Marine Commandant's Health Crisis Spurs Senate to Set Up Votes on 3 Top Officers The Senate will vote on the nominees for the No. 2 general in the Marine Corps and the chiefs of the Air Force and Navy...
Marine Corps Commandant Hospitalized Due to Medical Emergency, Service Says Lt. Gen. Karsten Heckl -- a three-star officer who also holds two jobs -- will serve as acting commandant of the Marine Corps...
Gen. Mark Milley Says He Has Taken 'Measures' to Protect Family After Trump Suggests He Should be Executed Trump, who is running in the 2024 presidential race, claimed Milley would have faced death "in times gone by" for...
Leaders of Army, Marine Corps, Joint Chiefs Confirmed by Senate Amid Monthslong Blockade by Tuberville A Senate procedural maneuver by Tuberville this week forced Democrats to retreat from their earlier position -- that...
Democrats Circumvent Tuberville as Senate Moves to Finally Confirm Leaders of Army, Marine Corps, Joint Chiefs While acting chiefs can keep the military running day-to-day, defense officials have argued they are not as effective as...
Joint Chiefs Prepare for Vacancy at the Top as Senate Bickers over Confirmations Blockade The blockade on promotions is the work of a single senator -- Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. -- who is forcing the chamber to hold...
Army, Navy Will Be Latest Services Without Chiefs as Senator Maintains Block on Confirmations Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville is set to retire next week, while Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday will...
'Families Get a Huge Vote': Joint Chiefs Nominee Warns Officers Will Leave Military Due to Confirmation Delay Charles "C.Q." Brown, who has been nominated to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned senators that an...
650 Military Promotions Threatened as Senator Shows No Signs of Relenting About 650 general and flag officer promotions could be delayed this year by a legislative hold on Capitol Hill imposed by Sen...
Air Force Gen. 'CQ' Brown Is Nominated as the Next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs If Brown is confirmed by the Senate, the post will be handed over from an Army general to an Air Force general with...
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...