Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines Coming Soon for US Service Members Following FDA Approval The FDA issued approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine; Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said last month he would...
For US Military Leaders, Afghan News Strikes Personal Chord They urged troops to check in on their buddies, talk to each other and seek help and solace if they need it.
Pandemic Prompts Cancellation of DoD's Warrior Games for 2nd Year in Row First held in 2010, the Warrior Games are an adaptive sports competition for wounded, injured and ill service members.
US Forces Dig in at Kabul Airport as Stalemate Complicates Evacuations The Defense Department has no plan to get people trapped in Kabul behind a gauntlet of Taliban checkpoints to the airport.
DoD Records Deadliest Week of the Coronavirus Pandemic; Five Service Members Lost The reported deaths come as the Delta variant spreads, with 4,156 new cases of COVID-19 among troops in the past week alone.
Rush of Troops to Kabul Tests Biden's Withdrawal Deadline The newly arriving troops might have to stay longer if the embassy is threatened by a Taliban takeover.
COVID-19 Was More Widespread in US Military Earlier in the Pandemic Than Previously Thought, Report Finds Samples collected last year show a patient at Wright-Patterson had COVID-19 the same time as a soldier in South Korea was...
Pentagon Requiring COVID-19 Vaccine for US Troops Service members should plan to get a vaccine by mid-September if not earlier, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo.
Senate Confirms Del Toro as Secretary of the Navy The U.S. Senate on confirmed former Navy officer and ship commander Carlos Del Toro as the next secretary of the Navy.
Loss of Braking Cited in 2019 Military Charter Plane Incident The Miami Air jet hydroplaned off the runway and wound up in shallow water of the St. Johns River.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
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...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
