Vice chief discusses 3,000-man brigades, HQ cuts
Soldiers could be in store for significantly smaller, more technically advanced brigade combat teams, according to Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen.
View ArticleNew uniform rules: Reflective belts, light-colored shoes no longer required...
Reflective belts are no longer required during physical training, and airmen can wear black socks and any color of athletic shoe with the PT uniform, according to uniform changes that went into effect...
View ArticleArmy studying replacing thousands of grunts with robots
The postwar, sequestration-era Army is working on becoming 'a smaller, more lethal, deployable and agile force,' according to Gen. Robert Cone, head of the service's Training and Doctrine Command.
View ArticlePT belt axed in Air Force - should Army follow?
Soldiers have long bemoaned the rules that govern reflective safety belts, ranking them somewhere between laughable and absurd.
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This week's issue of Marine Corps Times includes your complete guide to insurance: home, life, auto, even pet policies, with tips to get you the right coverage at the best rates.
View ArticleParris Island gets tough on 'arrogant' drill instructors
Sgt. Korey Bromery was fuming. When he came upon his recruits horsing around in the squad bay bathroom, he ordered the entire platoon - some 70 men - into the showers where he made them run in place.
View ArticleJohn McGinty, who earned MoH for heroics in Vietnam, dies
Medal of Honor recipient and retired Marine Capt. John James McGinty III has died in Beaufort, S.C. He was 73.
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This week's issue of Army Times includes your complete guide to insurance: home, life, auto, even pet policies, with tips to get you the right coverage at the best rates.
View ArticleOn newsstands this week
This week's issue of Air Force Times includes your complete guide to insurance: home, life, auto and even pet policies, with tips to get you the right coverage at the best rates.
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This week's issue of Navy Times includes your complete guide to insurance: home, life, auto, even pet policies, with tips to get you the right coverage at the best rates.
View ArticleForce reductions: Your questions answered
With the Air Force preparing for the deepest force cuts since the end of the Cold War, airmen across the service are asking how the various force management programs might apply to them.
View ArticleInsurgent attack kills NATO service member in Afghanistan
An assault by suicide bombers and gunmen against a NATO base in southern Afghanistan on Monday killed one service member, the coalition said.
View ArticleIraq warns militants possess major firepower
Islamic militants controlling a mainly Sunni area west of Baghdad are so well-armed that they could occupy the capital, a top Iraqi official warned Monday, a frank and bleak assessment of the challenge...
View ArticleTougher screening starts next month
Tens of thousands of staff sergeants in-zone for February's promotion and retention boards have to act fast.
View ArticleGrants help military families buy homes
More than 200 military families in 40 states received grants last year from the nonprofit Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation to help with the down payment and closing costs to buy homes -...
View ArticleRussians study Islamic video threatening Olympics
Russia's counter-terrorism agency says it's studying a video posted by an Islamic militant group that asserted responsibility for suicide bombings that killed 34 people last month and is threatening to...
View ArticleSyrian opposition issues ultimatum on peace talks
Syria's main Western-backed opposition group said Monday that Iran must commit publicly within hours to withdraw its 'troops and militias' from Syria and abide by a 2012 transitional roadmap, or else...
View ArticleU.N. rescinds invitation to Iran to attend Syria peace talks
A last-minute U.N. invitation for Iran to join this week's Syria peace talks threw the long-awaited Geneva conference into doubt Monday, forcing U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to rescind his offer under...
View ArticleIran sends warships to Atlantic
Two Iranian warships set sail Tuesday for the Atlantic Ocean on their navy's first-ever mission there, state TV reported.
View Article70 years later, World War II Marine gets funeral
Seventy years after being killed in action during the 1944 invasion of Guam, a Central California Marine has received a funeral with full military honors.
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