The Top 10 Military.com News Stories of 2024 This year's list includes investigations into abuse at military base child care facilities and alarming indications of cancer...
Hearing Loss, Asthma Won't Disqualify Air Force and Space Force Recruits Under New Policy The new waivers come as the Air Force managed to scrape by its active-duty recruiting goals, in large part due to policy...
Do Air Shows Really Help Military Readiness and Recruiting? Congress Plans to Find Out. Lawmakers want the secretary of defense to brief Congress on how sending military aircraft to air shows affects recruiting...
Navy Cuts Length of Boot Camp Amid Rise in Recruiting Totals The Navy says that, starting next month, it will shorten the length of its Basic Military Training program -- commonly known...
Female Teens Don't See Themselves in the US Military. Here's Why, According to Pentagon Surveys. Surveys find that just 21% of American females ages 16 to 21 were qualified to serve in the U.S. military compared with 25%...
Does the Military Need Social Media Influencers? New military influencers are popping up daily talking about military life -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
Camp Pendleton Marine Recruiter Arrested After Allegedly Contacting Minors for Sex Staff Sgt. Philip Rodriguez was booked after an internet crimes task force received a criminal report in February that...
Army Recruiters in Miami Will Pass Off Paperwork Duties as Service Tests New Strategy to Boost Enlistment The Army is set to launch a pilot program in January at two recruiting stations in the Miami area designed to cut through the...
The Army's Answer to a Lack of Recruits Is a Prep Course to Boost Low Scores. It's Working Started as a trial program two years ago to help boost dismal recruiting numbers, the prep course is fueling the Army’s...
Army and Navy Prep Courses May Be a Recruiting Crisis Silver Bullet. But Other Services Aren't Interested. The Army and Navy had early recruiting successes with new pre-basic training programs aimed at helping subpar applicants...
Army, US Allies Battling Swampy Terrain to Find 4 Soldiers Missing Since Tuesday in Lithuania The troops, assigned to the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, out of Fort Stewart, Georgia, were last seen aboard an M88...
Military Troops, Armored Vehicles Deployed to Big Bend National Park The U.S. military is deploying troops and armored vehicles to West Texas, including inside Big Bend National Park, as part of...
Roadrunner and Coyote: Navy Set to Deploy Land-Based Anti-Drone Systems at Sea Ever since the Navy repelled its first wave of drone attacks from the Houthi rebels, there has been criticism over the fact...
Senate Confirms Deputy VA Secretary as Department Preps for Mass Firings The Department of Veterans Affairs has a new No. 2 official after the Senate voted along party lines Thursday to approve Paul...
'Different Spanks for Different Ranks': Hegseth's Signal Scandal Would Put Regular Troops in the Brig Despite what amounts to among the most startling security snafus in recent memory -- one that would almost certainly trigger...