Military Obesity Policies Need to Catch Up with Science, Look at New Weight Loss Drugs, Think Tank Says The Defense Department should classify obesity as a medical condition and use available treatments to help retain personnel...
Federal Judge Rules Defense Department Can't Ban HIV-Positive People from Joining the Military A judge whose previous decisions changed the rules for HIV-positive service members to commission and deploy issued the...
Army's Pier System Now Faces Second Watchdog Review After Troubled Gaza Mission Following the seemingly bungled Army mission establishing a pier off the Gaza Strip to deliver aid to the region, the...
Lawmakers Ask Pentagon Leaders to Commit to Keeping the Military Out of Politics and the Election Lawmakers asked the defense leaders to reaffirm that U.S. law prohibits forces from being used for civilian law enforcement...
Prosecutors Seek Detention for Pentagon Employee Charged with Mishandling Classified Documents Gokhan Gun, 50, of Falls Church, was arrested Friday outside his home and charged with mishandling classified material.
Austin's Revocation of 9/11 Plea Deal Faces New Legal Blowback When the Pentagon announced last month that military prosecutors had entered into a plea deal with three accused Sept. 11...
New Military Blast Exposure Policies Direct Cognitive Testing, Keeping Instructors Farther from Fired Weapons New military recruits will get baseline cognitive testing and training instructors will have to stand farther away when some...
Defense Chief Defends Decision to Throw Out Plea Deal for 9/11 Defendants Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke for the first time on his decision to throw out a plea deal for the accused mastermind...
US Leaders Call for Calm in the Middle East, Even as More American Forces Head to the Region Top U.S. national security leaders are calling for calm in the Middle East and say they are directly pressing Israel, Iran...
US to Boost Military Presence in Mideast, Sending Fighter Jet Squadron and Keeping Carrier in Region The Pentagon has announced that the U.S. will move a fighter jet squadron to the Middle East and maintain an aircraft carrier...
Top Enlisted Leader at Air Force Special Operations Command Fired, Facing Investigation Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green, who advised on the readiness, training and quality of life of enlisted air commandos, was...
Army to Soldiers: Reenlist by Monday if You Want to Claim Incentives While it is not unusual for the Army to curtail incentives after meeting its retention goals, the troops were given little...
Former Air Force Commander Punished with 21 Days' Confinement, Forfeiture of Pay After Guilty Plea Col. Christopher Meeker, the former commander of Wright-Patterson's 88th Air Base Wing, was sentenced Tuesday evening after...
New Air Force Academy Mission Statement Drops Educate, Adds a Different Focus The Air Force Academy has rolled out a new mission statement that drops the word "educate" and adds in a focus on winning...
The Army Is Getting Rid of Athletic Trainers The Army is set to phase out its unit-level athletic trainers -- civilian specialists tasked with providing immediate care...
