Service chiefs warn of sequester's 'insidious' effects
Senior U.S. military leaders on Wednesday renewed their dire warnings about further defense budget cuts, predicting that a slew of weapon system purchases could be canceled or delayed.
View ArticleGeneral: DoD needs ISR fleet for contested environments
The Pentagon needs to move away from Predator and Reaper unmanned systems and establish a fleet of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft that can handle contested environments, a...
View ArticleNew website will help Rota-bound sailors, families get ready
Sailors and their families preparing for a forward-deployment to Rota, Spain, now have an easy online tool to answer their transition questions.
View ArticleAir Force's top enlisted: Roll call is back
Get ready to fall in: Roll call is back for the first time in nearly 50 years.
View ArticleStaff sgt. seeks answers after death of toddler
Examiner says 21-month-old died of trauma
View ArticlePutin: Syria chemical attack sly rebel provocation
Russia has strong grounds to believe that Syrian rebels were responsible for the country's chemical attack, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
View ArticleRocket trajectory links Syrian military to attack
The trajectory of the rockets that delivered the nerve agent sarin in last month's deadly attack is among the key evidence linking elite Syrian troops based in the mountains overlooking Damascus to the...
View ArticleUnion rep: Cutbacks cost lives in Navy Yard shooting
The Washington Navy Yard reopened Thursday in an atmosphere of sadness for those lost in Monday's shooting spree and controversy over the law enforcement response to it.
View ArticleJIEDDO Twitter account goes dark after jokes about Philippines bombing
The Pentagon shut down the Twitter account of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization after someone at the agency made jokes about a terrorist bombing in the Philippines.
View ArticleSoldier gets back the armor that saved his life
A Fort Bragg, N.C., soldier whose body armor stopped a bullet, and his wife gave a rare 'thank you' to the Army team behind the life-saving plate.
View ArticleParents of Benghazi victims: We've been left in dark
Parents of two of the four men killed in Benghazi last year testified before a committee investigating the incident that Obama administration officials have failed to answer questions about the attack...
View ArticleElite Army units to stop taking anti-malarial drug
The top doctor for Green Berets and other elite Army commandos has told troops to immediately stop taking mefloquine, an anti-malaria drug found to cause permanent brain damage in rare cases.
View ArticleAfter wreck paralyzes gay officer, his crew and community give back
An October motorcycle accident severed Cmdr. Brian DeLaney's spinal cord, ending his career as a skipper and turning daily activities - even entering his house - into challenges.
View ArticleKirtland resolves dilemma, issues IDs to same-sex spouses
When the Defense Department earlier this month ordered military bases to issue dependent identification cards to same-sex spouses of military service members, officials at Kirtland Air Force Base in...
View ArticleISAF investigates video of alleged detainee beating
Officials in Afghanistan are investigating a video purportedly showing a group of men wearing Afghan National Security Forces uniforms beating a detainee.
View ArticleEscape from the Navy Yard: 'I felt him breathe'
The first bang sounded distant and muffled. On the fourth floor, Bertillia Lavern assumed somebody downstairs was setting up for an event and had dropped a folding table.
View ArticleMan charged with hitting, dragging Army recruiter
A 52-year-old Minneapolis man was charged Thursday with striking two Army recruiters with his car, then dragging one of them nearly three-quarters of a mile as the man screamed, police say.
View ArticleHow can red flags be missed like Navy shooter's?
The government's sprawling system of background checks and security clearances is so unreliable it's virtually impossible to adequately investigate the nearly 5 million Americans who have them and make...
View ArticleKerry: U.N. must pass resolution on Syrian weapons
Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday called on the U.N.
View ArticlePhoto gallery: 7 decades later, Purple Heart given to daughter
Pfc. John Eddington was preparing for deployment to Europe in World War II when he learned his wife gave birth to a daughter. He penned a letter, sweetly telling the little girl how much he loved her...
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