Here's a look at the most popular stories this week on Military.com.
Commandant: 'I Will Not Break Faith' With Transgender Coast Guardsmen
As military services await guidance following President Donald Trump's announcement last week via Twitter of a ban on transgender service members, the commandant of the Coast Guard is speaking out, saying he has no intention of leaving transgender Coast Guardsmen out in the cold.
By Hope Hodge Seck at Military.com | Read more
Report: Navy Pilot Breaks Silence About Shooting Down Syrian Fighter
The first U.S. pilot to notch an air-to-air kill in nearly 20 years, shooting down a Syrian Su-22 Fitter earlier this summer, recently made his first public comments about the experience, telling British journalists the entire encounter lasted only eight minutes.
By Hope Hodge Seck | Read more
Air Force Gets Creative to Tackle Pilot Shortage
The Air Force's pilot shortage has leaders worried not only about filling gaps in the immediate future, but also how the military and civilian airlines may suffer without fine-tuned aviators in decades to come.
By Oriana Pawlyk at Military.com | Read more
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- Trump: MoH Recipient 'Gave His All and Then He Just Kept Giving'
- Transgender Soldier Fears Life Setback After Trump's Tweet
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- Navy Probe Blames Captain’s Judgment in USS Antietam Grounding
- Blue Angels Sideline 'Fat Albert' Amid Probe into Deadly Marine Crash
Most Read in Air Force
- Airman's Death During SERE Training Ruled Accidental
- Another Light Attack Offering Joins Air Force’s OA-X Fly-Off
Most Read in Marine Corps
- Raw Emotion, Gripping Visuals in New 'We, the Marines' Film
- Another Marine Recruit Hospitalized After Fall From Building
Most Read in Technology
- Future Battlespace Emerges as F-35 Variants, F-22 Train Together
- Chief Wants Tanks with Active Protection, New Armor, Driverless Option
Most Read in Gear and Fitness
Most Read in Business
- Bankrupted Russian Firm's Jets May Become Air Force One
- Lawmakers Rap Air Force’s Troubled GPS Upgrade Program
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Most Read in Entertainment
- Legendary Army Sniper Nicholas Irving Talks About Working on ‘The Wall’
- A Return to the Drug Wars in ‘Sniper: Ultimate Kill’
Most Read in Pay and Benefits
Most Read in Veterans
- Killer's Body Removed from Connecticut Veterans Cemetery
- Proposed VA Benefit Cut Angers Elderly, Disabled Vets
-- Sean Mclain Brown can be reached at sean.brown@military.com. Follow him on Twitter at @seanmclainbrown.
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-11/1time%20cher%20uss%20missouri%201200.jpg?itok=qi9yyMAM "Cher's more formal look in her 1989 music video, "If I Could Turn Back Time," filmed aboard the battleship USS Missouri. (Criteron Studios)")
