Badges and Beards: The Air Force Wants Your Ideas for Future Uniform Updates Starting now, airmen and civilians can submit their recommendations through the Air Force's website "IdeaScale."
Soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord Are Testing Out Better-Fitting Body Armor The Army has been working to update its soldier protection system for women and men who are smaller in size.
Female Soldiers Told the Army They Wanted Pants, Not a Skirt, for Greens Uniform The Army's new Greens uniform will have pants as the default option for women, rather than a skirt.
Marines Want New Shoulder-Fired Rockets with Smaller Blast Signature than M9 Pistol The Army recently released a request for proposals on behalf of the Marines for the M72 LAW Fire from Enclosure munition.
These Marines Just Published a How-To Guide on Hiding from Enemy Drones A new manual aims to provide guidance to ground troops seeking to avoid detection against a growing enemy threat.
Air Force Will Switch to a Less Busy Camo Print for OCP Name Tape, Patches The trimmings on the uniform will now use "a lighter, three-color background pattern.
The Air Force Is Getting a Replacement for Its Cold War-Era Pistols The Air Force recently announced it will soon start fielding 125,000 of the Army's new Modular Handgun Systems.
Female Security Forces Airmen Are About to Get Body Armor that Fits Them The Air Force has inked a contract for body armor specifically designed to fit its female security forces airmen.
First Army Unit Gets New Squad Designated Marksman Rifle Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division this month became the first combat troops to receive the Army's new M110A1.
New Army Green Uniform Will Soon Be Available for Soldiers to Buy Soldiers will be able to start purchasing the iconic World War II-style uniform by late this summer, according to officials.
Naval Academy Staff Removed Display on Female Jewish Graduates for Hegseth Visit The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
My Black Roommate Opened My Eyes to an Air Force I Didn’t Know Existed I realized I had been sheltered from much of the world's ugliness and was more than a little naive. I thought the problems I...
4 US Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania Swamp When Their Vehicle Sank Are Identified The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...
![The "Mach 'V'" body armor system is designed for female airmen.](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2020-06/mach-v-body-armor-aspetto-1800.jpg?itok=o1A1KUPo "The "Mach 'V'" body armor system is designed for female airmen. (Image Courtesy of Aspetto)")
