Defense

How a Navy destroyer operating in the Pacific picked up coronavirus cases remains a mystery, but the top defense official said this week that a drug-smuggling vessel could be to blame. The destroyer Kidd became […]

Marines who fall outside the Corps’ height and weight standards won’t immediately face the hated tape test, due to special new exemptions put in place during the global pandemic. The Marine Corps has temporarily halted […]

The Pentagon on Tuesday released the identity of a 25th Infantry Division soldier who died this week while serving in Iraq. Sgt. Christopher Wesley Curry died in a non-combat incident Monday in Erbil, Iraq, while […]

The Navy resumed its toughest training Monday for sailors hoping to join the special warfare community seven weeks after pausing it over concerns about the novel coronavirus pandemic. Instructors will be shouting into megaphones rather […]

WASHINGTON — Pfc. Tyrell J. Audain was in the midst of a physical fitness test more than two weeks ago at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., when he collapsed. The Marine, […]

LONDON — WikiLeaks says its founder Julian Assange will have to wait at least until September before a British judge will hear a U.S. request for his extradition. Assange, who faces espionage charges over the […]

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The brother of a man charged in the death of a Sunday school teacher has been arrested after he flew to Arizona to pick up what he thought was a rifle used […]

HONOLULU — U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal technicians have detonated two World War II-era bombs and removed other ordnance in waters off a Hawaiian island. The Navy carried out the controlled explosions Monday in a […]

A T-38 Talon instructor pilot failed to take control of the aircraft when his student prematurely used a braking maneuver after touching down, causing the jet to collide with another aircraft, roll over and skid […]

The U.S. Army‘s experimental long-range missile just completed its latest test to show it’s just as effective at attacking enemy targets much closer than its maximum range of 310 miles. The service’s new Precision Strike […]