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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Jason Van Tatenhove, an ally of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes.

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President Joe Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Wilma Vaught.

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Monitoring PFAs, also known as "forever chemicals."

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Senior Airman Juanelle Carson pumps gas.

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Austin and Milley at virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

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Hearing on "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," on Capitol Hill.

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Pentagon spokesman John Kirby speaks during a media briefing.

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A U.S. commander who ordered a 2019 airstrike in Syria did not violate the laws of war or engagement, according to an...

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman with his brother, Army Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman.

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Lt. Col. Vindman told superiors that the president may have broken the law by pressing Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to dig...

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

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The full rotation of about 10,500 troops from countries such as Germany, Poland and Romania will likely take a couple of...

Airmen and civilians palletize ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine.

Training, Weapons, Intel: The US Military's Slow Slide Toward Confrontation with Russia over Ukraine

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