Navy's Top Admiral Opens New Command with Hopes It Will Combat String of Safety Issues In less than two years, the service has seen several major accidents, both afloat and ashore.
Details Emerge in Deadly Rollover Crash that Led to Charges Against Driver as Marines Identify Victims The Marine Corps identified the two Marines who lost their lives as Lance Cpl. Jonathan Gierke and Pfc. Zachary Riffle.
The Marine Corps' Aging Amphibious Vehicle Fleet Will Be Kept Out of the Water Eight Marines and a Navy corpsman died when an AAV sank hundreds of feet into the ocean during exercises on July 30, 2020.
The Top Killer of Soldiers, Army Vehicle Deaths Are Tied to Poor Training, Though Numbers Down Twenty soldiers died during on-duty incidents during fiscal 2021, according to an upcoming safety report.
Navy Recovers Remains of 5 Sailors Killed in Helicopter Crash Off San Diego The service said it recovered the lost aircraft from a depth of about 5,300 feet with the help of a salvage and dive team...
Navy Investigation into Deadly AAV Mishap Finds Issues But No Direct Link to the Sinking of Landing Craft The probe was launched in April after the Marine Corps fired a colonel, a lieutenant colonel and then a two-star general for...
2 Soldiers Die at Fort Bragg on the Same Day in Unrelated Incidents Four additional soldiers were injured in the vehicle mishap that killed Pfc. Patrick Hernandez.
Fort Bragg Soldier Killed in Humvee Wreck as Congress Weighs Safety Overhaul The deadly incident occurred just after noon on a main base thoroughfare and is under investigation.
Army Identifies Green Beret Who Died During Dive Training in Reservoir The Army identified the soldier as Staff Sgt. Paul Lincoln Olmstead, who died Tuesday during a water training exercise at the...
Soldier's Body Recovered from Reservoir After Dive Training Death Army dive training is usually conducted with strict safety measures and consists of soldiers spending long periods of time...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
