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The acting Marine Corps commandant is directing all units to review safety procedures following Sunday’s deadly MV-22B Osprey crash in Australia.“Marines, when we have any training mishap, we must conduct a thorough and harsh review of our…

HONOLULU, Hawaii—Navy divers have surveyed the bottom of Lahaina Harbor and finished a “very thorough” but non-invasive underwater search for remains in the continuing response to the Maui wildfires.A team of 21 Pearl Harbor-based divers…

This story was originally published by ProPublica. As President Joe Biden announces major reforms to how the military prosecutes sexual assault, the U.S. Navy is still shrouding those court proceedings in secrecy and fighting a…

The United States will train Ukrainian pilots and maintainers to operate F-16 fighter jets, the Pentagon announced Thursday.“We’re going to do everything we can to ensure that those pilots have the training and the knowledge necessary to be…

As Ukraine battled to push Russia out of the suburbs of Kyiv in March of last year, State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Mira Resnick got an urgent call from a U.S. military airfield in Germany.An allied cargo plane full of Stinger…

Active-duty service members and veterans thinking of harming themselves can get free crisis care. Contact the Military Crisis Line at 988, then press 1, or access online chat by texting 838255.In the summer of 2022, Craig Bryan, a…

Women fighting in the U.S. Army’s special operations forces face misogyny, gender-based barriers to promotion, and ill-fitting equipment, according to a 2021 report released today by U.S. Army Special Operations Command.Among the report’s…

The Army launched the second wave of its advertising push to boost recruitment numbers on Monday, building on its March re-launch of its 1980s “Be All You Can Be” slogan. The ad push comes as the Army continues to struggle to hit its…

The invitation to the Padre Island Burger Club in Texas came in while Marine Corps 1st Lt. Allison Bennett was out sailing on a friend’s boat. A flight instructor in her naval aviation training squadron texted that he was meeting with a…

A congressionally directed panel working on recommendations to give the Pentagon new spending flexibility released an interim report Tuesday—but acknowledged the Defense Department may not have the bandwidth to implement their…