What Does the Space Force Do? 4 Years After Its Birth, Glimpses of the Service's Mission Emerge Due to the highly classified nature of the Space Force's operations, broadcasting what it does is often not possible...
Tuberville Blockade Finally Concludes with Confirmation of 11 Remaining Four-Star Generals and Admirals All four-star military officers whose promotions Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., vowed to continue delaying have now been...
US Military to Screen All New Recruits for Heart Conditions Under Must-Pass Annual Defense Bill The requirement, included in the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, follows a series of deaths among military...
Space Force Reports 2 Suicides This Year, Marking the First in the Service's Short History Until this year, the relatively tiny and new Space Force had been an outlier among the other services as they have struggled...
Tommy Tuberville Is Just the Face of a 'Broken' Confirmation Process, Critics Say Anger over Sen. Tommy Tuberville's blockade of high-ranking military promotions may have hit a boiling point as a handful of...
The 42-Year-Old Airman: Air Force and Space Force Raise Max Age for Active-Duty Recruits Under a new policy change, active-duty Air Force and Space Force applicants can join up to the age of 42 -- meaning the...
Big Bonuses, Relaxed Policies, New Slogan: None of It Saved the Military from a Recruiting Crisis in 2023 Of the five Defense Department service branches, only two met their active-duty enlisted recruiting goals for fiscal 2023.
Guardian Gets Ranger Tab in First-Ever Achievement for Space Force Capt. Daniel Reynolds has been challenging norms throughout his career, and has broken several barriers as a Guardian.
After Criticism from Its Top Commander, Space Force Adopts New Mission Statement After the Space Force's top officer criticized the service's mission statement this past May, Guardians weighed in. Now, the...
Space Force Stands Up Honor Guard Program Manned by Guardians The Space Force has enlisted 16 new Guardians who will start the service's own honor guard program, one of the major public...
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...