After Early Troubles, New Marine Corps Amphibious Vehicle Is Headed to Okinawa The ACV replaced the aging and troubled amphibious assault vehicle after decades of use and a 2020 mishap that killed eight...
Marines Can't Count on Navy Ships to Carry Them to Global Emergencies, One of the Service's Top Generals Says The readiness issue comes down to several factors, including overuse of amphibious ships during the last 20-plus years of war...
Humvee Use at Air Force's Nuclear Missile Bases Changed After 2 Airmen Died in Recent Months News that the bases are modifying the use of the vehicles comes after an airman died in Colorado in September and another...
Spate of Osprey Mishaps, Including Air Force's Most Deadly, Will Be Investigated by Federal Watchdog The Government Accountability Office agreed to look into the incidents following a request last month by Reps. John Garamendi...
Why This Navy Destroyer Flies This World War II-Era Battle Flag In honor of its namesake, the USS O'Kane doesn't just fly any old battle flag, but a replica of the "Battle Cat" flag that...
South Dakota Air Force Base Stops B-1B Lancer Flights Following Runway Crash The B-1B Lancer has been in service with the Air Force since the mid-1980s, and about 60 of the aircraft are left in the...
Marine Units Rotating to Indo-Pacific Don't Have Their Own Counter-Drone Capabilities, Commanders Say Some Marine units rotating to the Pacific to bolster security in the region against Chinese influence do not have organic...
US Military Searching for New Long-Range Sniper Rifle in Bid to Keep Edge over Russia and China U.S. Special Operations Command is searching for an "Extreme Long Range-Sniper Rifle" to replace the Barrett M107 and Mk 15...
Why the Skilcraft Pen Has Been Used by the Military Since 1968 The government's go-to ballpoint shows no signs of being replaced anytime soon.
Air Force Recovers Black Box from Deadly Osprey Crash in Japan as Search for Remains of Last Airman Continues The Air Force said the voice and data recorder -- often called the black box -- from a CV-22 Osprey that crashed in late...
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...
