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About 100 female Marine recruits have been issued a new dress blues coat that looks more like the one men wear.

The Air Force is still inspecting its KC-10 fleet weeks after one of the aircraft experienced slide-raft deployment issues.

The wrecks of four ships that were sunk in the waters off Malaysia and Indonesia have recently been looted for scrap metal.

While one F-35A stealth fighter at Eglin was experiencing a nose gear malfunction, another F-35 experienced a bird strike.

The T-38 had experienced a series of failures in flight before it crashed 12 miles northwest of Laughlin Air Force Base.

One pilot was on board the F-35, but did not sustain any injuries as a result of the mishaps, the Air force said.

Seventy-eight of the 110 recommendations made after lengthy investigations into a spate of mishaps are "fully underway."

As useful as unmanned technology is, "it's not a panacea," Gen. McConville said at the Army Science & Technology Symposium.

An Air Force Special Operations helicopter went down in a non-hostile crash in Iraq, killing one service member.

The service plans to replace its primary search-and-rescue helo, but it will take years for new aircraft to reach the fleet.