The Unexpected Army: Stories of Those Who Fight for Ukraine Ukraine's army is stretched thin and wide, redrawing the boundaries of who serves and why.
Army Puts Political Operative in Charge of Public Affairs, Stoking Concerns of Creeping Partisanship While it's not unusual for political hands to manage messaging at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the ongoing change to...
In One of the Marines' Most Iconic Jobs, a Stunning Pattern of Suicide Marine Corps drill instructors are a national symbol of discipline. But for some, their imposing persona belies a dark...
'Open Cruelty': Transgender Troops Describe Indignities as They're Kicked Out of the Military Leaders in the Trump administration have minced few words in articulating how they feel about transgender troops.
Decades of Troubles for Air Force Maintainers Set to Get Worse with Job Consolidation Systemic failure sparks concern about specialty code consolidation.
Military Domestic Violence Convictions Skyrocketed After Commanders Were Removed from Process Courts-martial are on the rise for domestic violence charges across the Defense Department services.
48 Hours with Marines and Soldiers on the US Southern Border Amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, military assets and personnel are increasingly being relied upon for a...
How Trump Is Leaning on the Military to Fulfill His Hopes of Mass Deportations and an Immigration Freeze For transportation, detention, and potentially apprehension of migrants, the Trump administration is looking to the military.
Banned Books, School Walkouts, Child Care Shortages: Military Families Confront Pentagon's Shifting Rules At a public school, the protest might have led to a detention and maybe some revoked after-school privileges. But on a...
Over $151 Million Taken from Soldiers' Paychecks for Food Costs Spent Elsewhere by the Army The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops -- taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence payments...
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...
![Marines at the border wall](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/staff-border-wall-marines-wire-1800.jpg?itok=a3dIOHTu "Marines were deployed here to reinforce barriers during President Donald Trump's first term, but they were not armed with the long guns their Guardian Angels carry now, NPR reported. An old policy from the very unit these Marines come from said Guardian Angels must watch over their units' security with an "ambush mentality." (Drew F. Lawrence/Military.com)")
