Marines Can't Count on Navy Ships to Carry Them to Global Emergencies, One of the Service's Top Generals Says The readiness issue comes down to several factors, including overuse of amphibious ships during the last 20-plus years of war...
Yemen Houthi Rebels Fire a Missile at a US Warship, Escalating Worst Mideast Sea Conflict in Decades The attack on the destroyer USS Carney marks a further escalation in the biggest confrontation at sea the U.S. Navy has seen...
Iran Is 'Directly Involved' in Yemen Houthi Rebel Ship Attacks, US Navy's Mideast Chief Tells AP Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of the Navy's 5th Fleet, stopped short of saying Tehran directed individual attacks by the...
Taiwan Says 6 Chinese Balloons Flew Through Its Airspace and Warplanes and Ships Also Detected The dispatch of such balloons, which generally disappear into the Pacific to the east, appears to be on the rise, though...
Why This Navy Destroyer Flies This World War II-Era Battle Flag In honor of its namesake, the USS O'Kane doesn't just fly any old battle flag, but a replica of the "Battle Cat" flag that...
The Top 10 Military.com News Stories of 2023 All of these stories helped the military community understand what was happening, and helped some receive the care and...
USS Mason Responds After Houthi Missile Strikes Norwegian-Flagged Tanker in Red Sea The assault on the oil and chemical tanker Strinda expands a campaign by the Iranian-backed rebels targeting ships close to...
Missiles from Rebel-Held Yemen Miss a Ship Loaded with Jet Fuel near the Key Bab el-Mandeb Strait Two missiles fired from territory held by Yemen's Houthi rebels missed a commercial tanker loaded with Indian-manufactured...
Who Are the Houthis and Why Hasn’t the US Retaliated for Their Attacks on Ships in the Middle East? When Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched missiles and hit three commercial ships in the Red Sea, it triggered an...
China Says a US Navy Ship 'Illegally Intruded' into Waters in the South China Sea The Chinese military said that an American naval ship had “illegally intruded” into waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, the...
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Fired After 6 Months: Army Sacks Commander of Germany Unit Meant to Bolster NATO Against Russia Lt. Col. Eric Ackles, commander of 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was relieved of command, the service...
Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits Rolled out with great fanfare in November 2022, toxic exposure screenings for all VA patients were mandated by the PACT Act...
Feds Settle Case for $2 Million After Skydiving Plane Took Out Marine Corps Osprey on Runway Nearly four years after a civilian skydiving aircraft collided with a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey sitting on a San Diego runway...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...