WASHINGTON — The Stolen Valor Act, a bill making it illegal to profit from falsely claiming to have received a military valor medal, has passed the House of Representatives again on a 390-3 vote. The fate of HR 258 now depends on whether the Senate passes the same bill. Sponsored by R...
WASHINGTON — The Stolen Valor Act, a bill making it illegal to profit from falsely claiming to have received a military valor medal, has passed the House of Representatives again on a 390-3 vote. The fate of HR 258 now depends on whether the Senate passes the same bill. Sponsored by R...
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — The number of soldiers discharged from the Army for misconduct has risen to its highest rate in recent times, and some are wounded combat troops who have lost their medical care and other veterans benefits because of other-than-honorable discharges, according...
FREDERICKSBURG, VA. — Coast Guard Lt. Patrick Fernandez ran away from a field of more than 10,000 runners to win the sixth annual Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon on a grey and drizzly morning in Fredricksburg, Va. Not only was Fernandez overall winner at 1 hour, 11 minutes and 5 s...
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witchs brew of cancer-causing chemicals. But no one resp...
SANAA, YEMEN — A suspected U.S. drone strike killed four al-Qaida militants Saturday in a southern Yemeni province once overrun by the group, according to security officials. The officials said the attack took place around dawn in an area called Deyqa in Abyan province. Officials spok...
FORT CAMPBELL, KY. — Army officials say the manager of the sexual assault response program at Fort Campbell has been arrested in a domestic dispute and relieved of his post. Lt. Col. Darin Haas (HAHZ) turned himself in to police late Wednesday on charges of violating an order of prot...
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASH. — A military judge found Army Sgt. John Russell guilty of premeditated murder Monday in the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq. Russell now faces a sentencing phase of his court-martial to determine whether he...
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday dismissed Republican criticism of his administrations handling of the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya, calling the criticism a political sideshow. Obama was asked at a news conference Monday about recent disclosures that talking points...
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial trial for Army Sgt. John Russell has concluded. Now a military judge will decide whether the 14-year Army veteran was deluded by depression and despair as he shot five fellow service members in Iraq. Or he may decide Russell was taki...
WASHINGTON — The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. We knew where the responsibility rested, Thomas Pickering, whose car...
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO — Combat helicopter pilot Prince Harry of Britain along with Olympic swimming champion Missy Franklin joined an American naval officer who had been blinded in Afghanistan in launching the Warrior Games for wounded service members. Lt. Bradley Snyder, Harry a...
LAHORE, PAKISTAN — Pakistans former prime minister Nawaz Sharif looked set Sunday to return to power for a third term, with an overwhelming election tally that just weeks ago seemed out of reach for a man who had been ousted by a coup and was exiled abroad before clawing his way back...
REYHANLI, TURKEY — In one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in recent years, two car bombs exploded near the border with Syria on Saturday, killing 43 and wounding 140 others. Turkish officials blamed the attack on a group linked to Syria, and a deputy prime minister called the neigh...
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Britain's Prince Harry chatted and joked with wounded service members from the United Kingdom on Saturday at the Warrior Games, the U.S. military's Paralympic-style competition in Colorado. The prince, a veteran combat helicopter pilot, mingled with the 35-me...
Five more coastal patrol ships are moving to Bahrain starting this summer. The Tempest, Squall and Thunderbolt are scheduled to move from Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Va., and begin operations in the Persian Gulf this year, Navy officials announced Friday. Two mor...
WASHINGTON — Marines and other U.S. forces in Europe are on a heightened state of alert in response to a deteriorating security situation in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, a U.S. military official said Friday. The alert order applies to a U.S. special operations team based in Stuttgar...
WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency says that the Obama administration has discussed declassifying key data on U.S. missile defense in order to provide it to Russia. The administration has been exploring how to ease Russian concerns that the U.S. missile defense s...
WASHINGTON — The House Veterans Affairs Committee passed six bills Wednesday, including a measure aimed at making it easier for victims of sexual assault and rape in the military to receive veterans disability benefits and a provision barring Veterans Affairs Department executives f...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered a close-up and comprehensive inspection of all military offices and workplaces worldwide to root out any materials that create a degrading or offensive work environment. The extraordinary searches will be similar to those the Air Force condu...
A Veteran Affairs Department initiative to quickly and dramatically reduce the disability claims backlog will concentrate for at least two months on a smaller number of claims than previously indicated those at least two years old. When VA announced the initiative April 19, official...
BEIRUT — From Israels perspective, its airstrikes near Damascus were more about Iran than Syria: Tehrans shipment of guided missiles destroyed in the weekend attacks would have posed a potent threat had the weapons reached Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon. While Israel says it has...
Testimony from three State Department officials scheduled to appear at a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday will show that politics played a role from the start in the government's handling of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, a Republican lawmaker says. Th...
WASHINGTON — The launch of the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford has been moved back from July to November, a consequence of production delays identified two years ago. The move comes weeks after the Navy and shipbuilder Newport News Shipbuilding moved the ships delivery from September...
The Chief of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response branch of the Air Force was arrested and charged with sexual battery in Arlington, Va., over the weekend. Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, 41, of Arlington is accused of fondling a woman in a Crystal City parking lot shortly after midnig...
WASHINGTON — The White House asserted Monday that it's highly likely that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, not the rebel opposition, was behind any chemical weapons use in Syria. Responding to weekend airstrikes in Syria, the White House also reiterated its view that Israel has...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon for the first time used its annual report on China to directly assert that Beijing's government and military have conducted computer-based attacks against the U.S., including efforts to steal information from federal agencies. In a new report on the Chinese m...
SPOKANE, WASH. — A public memorial service is being planned for the crew of an aerial refueling tanker that crashed in Kyrgyzstan last week. The service is not yet scheduled, but will be held in the Spokane, Wash., area. Meanwhile, details are emerging about the three crew members who...
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Five U.S. service members were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the latest deadly attack against international troops since the Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive this week. The coalition did not disclose the locati...
BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be bound for Lebanons Hezbollah militant group, officials and activists said. T...
