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US Navy ship ‘intruded’ in South China Sea waters, China says
The U.S. Navy said the ship “was conducting routine operations in international waters ... consistent with international law.”
Top Air Force recruiter predicts maintainer, security forces shortage
As of the end of March, the midpoint of fiscal 2023, the Air Force was less than halfway to its active duty recruiting goal.
Can this new Air Force recruiting team turn interest into enlistments?
Just 1 in 30 people who show interest through the Air Force's website, or at an event like an airshow, end up applying to join.
Air Force expands cancer review of nuclear missile personnel
The review now includes personnel who worked on, guarded, supported or operated ground-based warheads at Malmstrom, F.E. Warren and Minot Air Force bases.
Mississippi set to execute Marine veteran for killing 16-year-old girl
Loden told investigators he became angry after the teen allegedly said she would never want to be a Marine, and that he ordered her into his van.
Slain teen ‘loved life,’ mom says before Marine vet killer’s execution
Former Marine recruiter Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. initially had stopped to help the 16-year-old girl with a flat tire.
By Emily Wagster Pettus, The Associated Press
Strategic Command’s No. 2 picked to run Air Force nuclear enterprise
Lt. Gen. Thomas Bussiere, a decorated B-2 Spirit bomber pilot, would replace Gen. Anthony Cotton.
What’s missing from the conversation on Air Force recruiting?
The Air Force says it’s having one of the toughest recruiting stretches of the past quarter-century.
10 years for veteran who hit cop with Marine Corps flag on Jan. 6
Thomas Webster’s prison sentence is the longest so far among roughly 250 people who have been punished for their conduct during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
By Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press
Air Force, Space Force may let in applicants who test positive for THC
“We have to be realistic today,” Air Force recruiting boss Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas said.
U.S. 7th Fleet commander sees increase in ‘unsafe’ intercepts by China
"It’s the provocative nature of the intercepts that’s got our attention, and we’re trying to understand it,” said Vice Adm. Karl Thomas.
By Zamone Perez