Marine Corps Starts Reassigning Harrier Mechanics as Jet Closes in on Retirement While a seemingly small part of the overall force, the transfer of the Harrier Marines is part of the service's overarching...
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...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration from Sending National Guard Troops to Oregon A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Veterans, Who Saw One of Their Own Arrested by ICE and Charged, Say Feds Are Undermining Democracy Days after a 70-year-old Air Force veteran was among five people charged while protesting outside a suburban U.S. Immigration...
As Hegseth Orders Changes to the Pentagon Watchdog, Advocates Say It Will Silence Complaints Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s...