What's the Best Piece of Field Gear You've Ever Bought? We're surveying U.S. service members and veterans to find out what gear they use to supplement their standard-issue military...
Marine Corps Wants Lighter .50 Caliber Ammunition to Reduce the Burden of Weight on the Battlefield The desire to reduce the .50 caliber ammo's weight is part of the Corps' continuing effort to lighten its infantry and...
The Army Isn't Getting Rid of Its M4s and SAWs Any Time Soon, General Says The Army is moving quickly toward a replacement for the M4 carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon machine gun.
'Largest Purchase of Exercise Equipment Ever': How One Company Supplied Gear for the ACFT Once Sorinex secured the deal with the service, it was a mad dash to supply nearly half a million pieces of workout gear for...
Army Grunts May Get More Guns, But Less Ammo Next Year The Army is seeking a big boost in new weapons for combat-arms units in its 2022 budget request.
More Marines Will Test Lighter Polymer-Cased Ammunition as Experiments Expand to Fleet Marines will get to see for themselves how lighter rounds hold up in the field.
Deadlier, More Destructive Sniper Bullets Are High on Army's Wish List The Army just picked a new, multi-caliber sniper rifle. Now, it wants a new class of ammunition to make snipers deadlier and...
Trigger Finger Mittens on Marine Corps Cold Weather 'Snivel Gear' Wish List This search for better cold weather clothing comes at a time when the U.S. military is intensifying its focus on the Arctic.
Army Awards $50 Million Contract for New Special Operations Sniper Rifle The five-year contract with Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc. will buy 2,800 MK22 Multi-role Adaptive Design, or MRAD...
Goodbye, Tiger Stripe: Air Force Adopts OCP Uniform for Mandatory Wear Airmen will be required to retire their old "Tiger Stripe" camouflage for good and switch to the Operational Camouflage...
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...