Senate approves defense policy bill
The Senate voted overwhelmingly late Thursday night to approve the defense authorization act, an 84-15 vote that paves the way for troops to receive a 1 percent raise beginning Jan. 1.
View ArticleAcademy stands by controversial 'ex-gay' official
The Air Force Academy's superintendent said Friday that the academy will not fire or transfer a controversial senior official who drew criticism in November for his extensive history of work with...
View ArticleSECNAV: Bribery scandal put Navy on the offensive
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, stung by the results of the service's investigation into fraud and abuse of ship servicing contracts, is making a number of changes designed to remove the temptation to accept...
View ArticleSenate confirms Navy's first female 4-star, VCNO
Senators confirmed Vice Adm. Michelle Howard for the service's No. 2 post on Friday, making her the first female four-star admiral in the Navy's 238-year history.
View ArticleXO and CMC fired over toilet hazing
An East Coast-based chief hazed his female shipmates by forcing them to march in formation to the end of a pier carting plastic bags of their own feces, a Navy investigation has found.
View ArticleObama orders military to review sexual assault
President Barack Obama on Friday gave the military one year to make progress on an epidemic of sexual assault or face potential tougher reforms, hours after Congress sent a sweeping defense bill for...
View ArticleOpponents of COLA cut to pensions petition White House
Opponents of a planned reduction to the annual cost of living adjustment to military pensions have launched a petition drive urging President Obama to veto the cuts.
View ArticleState Dept. requests more Marine embassy guards amid crisis in South Sudan
The State Department is calling on the Marine Corps' new Security Augmentation Unit to help shore up protection at the U.S.
View ArticleThe National Museum of the U.S. Air Force expanding
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, will begin construction in late spring on a new building to expand its exhibit space.
View ArticleU.S. military aircraft hit in South Sudan
Rebel fire hit two U.S. military aircraft responding to the outbreak in violence in South Sudan on Saturday, wounding three U.S. service members and heavily damaging at least one of the aircraft,...
View ArticleMan denies charge stemming from strip club killing
A former Marine accused of shooting a man to death outside a strip club near Casper has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.
View Article3 U.S. military aircraft hit in S. Sudan, 4 wounded
Gunfire hit three U.S. military aircraft trying to evacuate American citizens in a remote region of South Sudan that on Saturday became a battle ground between the country's military and renegade...
View ArticleCoast Guard Museum fundraising kicks up; 2017 opening planned
Donations have doubled in the past three months for construction of the National Coast Guard Museum, but there are still significant hurdles to meet the estimated 2017 opening, officials said.
View ArticleCNO: 9-month carrier deployments until 2015, at least
Carrier strike group deployments will continue at or near the nine-month mark throughout the new year, the Navy's top officer said, meaning some sailors will have to wait until at least 2015 before...
View ArticleU.S. nuclear missiles are a force in much distress
The hundreds of nuclear missiles that have stood war-ready for decades in underground silos along remote stretches of America, silent and unseen, packed with almost unimaginable destructive power, are...
View ArticleSame-sex ceremony held at Fort Bragg's chapel
The North Carolina home of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and the Green Berets is opening the base chapel to same-sex ceremonies.
View ArticleObama keeps eye on tense situation in South Sudan
President Obama said Saturday that continued violence and militancy in South Sudan would cost the world's newest country the support of the United States and other nations.
View ArticleJohn Eisenhower, historian and Ike's son, dies
John S.D. Eisenhower, the son of a five-star general turned president who forged his own career in the U.S. Army and then chronicled the history of the American military in numerous books, died...
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