Navy Gives Drinking Water Quality Oversight for all US Bases to One Command After Red Hill Spill in Hawaii The new policy and oversight structure follows a massive fuel spill in 2021 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, that...
Contamination Around Fort Story Base Is Under Control, Navy’s 5-Year Review Says Long-term management requirements were put in place by the Navy and the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 to monitor...
What Is Tower 22, the Military Base that Was Attacked in Jordan Where 3 US Troops Were Killed? A little-discussed U.S. military desert outpost in the far reaches of northeastern Jordan has become the focus of...
Defense Department to Again Target 'Forever Chemicals' Contamination near Michigan Military Base Environmentalists say the systems will help prevent PFAS from spreading into the Clarks Marsh area and the Au Sable River...
A North Dakota National Guard Airman Was Shot and Killed in His Home on Christmas Eve Master Sgt. Nicholas Van Pelt, 41, of the 219th Security Forces Squadron, died during a shooting at his apartment in Minot...
Marine Veteran Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine Detained at Former Duty Station, Transferred to Japanese Authorities A former Marine lance corporal who refused the COVID-19 vaccine and was kicked out of the service returned to her former...
Inside the Pentagon's Painfully Slow Effort to Clean Up Decades of PFAS Contamination Oscoda, Michigan, has the distinction as the first community where “forever chemicals” were found seeping from a military...
'Forever Chemicals' in Thousands of Private Wells Near Military Sites, Study Finds Water tests show nearly 3,000 private wells located near 63 active and former U.S. military bases are contaminated with...
Military Barracks Are Falling Apart. Senators in Big Military States Want to Know the Price Tag to Fix Them. A bipartisan group of senators representing states with significant military footprints is pressing the Pentagon for an...
Closing a Chapter of History, Last Army Base Ditches Confederate Namesake Following Years-Long Effort The Army on Friday redesignated the last of nine installations that had been named after Civil War-era Confederates...
How Marines Took an Airfield in the Philippines in a Show Against China On April 30, three combined littoral reconnaissance teams made up of roughly 30 U.S. and Philippine Marines each, flown by...
Army Eliminates Online Training Requirement for Noncommissioned Officers, Saying It's Too Burdensome The Army has eliminated a significant part of its online training for enlisted troops -- a learning program that has drawn...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Air Force Pilot Who Died After Aircraft Ejection Seat Misfire Identified by the Service Capt. John Robertson, an instructor pilot from the 80th Operations Support Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, was injured...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...