Active duty news that veterans care about — policy, deployments, service-branch decisions, and the threads that connect to those still serving.
In Maine, a new partnership between Boots2Roots and the Maine Defense Industrial Alliance (MDIA) is providing comprehensive resources for military veterans and their family members who are...
Army Lt. Gen. Kevin Admiral is the Pentagon’s pick to replace Gen. Christopher Donahue as the top Army officer for Europe and Africa, officials said in statement Thursday .
As the war in Iran continues to make headlines, military families have steeled themselves for the uncertainty that comes with conflict, with many facing deployment orders or rumors of such.
Thousands of National Guardsmen mobilized to Washington, D.C., will soon be living in apartment units under a $290 million rental contract the guard calls a “long-term housing solution,” officials...
Let’s be clear: a tab doesn’t make a good soldier, let alone a good leader. Graduating from Ranger School, the Sapper Leader Course, or the prestigious Special Forces Qualification “Q” Course allows..
As civilian air traffic controllers working for the military leave for more lucrative contracts elsewhere, a federal watchdog is sounding the alarm that their exodus could be contributing to...
Despite the protests of the badass pilots who fly it and troops on the ground who love having it overhead, the A-10 Thunderbolt II has been fighting for its life since the introduction of the F-35.
Roughly 5,200 enlisted medical service members assigned to a healthcare education facility in Texas are being moved out of their dormitories due to “systemic infrastructure failures” stemming from...
The Iran War isn’t just unpopular. From the start, it had the lowest support among Americans of any war in U.S. history—and wars do not get more popular as time goes on.
The M14 rifle replaced the venerable M1 Garand in 1957 and infamously served as the primary U.S. service rifle for only five years before it was replaced by the M16 rifle.
The Post 9/11 wars have shown the limits of America’s military might against insurgents, terrorist groups, and other enemies that fight in the shadows instead of in force-on-force battles.
Staff Sgt. Bruna Souza, 102nd Medical Group, administers a COVID-19 vaccine during an immunization clinic at Otis Air National Guard Base, Feb. 6.
The Defense Department is updating its Cognitive Monitoring Program to include a next-generation capability to meet increased operational demands and reflect matured science.
When a service member dies without updating a beneficiary form, the government pays whoever’s listed on the paperwork, even if it’s someone the recently deceased hadn’t spoken to in decades.
Stateside Marines who looked at the new enlisted barracks in Japan featuring private rooms should not get their hopes up about the possibility of living without a roommate.
The Pentagon has announced that Army Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, is “believed to have been killed” in a July 17 Iranian attack against Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan.
Military and Veteran families carry experiences that don’t always appear in data, but they should. From navigating post-service transitions to managing financial stability, employment, healthcare and.
The top wing commander in the Wyoming Air National Guard and a senior group commander were fired from their positions July 17 by the state’s commanding general, state officials said. Col.
The mostly abandoned neighborhoods on Adak Island, Alaska, were once home to 5,000 Navy sailors and their families. But after 40 years as a supply depot, Naval Air Facility Adak closed in 1997,...
The military's reserve components now issue departing reservists a new standard service record that summarizes their periods of active and inactive service as well as their "points" earned toward...
The Defense Department has identified Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton as the soldier killed on July 19 during the controlled detonation of a downed Iranian one-way attack drone’s ordnance in Erbil,...
For troops and civilian Pentagon employees hoping that changing marijuana laws mean they might be able to partake, that dream has now gone up in smoke.
Soldiers at Fort Stewart, Georgia, will soon be able to use their meal cards at Subway, Starbucks, Burger King and QDOBA on base, according to Army officials. On Aug.
As New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani explores ways to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant, the Trump Administration has been working..
The Department of Defense identified two of the three U.S. troops killed last week in an Iranian attack on a base in Jordan.
