Latest ""
Senate confirms new top Navy leader, vice chief for Space Force
Adm. Daryl Caudle, who has been the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command since 2021, was approved as the next chief of naval operations.
Medical cuts could cause irreversible damage
The proposed elimination of 18,000 medical billets, or about 20% of the force, could have profound and long-lasting consequences on the military health system, a former Navy surgeon general writes.
By Michael Cowan
Guardsman recalls Hurricane Michael, urges coastal residents to prepare for new season of storms
Riding out a direct hit from Hurricane Michael at Tyndall Air Force Base in October tested the nerve of this Air Force veteran, and spurred him to double down on preparedness plans for his family.
By Vicki Dean, Sarasota Herald-Tribune correspondent
Senate passes $19 billion disaster relief bill that will benefit Tyndall and Offutt AFBs and Camp Lejeune
The Senate on Thursday passed a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill that will help the Air Force and Marine Corps continue recovery work.
By Kent Miller and Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press
Col. Ned Stark on his provocative columns: 'I had no idea I was setting off a powderkeg’
"I had no idea the scope and the intensity that this would bring.”
Munitions from crashed F-16 safely destroyed
Munitions from an F-16 fighter jet that crashed through the roof of a Southern California warehouse were safely destroyed Friday afternoon and miles of closed freeway were reopened.
By Amy Taxin and John Antczak
Defense seeks pause in Navy SEAL case while probing spying
Attorneys for a Navy officer who supervised a SEAL accused of killing an Islamic State prisoner demanded prosecutors stop monitoring defense lawyer emails and put the case on hold, according to court documents obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Prosecutors in Navy war crimes case accused of spying on defense attorneys and Navy Times reporter
Military prosecutors in the case of a Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 installed tracking software in emails sent to defense lawyers and a reporter in an apparent attempt to discover who was leaking information to the media, according to lawyers who told The Associated Press that they received the corrupted messages.
Storm-ravaged bases wait on Washington for repair money
Hundreds of millions of repair dollars are at stake for several stateside military bases.
By Joe Gould
Pardoned ex-soldier initially didn’t take White House call
A former U.S. soldier from Oklahoma who was pardoned this week for his 2009 conviction for killing an Iraqi prisoner said Wednesday that he initially didn’t answer the White House’s phone call to tell him of the pardon.
Trump surveys hurricane damage at Tyndall Air Force Base
President Donald Trump flew to Florida Wednesday to survey recovery efforts and lingering damage from last year’s Hurricane Michael before holding an evening campaign rally.
By Zeke Miller, The Associated Press