Travis Tritten

Travis Tritten is the deputy managing editor and Pentagon bureau chief for Military.com. He has 20 years of experience reporting on the military, government and politics in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2014, Tritten has reported from Washington, D.C., spending most of his time at the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. Previously, he was a senior defense reporter for Bloomberg Government, a defense and national security reporter at the Washington Examiner, and a reporter with Stars and Stripes, including seven years as a Japan correspondent.

Email: Travis.Tritten@Military.com.

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servicemen of the engineer-sapper regiment take the military oath in the Voronezh Region, Russia

Here's Why Putin Is Calling Up Veterans to Fight in His Ukraine War

Putin announced he will pull 300,000 troops from Russia's reserve forces -- veterans who have past military training -- and...

Arlington Confederate Memorial Should Be Removed and USS Chancellorsville Renamed, Panel Says

The 108-year-old monument should be stripped and removed down to its granite base plate, the commission will tell Congress in...

"End Sexual Assault" is written on a sidewalk.

Sexual Assaults on Female Troops Reach Highest Level in More Than a Decade

About 8.4% of female troops and 1.5% of male troops said they were assaulted while on duty during the past calendar year.

U.S. Air Force airmen guide evacuees aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III

All Troops Who Took Part in Afghanistan Evacuation to Receive Meritorious Unit Commendation Award

The uniform ribbon is awarded by the individual services and it can signify valorous or meritorious service in combat, non...

Lee Barracks at the U.S. Military Academy.

West Point and Naval Academy Should Scrub Names of Confederate Officers, Panel Tells Congress

The Naming Commission released the latest of its recommendations to rid the military of tributes to secessionists who fought...

Afghans inspect damage of Ahmadi family house after U.S. drone strike.

Military Gets New Office to Help Limit Civilian Deaths and Injury

Civilian deaths were thrust into the spotlight again after U.S. Central Command launched an airstrike on a compound in Kabul...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III.

Austin Returns to Pentagon After Kicking Second COVID-19 Infection

The decision to return was made after Austin tested negative for the virus on Sunday following a workweek of quarantining at...

Cpl. Jacob Fracker and Army veteran Thomas Robertson

Marine Vet Avoids Jail for Jan. 6 Riot After Testifying Against Army Vet Who Exaggerated Service Record

A former Marine combat veteran who broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 avoided jail time and was sentenced to probation...

Austin Catches COVID Again and Is Working from Home

Austin, who is vaccinated, said he received the positive test results and had only mild symptoms from the virus.

Spc. Kaylie Harris (left) and Sgt. Anthony Muhlstadt (right) both bought the guns used in their suicides at base exchange stores. (Photos courtesy of Carey Harris-Stickford and Tanya Mort)

These Troops Bought Guns on Base. Then They Used the Firearms to Take Their Own Lives.

Most service member suicides are tied to a personal firearm, according to the Pentagon's latest annual suicide report. And...

Permanent change of station, or PCS, moves are a fact of life in the military.

New PCS Survey Would Help Weed Out Bad Movers. But People Aren't Filling It Out

Military families were given a new streamlined satisfaction survey during permanent-change-of-station, or PCS, moves this...

Fighters secure an area during a demonstration in Afghanistan.

Our Next War in Afghanistan Is Already Looming. And It May Be Even Harder.

The dangers that kept the U.S. in Afghanistan for so long are accumulating again, little more than a month after troops left...

Russian troops walk in a destroyed part of the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine.

Russia Has Suffered Up to 80,000 Military Casualties in Ukraine, Pentagon Says

Russia is believed to have had 70,000 to 80,000 troops killed or wounded in fighting since it invaded Ukraine in February, a...

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army prepare for deployment to Poland from Fort Bragg

US Will Sell Poland Tanks to Bolster NATO Against Putin

The Pentagon is offering to sell NATO ally Poland 250 M1A2 Abrams tanks.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr.

US Air Force Chief of Staff Says Officials Considering Training Ukrainian Pilots

Gen. Charles Q. Brown's comments come as House lawmakers recently approved $100 million to train Ukrainian pilots to fly U.S...

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