An Air Force Academy Cadet Pleaded Guilty to Using Magic Mushrooms. Is DoD Ready for the Drug's Legal Rise? The incident is another example of how the military and the federal government are lagging behind states when it comes to...
The 42-Year-Old Airman: Air Force and Space Force Raise Max Age for Active-Duty Recruits Under a new policy change, active-duty Air Force and Space Force applicants can join up to the age of 42 -- meaning the...
Big Bonuses, Relaxed Policies, New Slogan: None of It Saved the Military from a Recruiting Crisis in 2023 Of the five Defense Department service branches, only two met their active-duty enlisted recruiting goals for fiscal 2023.
Air Force Touts Success of Program Allowing Recruits to Meet Drill Instructors Before Shipping Out to Boot Camp The Air Force says a program allowing recruits to connect online with a drill instructor before arriving at basic military...
In Latest Recruiting Bad News, the Navy Was 7,000 Sailors Short for 2023 Despite Big Bonuses, Relaxed Entry Rules The sea service said it managed to recruit 30,236 active-duty enlisted sailors this year -- 7,464 short of its goal of 37,700...
Air Force's Marijuana Waiver Program Proves More Popular Among Applicants Than Expected The Air Force anticipated only 50 cases annually when it announced a new pilot program last year that would allow some...
Air Force Accepted Dozens of New Recruits Who Tested Positive for THC Under New Program In late September, the Air Force and Space Force announced a pilot program that would grant certain applicants who test...
After Missing Recruiting Goals, Army Announces New Occupational Specialty to Increase the Ranks The Army announced Tuesday that it is overhauling recruiting and creating a new career track for recruiters after failing for...
One Recruiting Environment, Two Different Outcomes for Army and Marine Corps The Army and Marine Corps are set to fall on opposite sides of what has become a recruiting crisis as enlistment estimates...
Air Force Refocuses 'Zero Week' of Boot Camp in Hopes of Getting More Recruits Through Keeping airmen and Guardians in the service and making sure they make it through basic military training has become a top...
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-Forty-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...
