US Military

Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said Tuesday he’s ending his blockade of most military nominees, clearing the way for hundreds to be approved.

A 96-year-old Korean War veteran from Minnesota has been waiting for 70 years for a Purple Heart medal.

U.S. officials say the number of suicides among military members and their families dipped slightly in 2022, compared with the previous year.

Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project.

A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the 9/11 defendants too mentally ill to stand trial.

Days after a $100 million F-35B crashed in rural South Carolina, a government watchdog report released Thursday highlights ongoing maintenance delays showing F-35 fighter jets are “mission capable” only 55% of the time.

The pilot of a $100 million stealth fighter jet parachuted safely into the backyard of a home in South Carolina after a malfunction forced him to eject from the aircraft, causing the plane to crash into a wooded area about 60 miles away.

West Point was sued in federal court Tuesday for using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the lawsuit that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions.

The jet was left on autopilot over South Carolina after the pilot was ejected during a “mishap.”

The crash site for a stealth fighter jet that went missing during the weekend after its pilot ejected was located Monday in rural South Carolina after the military asked the public for help finding an aircraft built to elude detection.

The mothers did not know why their babies were dying at Camp Lejeune.
Jeri Kozobarich noticed something was wrong as soon as she arrived at the sprawling U.S. Marine Corps training facility in North Carolina, healthy and seven months pregnant, in the spring of 1969.

All Marine Corps aircraft, inside and outside the U.S., were grounded Monday after a stealth F-35 jet in South Carolina mysteriously disappeared, according to an order issued by Gen. Eric Smith, the acting commandant of the Marines.

The Defense Department on Thursday unveiled a website that’s intended to serve as a clearinghouse for declassified information on unidentified aerial phenomena.

Chemical and consumer product manufacturer 3M has agreed to pay $6 billion to settle numerous lawsuits from U.S. service members who say they experienced hearing loss or other serious injuries from using earplugs made by the company.

West Point cadets, historians and leaders came together on Monday for the big unveil. A time capsule found hidden in a Revolutionary War monument from 1828 was finally to be opened after months of waiting.

Three U.S. Marines killed in the weekend crash of an Osprey aircraft in Australia were identified Monday.

Eight U.S. Marines remain in a hospital in the Australian north coast city of Darwin after they were injured in a fiery crash of tiltrotor aircraft that killed three of their colleagues.

The contents of a long-forgotten time capsule recently discovered inside the base of a monument at West Point and believed to have been left by cadets in the late 1820s are set to be revealed.

A new report says the U.S. military academies must improve their leadership, stop toxic practices such as hazing, and shift behavior training into the classrooms in order to address an alarming spike in sexual assaults and misconduct.

A U.S. soldier was charged with murdering his wife in Anchorage, Alaska, four days after he reported her missing to police.