Military

GRAND HAVEN, Michigan — The Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival has been canceled this summer due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, officials said Wednesday. Festival organizers announced the cancellation of this year’s event in […]

A gunman was “neutralized” after security personnel responded to reports of an active shooter near the north gate at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi at about 6:15 a.m. Thursday morning, Navy officials said. One sailor […]

AUSTIN, Texas — A Fort Hood soldier was found shot dead in a burning vehicle Monday in a town just outside the central Texas Army base, according to local law enforcement and service officials. Pfc. […]

Patients in the military health system whose scheduled or planned surgeries were postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic may soon be able to set up their procedures, under guidance released Thursday by the Defense Department. Military […]

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani vowed Sunday to speed up the release of Taliban prisoners and said he was ready to hold peace talks “immediately” with the insurgents after they made a ceasefire offer. The Taliban […]

When local business owner Gus LaFontaine signed up for U.S. Army National Guard fresh out of high school in 1998, he didn’t anticipate his service would include responding to a health crisis like the coronavirus. […]

The United States is pushing relations with China to “the brink of a new Cold War,” China’s foreign minster said Sunday, rejecting U.S. “lies” over the coronavirus while saying Beijing was open to an international […]

A bugle playing taps, gun salutes and the presentation of a folded American flag to a mourning family are hallmarks of the military funerals conducted daily for veterans at San Diego’s two national cemeteries — […]

Army Ranger Chaplain Maj. Jon Knoedler walks across a narrow beam 35 feet above Victory Pond at Fort Benning, Georgia, to offer perspective to soldiers wrestling with the uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic. During one […]

Each of their stories was different, but common strains repeat: Of humility and generosity; of finding joy in the unpretentious; of a sharp mind disappearing into fog or a hale body betrayed by age. And, […]