Marine Corps Starts Reassigning Harrier Mechanics as Jet Closes in on Retirement While a seemingly small part of the overall force, the transfer of the Harrier Marines is part of the service's overarching...
Navy Growler Crashes into San Diego Bay During Landing; Crew Ejects The sea service said that the jet crashed while landing at 10:15 a.m. local time, but that both of the aviators aboard...
Air Force Sent More A-10s to the Boneyard in 2024, But It Continues to Use the Aircraft Overseas The hefty 57-foot, 6-inch wingspan close-support aircraft known as the "Warthog" has been in service since the 1970s, and was...
Navy Aviators Killed in Growler Crash near Mount Rainier Were Decorated Combat Veterans Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay "Miley" Evans, a naval flight officer, and Lt. Serena "Dug" Wileman, a naval aviator, both 31 years old and...
Status of Navy Crew Still Unknown as Mountainous Terrain Slows Efforts to Reach Growler Wreckage Soldiers from 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), based at nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord, are now assisting in the efforts...
Search for Navy Crew of Crashed Growler Aircraft Underway in Washington State The Navy said in a statement that the Growler belonged to Electronic Attack Squadron 130 based out of Naval Air Station...
Marine Corps Lays Out Plan for Harrier Crews as Stalwart Aircraft Flies into Sunset The Harrier -- once the bleeding edge of Marine Corps aviation with its vertical takeoff and landing capability -- is set to...
An American Beverage Company Is Giving Away a Fighter Jet, But For Real This Time Drinkmaker Liquid Death wants to succeed where Pepsi’s ill-fated AV-8B Harrier II giveaway failed.
Storied Marine Corps Jet to Make Final Appearance at Cherry Point Air Show as Service Transitions to F-35 The AV-8B Harrier II has been a tactical stalwart for the service since the 1980s -- and even before that, in different...
Air Force Wants to Send Historic Number of A-10s to the Boneyard in 2025, Continuing Shift Away from Warthogs The Air Force is hoping to retire more A-10 Warthogs in 2025, as the service continues to readjust its overall strategies and...
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...