Before he became secretary of defense, Robert Gates spent a career at the CIA when U.S intelligence agents were pitted against the KGB. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, has made clear his intent to remake the former Soviet Union. In an interview w...
The Obama administration is reportedly considering options to leave far fewer troops in Afghanistan after this year than the top U.S. and NATO commander for Afghanistan has recommended. The military believes a minimum of 10,000 U.S. troops must remain in Afghanistan after this year to...
After the Institute of Medicine in March recommended using the term Gulf War illness to describe symptoms affecting more than 200,000 Persian Gulf War veterans, a top Veterans Affairs Department official expressed concern that such a change would imply a direct causal link between s...
HELENA, MONT. — Russian nuclear inspectors visited the U.S. amid heightened tensions between the two nations to verify that 18 nuclear missile launch facilities had been demolished as part of a 2011 arms control treaty, Air Force officials said Monday. The April 9 inspection the fir...
Army personnel to take part in prayer event Army officials say they will not back away from participating in a Capitol Hill prayer event next...- 04/21/2014 Express Scripts to continue as Tricare prescription provider Express Scripts, the Pentagon's pharmacy benefit management company...
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullahs lead slightly increased in partial results for Afghanistans presidential election released Sunday, but he and rival Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai still seem to be heading for a runoff next month. The winner will replace Hamid K...
The vandalizing of military veterans memorials in Milton and Pensacola during the past year or so is prompting the stewards of those monuments to plan security measures, but theyre saddened at the need to do so. You know what surprises me about the damage in Milton is that this is ...
WASHINGTON — The United States is considering deploying about 150 soldiers for military exercises to begin in Poland and Estonia in the next few weeks, a Western official said Saturday. The exercises would follow Russias buildup of forces near its border with Ukraine and its annexati...
Gunnery Sgt. Richard A. Jibson will receive the nations second highest valor award on Tuesday at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., for bravery he exhibited during a five-hour firefight in Afghanistan. On May 28, 2012, Jibson, an infantry adviser with the...
The Russians arent fooling anyone. Thats the stark message from the Supreme Allied Commander Europe and four-star chief of U.S. European Command, Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove. In a blunt post on his blog Thursday , Breedlove said he rejects the Russians claim that their military...
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The Russians arent fooling anyone. Thats the stark message from the Supreme Allied Commander Europe and four-star chief of U.S. European Command, Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove. In a blunt post on his blog Thursday , Breedlove said he rejects the Russians claim that their military...
A veterans group will present a petition next week to the New York delegation of Congress asking that the Medal of Honor be awarded to Civil War Col. Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first unit of free African Americans recruited into the Union army. Shaw was killed while leading ...
Earlier this month, the Marine Corps quietly took leave of Nimroz province, consolidating its operations in Afghanistan to a single province and completing another chapter in its drawdown efforts. Nimroz and Helmand, bordering provinces along Afghanistans southern tip, comprise Regio...
Veterans advocates are denouncing an opinion piece in the New York Times that draws links between veterans and white supremacist groups in attempting to explain the actions of the suspected gunman in a recent and deadly shooting outside a Kansas Jewish center. Frazier Glenn Cross, als...
High in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the enemy ambush was quick and deadly. Spc. Kyle Whites platoon leader was dead, as was a Marine sergeant tasked with advising Afghan soldiers. A fellow paratrooper was wounded, and at least three others were missing. White, already dazed...
High in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the enemy ambush was quick and deadly. Spc. Kyle Whites platoon leader was dead, as was a Marine sergeant tasked with advising Afghan soldiers. A fellow paratrooper was wounded, and at least three others were missing. White, already dazed...
Brad Pitt will reportedly play Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal in the movie adaptation of a book written by the reporter who got McChrystal fired. McChrystal resigned as commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan following a scathing June 2010 article in Rolling Stone by Michael Ha...
When they contracted with the Vets Prevail program late last year, Veterans Affairs Department officials hoped the Web-based mental health resource could enroll about 2,200 new veterans in its anonymous counseling over a year. The program reached that number in a little more than thre...
An Army general is upholding Pvt. Chelsea Mannings conviction and 35-year prison sentence for giving reams of classified U.S. government information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The Military District of Washington said Monday that Maj. Gen. Jeffery Buchanan has taken final ...
A Russian fighter jet on Saturday made repeated provocative close-range, low-altitude passes above the U.S. Navy destroyer Donald Cook while it was steaming in the Black Sea, heightening Cold War-style tensions that have continued to escalate for weeks, a defense official said. The ...
A Russian fighter jet on Saturday made repeated provocative close-range, low-altitude passes above the U.S. Navy destroyer Donald Cook while it was steaming in the Black Sea, heightening Cold War-style tensions that have continued to escalate for weeks, a defense official said. The ...
WASHINGTON — A U.S. military official says a Russian fighter jet made multiple, close-range passes near an American warship in the Black Sea for more than 90 minutes Saturday amid escalating tensions in the region. The official says the fighter flew within 1,000 yards (900 meters) of ...
Troops transitioning out of the military often worry that the jobs they did in uniform will be irrelevant to the jobs they want out of uniform. Theyre often wrong. Weve seen that 85 percent of military jobs have a direct civilian counterpart at Verizon, said Evan Guzman, the compa...
KEY WEST, FLA. — An underwater combat training school in Key West is marking its 50th anniversary. The Army Special Forces Underwater Operations School boasts a $10 million complex with a modern training pool and 50-foot dive tower, as well as boats especially designed for special ope...
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave Poison lead singer Bret Michaels something to believe in when they sang a duet together on Thursday. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey and Michaels were presenting Thursday at the sixth annual Military Child of the Year awards , which recognized f...
Stephen Colbert will be the next host of CBS Late Show, drawing congratulations from retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, former commander of U.S. troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It is great to see a figure who has been such a tremendous supporter of our men and women in uniform...
Responding to a Rand Corp. report issued last week on challenges facing those who care for ill or injured veterans, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., on Thursday introduced a bill that would increase federal support for this largely invisible group. More than 5 million Americans provide car...
Military officials are investigating after a Marine gate guard killed a Marine colleague with his M4 service rifle Tuesday evening aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C. The incident is not being considered an act of terrorism or an active-shooter scenario like last weeks deadly rampage at Fort H...
In the wake of last weeks shooting on Fort Hood many soldiers and some lawmakers are calling on the military to reconsider allowing troops to carry concealed weapons on post. On social media and elsewhere, soldiers have been speaking out about their inability to defend themselves at ...
