Active duty news that veterans care about — policy, deployments, service-branch decisions, and the threads that connect to those still serving.
Navy Corpsman Paul Brown on patrol in Afghanistan. If not for what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 , Valeria Casillas probably would not have joined the military.
On Sept. 1, 2026, American Rheinmetall announced delivery of the first Lynx XM30 combat vehicle prototype to the U.S. Army.
Army, Navy, and Air Force went a combined 3-0 and outscored their opponents 135-18, while rushing for an astonishing 1,506 yards during Week 1.
The Marine Corps is continuing its push to bring in recruits to fill high-tech jobs, once again offering up to $15,000 in enlistment bonuses, as the service works to build out its cyber and...
The Air Force said last week that its M18 service pistol is “safe, reliable, and functional” following a review of tens of thousands of the firearms.
The U.S. military has disabled advertising tracking tools in government-issued phones, computers and other devices, officials recently told Congress.
American forces hit three Iranian oil tankers around the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked two U.S. warships. U.S.
After a resumption in fighting over the last week, the Pentagon added dozens of wounded troops to its online tally of casualties in the Iran conflict. As of Friday, Sept.
The top civilian who oversees the Army Corps of Engineers was named the Acting Secretary of the Army following the sudden resignation of Dan Driscoll’s from the top Army post Monday.
Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer gave an audience of junior Marines insight into his own unique position — a 38-year-old combat veteran of Afghanistan who, as a sergeant, now finds himself a...
An Air Force captain who was inside the Pentagon daycare during the Sept. 11 attacks is remembering the victims one mile at a time. Capt.
Like scores of other Americans, Gold Star wife Lisa Hallett will spend Sept. 11 thinking about and honoring those who perished in the terrorist attacks 25 years ago.
After a group of Navy SEALs walked into an ambush near Fallujah, Iraq, their medic was the first one to go down. When a Navy SEAL tried to pull him to safety, he too was wounded.
Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told a gathering of officers and senior enlisted Marines in North Carolina that they need to do more as front-line leaders to address the rate of suicides.
On April 4, 2003, in the middle of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, then-Maj. Gen. James Mattis entered the command post of Marine Corps Col.
On the morning of April 22, 2026, Blackhawk Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, began a 10-day collective training event at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany.
U.S. Army photo by Trey Woodard The life-affirming embrace of the wilderness has always filled me with wonder, its green arms making me feel more vital and connected with every plant, bug, and...
The Army has awarded a $464.8 million contract for a laser weapon designed to destroy the type of drones that Iran has launched against U.S.
In the parlance of military training, two Marine officers faced a key “Go-No Go” test last weekend in their long-shot hopes of playing NFL football. Both got their “Gos.” Marine 2nd Lt.
Crisp footsteps, metal soles tapping across granite. Precise rifle maneuvers as one sentinel relieves another of their solemn duty.
While the final week of August marked the return of college football, none of the military service academy football teams played last weekend. That is about to change.
The Navy’s top officer said sailors and their families should prepare for longer deployments until the service has a larger force and fleet. Chief of Naval Operations Adm.
Close to 50,000 soldiers around the U.S. and overseas spent a weekend night sweating out a 12-mile march after a small change in an Army regulation allowed soldiers to earn a unique foreign...
Holly Dailey grew up in a small coal-mining town in Pennsylvania as one of six kids; most of her firsthand knowledge of military life came from history books and movies, though her mother had served..
(Cover Image by Melissa Ambrosini ) By the time Michael Sherbakov visited the tiny apartment he grew up in back in Moscow, it felt less like visiting an old home and more like just visiting a foreign.
