Justice Delayed or Denied: The National Guard Struggles with Handling Accusations of Sexual Assault and Harassment Laws that don't follow federal doctrine, duty status and multiple jurisdictions allow units to mishandle or ignore reports.
Congress Pushes to Remove Sexual Harassment Prosecutions from Chain of Command Galvanized by Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen's murder, Congress used last year's NDAA to make a major change to the military...
Navy Secretary Pulls Sexual Harassment Investigative Authority from Unit Commanders Effective immediately, the message says, commanding officers must escalate complaints to the next higher-level commander, who...
Pentagon Links Leadership Failures to Violence at Bases Military bases with a high risk for sexual assault, harassment, etc., often have leaders who don’t understand violence...
Service Academies Report Highest Number of Sexual Assaults Ever More than 130 cadets and midshipmen reported a sexual assault last year, a 7.4% increase from the last time they had a full...
National Guard Leadership Grilled by Lawmakers over Sexual Assault Prosecutions Reports of sexual assault in the Guard have skyrocketed over the past decade, with 188 alleged incidents on state duty in...
Army Officer's Sex Assault Trial Paused over Unanimous Verdict Order by Judge Despite the legal wrangling, the unusual order is unlikely to herald a broader change in the military justice system and its...
House Approves Defense Bill with Pared-Down Reforms The House voted 363-70 on Tuesday night to approve the $768 billion National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.
Narrower Military Justice Reform Among Changes that Survive Defense Bill Compromise A major overhaul of the military justice system has been scuttled from a defense policy bill in favor of narrower approach...
Lawmakers Are Worried a Major Military Justice Overhaul Is Going to Get Stopped At issue is a provision in the Senate version of the NDAA that would take the decision to prosecute most major crimes away...
Army Swiftly Backpedals on Policy Dropping High School Diploma Requirement The Army has swiftly reversed a new policy that would have allowed potential recruits to enlist into the force without a high...
They Graduated Space Force Boot Camp. What Comes Next for Them, and the Service, Is Less Clear. Space Force continues to carve out its own identity after being created in 2019.
World War II-Era Boat Emerges From Shrinking Lake Mead Around 1,500 “Higgins boats” were deployed at Normandy on D-Day.
How Do You Create a Guardian? A Look Inside Space Force's First Specialized Basic Training Over three months, Military.com interviewed more than a dozen Guardians, drill sergeants, recruiters and officers, and...
Mom ‘Horrified’ After Autopsy Shows Son’s Treatment During Navy SEAL ‘Hell Week’ Training Kyle Mullen died Feb. 4 after completing the grueling first phase of U.S. Navy SEAL training called “Hell Week.
