US Carrier Strike Group Embarks on Scheduled Deployment Amid Middle East Tensions The United States' most advanced aircraft carrier left its base in Virginia Tuesday for a regularly scheduled deployment that...
Military Moves Ships, Aircraft to Middle East as Senator Seeks to Stop US Action Against Iran The U.S. military has moved additional ships and tanker aircraft into the Middle East and hurried a carrier to the region...
Chinese Aircraft Carrier Seen Operating Deeper into Pacific The Liaoning and three other Chinese naval vessels were seen on Saturday around 185 miles southwest of the remote...
Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday -- the third since it...
2 Aircraft Carriers to Remain in Middle East for Another Week for Battle with Yemen's Houthis Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier to remain in the Middle East for a second...
Navy Loses Fighter Jet in Red Sea After It Slides Off Carrier Deck This incident marks the second Super Hornet that the Truman has lost while deployed to the Red Sea, and it is the third major...
UK Navy Flagship to Sail Off in 'Powerful Message' of Capability The UK Royal Navy's flagship HMS Prince of Wales is to set sail to the Indo-Pacific as head of an international Carrier...
Navy Secretary Says Need for New Shipbuilding Is 'National Emergency' at Hampton Roads Visit Speaking to media at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard after concluding his visit, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan emphasized the...
Another US Aircraft Carrier in Mideast Waters Ahead of Second Round of Iran-US Nuclear Talks A second U.S. aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United...
Hegseth Beefs Up Warship Presence in the Middle East and Will Have 2 Aircraft Carriers in the Region Hegseth has ordered the USS Carl Vinson, which has been operating in the Pacific, to begin steaming toward the Middle East...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-40-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
![Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-03/ApNewsroom_Hegseth_Mississippi_61363.jpg?itok=2kSBLn7n "Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, center, walks with Scott Burns, left, as they enter "A Southern Salute to the Troops" fund raiser put on by the non-profit 7 Days for the Troops Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Tupelo Miss. (Thomas Wells /The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal via AP)")
