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An Army Couple Had Their Daughter at a Military Hospital. Then the Collections Calls Started for $600,000.
You Cannot Go Back, and It Never Really Gets Better. Sometimes the Truth Is Cruel. Cheyenne Smith’s father died in December 2013 during a tour in Afghanistan when she was 14 years old.
What an All-Volunteer Force Looks Like Today 50 Years After America Ditched the Draft Despite what Americans experienced in the 20th century, the United States does not have a long tradition of conscription.
PTSD Doesn't Mean You're Weak, or a Monster "Having PTSD means someone suffered trauma and is experiencing a natural reaction to it. There shouldn't be any stigma...
Morse Code Explained Morse code, the language of the telegraph, is a system of communication that's composed of combinations of short and long...
Warning Issued to Troops Receiving Strange Smartwatches in the Mail The CID is considering the possibility that this is a deliberate operation by malicious actors -- criminals, terrorists, or...
A New Armored Vehicle Is Coming to the Army. It Could Be a Game Changer for Light Units, Vets Say. Unveiled June 10, the M10 Booker is the first specialized armored vehicle with a tank-sized gun to join the Army in decades.
The US Flies Nuclear-Capable Bombers in a Fresh Show of Force Against North Korea The U.S. flew nuclear-capable bombers to the Korean Peninsula in its latest show of force against North Korea, days after the...
US Aircraft Carrier Makes Da Nang Port Call as America Looks to Strengthen Ties with Vietnam The USS Ronald Reagan, along with the guided missile cruisers USS Antietam and USS Robert Smalls, arrived in Da Nang on...
A US Aircraft Carrier Will Make a Rare Vietnam Port Call as Countries Compete for Favor in SE Asia The USS Ronald Reagan, a nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, is scheduled to arrive in Da Nang on June 25 .
An Army Couple Had Their Daughter at a Military Hospital. Then the Collections Calls Started for $600,000. Missteps by Womack Army Medical Center and Tricare landed a Fort Liberty couple in collections.
Human Remains Have Likely Been Recovered from the Titan Submersible Wreckage, US Coast Guard Says The news came hours after the announcement that debris from the Titan, collected from the seafloor more than 12,000 feet...
Navy Recruiters Will Work 6-Day Weeks, Face Changes to Orders Amid Recruiting Struggle The move comes as the Navy, like most of the other military branches, struggles to meet its recruiting goals for the year.
Soldier Crashed Helicopter Before Running to and Crashing a Second in 2022 Suicide, Investigators Find The documents obtained by Military.com said Bellew had no history of diagnosed mental illness or suicidal ideation.
The Man Who Started to Transform the Marine Corps Leaves with 'No Regrets at All' The Marine Corps' top officer -- the man who has overseen a sweeping and much-debated transformation of the branch -- is...
Former CEO of Tech School Receives 5-Year Sentence in Largest Post-9/11 GI Bill Fraud Case The Justice Department worked with the VA Office of Inspector General and the Education Service of the Veterans Benefits...
Russian General Detained After Uprising Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the deputy commander of the Russian group of forces fighting in Ukraine, is believed to have...
Iraqi Muslims Protest Quran Burning in Sweden Hundreds of followers of the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protested this week's burning of the Quran in...
Plans For World's Tallest Flag Divides Maine Town Residents of a tiny community in Maine are balking at measuring patriotism by the size of a flagpole. (June...
Rebellion Shows 'Cracks' in Russia System, Per NATO Head NATO's chief said on Thursday that the weekend rebellion by a mercenary warlord in Russia revealed "cracks and divisions...
Poisoned Water: How a Navy Ship Dumped Fuel and Sickened Its Own Crew A years-long investigation reveals that the Boxer unintentionally compromised its own water supply in 2016.
Poisoned Water: How a Navy Ship Dumped Fuel and Sickened Its Own Crew A years-long investigation reveals that the Boxer unintentionally compromised its own water supply in 2016.
The Threat from Extremist Groups Is Growing. Service Members and Vets Are Getting Sucked into the Violence. The U.S. intelligence community deemed racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism -- with adherents such as white...
The Threat from Extremist Groups Is Growing. Service Members and Vets Are Getting Sucked into the Violence. The U.S. intelligence community deemed racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism -- with adherents such as white...
What an All-Volunteer Force Looks Like Today 50 Years After America Ditched the Draft Despite what Americans experienced in the 20th century, the United States does not have a long tradition of conscription.
Army Combat Veteran to Take Over Key Election Security Role Working with State, Local Officials Cait Conley will coordinate with federal, state and local officials responsible for ensuring elections are secure ahead of...
Military Ready to Drain Red Hill After Finishing Repairs The tanks currently hold 104 million gallons of fuel and sit just 100 feet above a critical aquifer most of Honolulu relies...
Class of 2027 Plebes Report for Duty at Naval Academy: 'This Is Not a Normal College Experience' Nearly 1,000 first-year entrants reported to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis on Thursday for Plebe Summer, the first part...
Pentagon: Chinese Balloon Did Not Collect Intelligence Over US Relations between Washington and Beijing had already been tense when the U.S. military detected what U.S. officials at the...
Space Force Still Figuring Out How Bad the Fuel Spill Atop a Sacred Hawaiian Volcano Was In the months since the fuel spill at a facility perched on the summit of Haleakalā, the Department of the Air Force has been...
Space Force Still Figuring Out How Bad the Fuel Spill Atop a Sacred Hawaiian Volcano Was In the months since the fuel spill at a facility perched on the summit of Haleakalā, the Department of the Air Force has been...
Alabama US Sen. Katie Britt Puts Space Command Spending Requirement in Defense Budget Britt's addition to the Senate spending bill comes as Alabama's delegation pursues reports that the head of the Space Command...
The Man Who Started to Transform the Marine Corps Leaves with 'No Regrets at All' The Marine Corps' top officer -- the man who has overseen a sweeping and much-debated transformation of the branch -- is...
Anheuser-Busch CEO and Marine Vet Answers Hard Questions About Bud Light Marketing Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth hired by Anheuser-Busch in 2013, and by 2021, he was leading the company as its chief...
Recovering the Titan 12,500 Feet Underwater Was Dangerous, Complex, Emotional Investigating the debris is a crucial part of a multiagency investigation into why the Titan imploded.
Coast Guard Apologizes for Mishandling of Sexual Assaults at Academy The service also acknowledged it did not widely disclose its six-year internal investigation into dozens of cases from 1988...