a video statement in which he slammed Fort Hood’s on-post security and said that the investigation into her death was deeply misguided. In a nearly hourlong video posted to ...
The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to accept thousands more Afghan refugees who assisted American troops as the US military withdrawal nears its close and the threat of Taliban retaliation grows. The Averting Loss of Life and Injury by ...
This article was originally published July 19, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan -- Safia and her three young children live out in the open, exposed to the punishing summer heat, with no food or water. She ...
Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, the soldier who died of wounds suffered while pulling seven men from a burning vehicle in Iraq in 2005, is poised to finally receive the Medal of Honor and become the first Black recipient of the medal since the Vietnam ...
In a rare honor, two soldiers who fought to the death alongside Special Forces teammates in an infamous October 2017 ambush in Niger were symbolically presented with Green Berets on Tuesday. Sgt. La David Johnson and Sgt. 1st Class Jeremiah ...
A June Department of Defense COVID-19 guidance update that enables base commanders to ask service members for proof of vaccination is beginning to impact the military. “Several dozen unvaccinated soldiers" were given General Officer Memoranda of ...
This article was originally published July 20, 2021, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. There was the mysterious man-made hole that appeared in a Russian-built module of the International Space Station. There was the satellite-carrying rocket ...
On Monday, the Department of Defense announced it had transferred a former al Qaeda ground commander and weapons trainer from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba to Morocco, his home nation. The move leaves 39 detainees in the facility as the ...
