Navy Growler Crashes into San Diego Bay During Landing; Crew Ejects The sea service said that the jet crashed while landing at 10:15 a.m. local time, but that both of the aviators aboard...
Air Force Sent More A-10s to the Boneyard in 2024, But It Continues to Use the Aircraft Overseas The hefty 57-foot, 6-inch wingspan close-support aircraft known as the "Warthog" has been in service since the 1970s, and was...
Navy Aviators Killed in Growler Crash near Mount Rainier Were Decorated Combat Veterans Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay "Miley" Evans, a naval flight officer, and Lt. Serena "Dug" Wileman, a naval aviator, both 31 years old and...
Status of Navy Crew Still Unknown as Mountainous Terrain Slows Efforts to Reach Growler Wreckage Soldiers from 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), based at nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord, are now assisting in the efforts...
Search for Navy Crew of Crashed Growler Aircraft Underway in Washington State The Navy said in a statement that the Growler belonged to Electronic Attack Squadron 130 based out of Naval Air Station...
Marine Corps Lays Out Plan for Harrier Crews as Stalwart Aircraft Flies into Sunset The Harrier -- once the bleeding edge of Marine Corps aviation with its vertical takeoff and landing capability -- is set to...
An American Beverage Company Is Giving Away a Fighter Jet, But For Real This Time Drinkmaker Liquid Death wants to succeed where Pepsi’s ill-fated AV-8B Harrier II giveaway failed.
Storied Marine Corps Jet to Make Final Appearance at Cherry Point Air Show as Service Transitions to F-35 The AV-8B Harrier II has been a tactical stalwart for the service since the 1980s -- and even before that, in different...
Air Force Wants to Send Historic Number of A-10s to the Boneyard in 2025, Continuing Shift Away from Warthogs The Air Force is hoping to retire more A-10 Warthogs in 2025, as the service continues to readjust its overall strategies and...
As the Marine Corps Says Goodbye to Decades-Old Jet, Its Maintainers Hit the Fleet for the Last Time The final class of Marines who will repair and maintain the Harrier's monster F402 jet engine is another casualty of the...
Naval Academy Staff Removed Display on Female Jewish Graduates for Hegseth Visit The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
My Black Roommate Opened My Eyes to an Air Force I Didn’t Know Existed I realized I had been sheltered from much of the world's ugliness and was more than a little naive. I thought the problems I...
4 US Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania Swamp When Their Vehicle Sank Are Identified The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...
![EA-18G Growler at Naval Air Facility Misawa](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-02/mil-EA18G-growler-misawa-1800.jpg?itok=VVONcoz- "Sailors assigned to the "Black Ravens" of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 135 prepare an EA-18G Growler for flight during snowy conditions at Naval Air Facility Misawa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jan David De Luna Mercado)")
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-05/1time%20liquid%20death%20dehydrator%20jet%20fighter%201200.jpg?itok=YHEp5ztR "It's called "The Dehydrator" because "it goes so fast, you'll pee yourself." (Liquid Death)")
