More rain may hamper Colo. rescue efforts
The search for people stranded from the Rocky Mountain foothills to the plains of northeastern Colorado grew more difficult Sunday, with a new wave of rain threatening to hamper airlifts from the...
View ArticlePhoto gallery: World War II vet, 97, plays oldies for retirees
At the end of World War II, 2nd Lt. Vaughn Boone traveled across North Africa to entertain his fellow service members waiting their turn to go home. He performed music, magic shows, mind-reading acts,...
View ArticleSASC chairman: Expect 2014 budget cliffhanger
A cliffhanger finish to the 2014 defense budget is forecast by the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, leaving doubts right to the end of the year about funding levels, the size of the military...
View ArticleInd. Guard sergeant dies of illness in Afghanistan
Indiana National Guard officials say a sergeant from Indianapolis serving in Afghanistan has died from a non-combat related illness.
View ArticleReport: Radiation in bunker 7 times above normal
A military report says a contaminated bunker discovered at a West Texas military post had nearly seven times more than the level of accepted radiation.
View ArticleFormer Army Capt. Will Swenson to receive Medal of Honor for heroics in...
The White House announced Monday that former Army Capt. Will Swenson will receive the Medal of Honor, more than four years after he led a small contingent of U.S. military advisers through the teeth of...
View ArticlePassed over for speaking out?
He's his ship's go-to lieutenant. When it entered the locks of the Panama Canal on its maiden voyage last November, he was the officer of the deck.
View ArticleCommandant calls for new, smaller Marine Corps with 174,000 Marines
The Marine Corps commandant has called for the service to cut its active-duty force to 174,000 personnel, writing in a piece published Monday that doing so will allow Marines to remain engaged as the...
View ArticleLegion report: VA must do more to attract women vets
A landmark report on health care for female veterans finds that one of the biggest hurdles is simply getting women to think of themselves as veterans.
View ArticleRussia against use of force in Syria resolution
Moscow is insisting that a new United Nations resolution on Syria not allow the use of force, but Russia's foreign minister appeared to suggest Tuesday that the issue could be reconsidered if Syria...
View ArticleBase security tightened after Ft. Hood shooting
The Pentagon ordered the military to be on the lookout for troubled troops and civilians after the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, which killed 13 people.
View ArticleAfghan president says no rush for U.S. security deal
Afghanistan's president said Tuesday that he was in no rush to sign a security deal with the United States, once again dashing American hopes that a pact can be quickly finalized.
View ArticleMikulski to VA: Draft a plan to fix Baltimore claims office
The powerful chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee is giving the Veterans Affairs Department 10 days to come up with a plan for an attitude adjustment at VA's Baltimore regional office after...
View ArticleTrial to begin for 2 men charged in soldier killing
The homicide trial of two men accused of robbing and killing a Fort Campbell soldier began Monday morning in Judge John H. Gasaway's court with jury selection.
View ArticleSoldier from Fond du Lac drowns in New Mexico
A Fond du Lac High School graduate serving with the U.S. Army in Texas drowned Saturday in New Mexico.
View ArticlePrevent interview blunders
You're in the middle of a job interview and out slips something dumb and regrettable. It could be a comment like this one that a job hunter uttered and found himself immediately apologizing for: 'Why...
View ArticleInd. National Guard unit heading for Afghanistan
About 130 members of an Indiana National Guard unit are heading for a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan.
View ArticleNavy Yard victims were devoted spouses, parents and sports fans
Officials identified the 12 victims in Monday's Navy Yard shooting. None were active military personnel. They are remembered as devoted spouses and parents and specialists in their fields.
View ArticleConviction in Bragg soldier's 2008 death upheld
A North Carolina appeals court has upheld a murder conviction in the death of a Fort Bragg soldier shot outside a nightclub while celebrating his safe return after more than a year in Iraq.
View ArticleNewtown activists again lobby Congress on guns
Activists from the Connecticut town where 26 people were gunned down in a mass shooting at an elementary school in December headed to Washington on Tuesday to lobby again for gun control, a trip that...
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