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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Soldiers walk past a large American flag at Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia.

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Servicemen of Donetsk People's Republic militia walk past damaged vehicles.

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A Ukrainian serviceman fires an NLAW anti-tank weapon during an exercise.

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U.S. soldiers line up at at the Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase in Romania.

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A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighter runs in front of a damaged building in Raqqa, Syria.

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A U.S. Marine runs in snowshoes prior to Exercise Cold Response 2022.

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Congress mandated a panel outside of the military leadership investigate the ongoing problem of suicide.

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