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From the wildly popular traveling Van Gogh exhibit to the immersive “King Tut” experience that trades artifacts for hauntingly lit and realistic tableaux, museums everywhere are departing from...
Staff Sgt. Vohn Arnold grew up a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan. When the city hosted the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night, Arnold didn’t expect to be much more than a spectator.
The Navy and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) have dropped their initial opposition to disinterring the graves of battleship Arizona crew members buried more than 80 years ago as unknowns.
For over a century the M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun, known affectionally among troops as “Ma Deuce,” has been the staple small arms weapon in the United States military arsenal.
On the first day of the 2026 Best Sapper competition, 1st Lts. Bryce Sullenger and Christopher Barrett rushed to a swimming station, read over the task and challenge, and hit the water.
The Army is adding more soldiers to some of its most overworked units, creating a new job that will operate and maintain the service’s largest air defense systems, officials confirmed to Task &...
For two months, Congress has failed to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard. The resulting partial government shutdown has caused fear and uncertainty for many...
The eMerge Americas conference and expo brings together the leaders and emerging players in the some of the most advanced and in-demand defense technologies today.
The future of U.S. military aviation is unfolding. In the Air Force, the F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter is in the works, and the B-21 Raider stealth bomber is already flying.
Federal authorities have arrested and charged an Army Special Forces soldier with using classified information to place bets on the Jan.
The USA Wheelchair Football League (USAWFL), a program of Move United, will host its 3rd annual Veteran All-Star Game on Friday, April 24, as part of the 2026 NFL Draft festivities in Pittsburgh.
After decades of flying the AV-8B Harrier II and the F/A-18 Hornet, the Marine Corps is going all in on the F-35. Besides being stealthy, the jet has far more advanced sensing and data-sharing tools..
The National Guard tends to be the butt of a lot of jokes from fellow service members and civilians alike. It’s not without merit, as a lot of times, the jokes write themselves.
Share your story with VA’s largest research program The Million Veteran Program (MVP), VA’s largest research program, started in 2011 with the goal of improving health for all Veterans.
Every April, VA recognizes the resilience, strength and sacrifice of military children during the Month of the Military Child.
First, the Army got a remote-controlled Black Hawk . Now it is a step closer to getting an autonomous Chinook, after a CH‑47F Chinook successfully landed in testing without a pilot.
More than 80 years later, the remains of U.S. POWs buried as “unknowns,” or entombed in the holds of Japanese “hell ships” sunk by U.S.
The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed an Army soldier’s right to sue a military contractor whose employee detonated a suicide bomb on Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, in 2016.
Navy Secretary John Phelan is “departing the administration, effective immediately,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced on Wednesday.
Four days after a daring daylight rescue mission whisked a downed American fighter pilot out of Iran under heavy fire , a notice appeared on a federal contracting website.
In the spring of 1918, as American soldiers prepared to go “over the top” for the first time during World War I, a handful of army physicians began noticing a strange sickness that began to grip...
The Pentagon wants to add 44,500 active duty troops and reservists next year. The Pentagon’s proposed $1.5 trillion budget includes funding to buy weapons, conduct research and develop new...
The Marine Corps has upgraded valor awards received by Marines who guarded Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate in Kabul when a suicide bomber struck on Aug.
Every service member has stood in a barracks room at some point and thought, “This is it. This is where I live now.” Maybe it was a single room the size of a generous closet, or a bay packed with 30..
Combat soldiers will soon take a new fitness test that will determine whether they can stay in their jobs. The Army’s new Combat Field Test, CFT, is a pass-fail assessment for soldiers in “designated.
