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President Donald Trump has promised to respond after the crash of an Apache helicopter, which he said was shot down by the Iranians.
An Army veteran who served in Iraq was subdued and apprehended by three National Guardsmen during an incident last month in Washington, D.C.
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A mission to reach a sick man on a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean last month prompted a team of British soldiers to pull off one of the rarest, most high-risk parachute jumps that...
A Navy veteran is one of three men recently arrested for allegedly trying to pay more than $2,000 to a person whom they thought was a member of the Islamic State group, or ISIS, to buy...
Army investigators are looking into the theft of tens of thousands of dollars worth of gear from a soldier’s rental vehicle in Portland, Oregon.
The San Antonio Spurs struggled early during the 1996-97 NBA season. As their best player, David Robinson, rehabilitated his lower back, the injury-ravaged Spurs lost 15 of their first 18 games.
The Army officially has a new standardized mobile app for firing mortars. This spring, the Army gave the final clearance for a new system, called simply the Mortars App, that soldiers can use on...
Summer looks a little different for every military family. Some families spend the season surrounded by moving boxes and permanent change-of-station (PCS) checklists.
The military’s latest attempt to create cheap and effective counter-drone weapons looks like a shipping container. And for the first time, it took out a mid-sized aerial drone with a Joint...
The Army wants you…to leave nicotine pouches behind when traveling through France. Seriously, the Army says don’t take Zyn or any other brand with you inside French borders.
The Department of Defense is drastically reducing the number of religious faiths and belief systems it recognizes in its personnel records, from 211 to just 31.
In 1863, Adm. David Dixon Porter famously wrote, “A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.” Remembering that this was a time before t-shirts when people dressed properly, his words...
A new Army directive outlines how service officials will examine the religious basis and sincerity of soldiers’ requests for waivers to wear beards.
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It’s easy for filmmaking to lose its charm. Days on set are long. Some shot setups are tedious. There’s a lot of “hurry up and wait,” and we all know how that feels.
The Army has a plan in place for the service to carry out executions of military prisoners on death row, if execution orders are approved by President Donald Trump, officials confirmed.
Attention to orders: The commander of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing has promoted the beloved feline assigned to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, widely known as “Pizza Cat” to serve in the next higher...
Though the Army adopted the SIG M7 rifle and M8 carbine, the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) decided not to follow suit.
Chinese state media outlets predict America’s sixth-generation fighter, the F-47, will be an expensive boondoggle, though there are signs the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is, at least at some level,.
Wearing his survival suit, Ryan Shuck floated in the icy water of the Bering Sea, doing whatever he could to survive. It wasn’t easy.
(Illustration by Hrisanthi Pickett) It’s June 4, which marks the 500th day of President Donald Trump’s second term. Here at The War Horse, we’ve tracked every twist and turn related to the...
From the Revolutionary War through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, every branch has its stories of daring and valor in combat, along with its heroes responsible for those daring deeds.
The commanding officer, executive officer and senior enlisted leader of a Navy ship repair facility in Yokosuka, Japan, have been fired, service officials announced on Wednesday. Capt.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has mandated that “joint warfighting ability” be one of the criteria considered when officers and noncommissioned officers are evaluated for promotions, according to a..
