Special Reaction Team Trains for Any Situation The special reaction team for Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans is part of the group of people who run toward danger.
Army Growth May Not Keep Pace with Deployments: General Even as the Army prepares to grow, Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson still worries about units not having enough time between...
Navy Wants More Ships to Expand Mobile Sea Basing Navy and Marine Corps leaders see mobile, off-shore bases as the key to responding to short-fuse contingency operations.
CNO: Navy to Hit Seven-Month Deployments by End of Year The Navy's top officer says the service is in shape to return to a seven-month deployment model by the end of 2016.
WWII Veterans Aim to Relive History with Restored PT Boat A PT boat that sank three German ships in the Mediterranean is being restored at the National World War II Museum.
Overtaxed Fleet Needs Shorter Deployments Heavy operational tempos during wartime have taken their toll on US Navy fleet and ship readiness.
Salvage Plans Progressing for Bulk Carrier Aground The Coast Guard is in the final stages of reviewing a salvage plan Thursday that is scheduled to begin Friday morning to move...
Bush Carrier Put on Standby for Iraq Air Strikes The aircraft carrier Bush could be the main platform for airstrikes against the Sunni extremists threatening Baghdad.
General Warns of Need to Boost Airlift Capacity The Air Force is working to upgrade its C-5 Galaxy fleet and keep its C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in key condition.
Dempsey: Too Soon for US Air Strikes in Iraq Martin Dempsey says the situation on the ground in Iraq is too muddled to permit U.S. airstrikes against ISIS extremists.
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...
