Military

The Air Force will not resume physical fitness testing until October, the service announced Friday. Effective immediately, official fitness testing is suspended until Oct. 1 so airmen can stay safe and continue their efforts to […]

Sailors aboard the USS Zumwalt fired the first rounds recently from the destroyer’s high-velocity cannon, another waypoint on the ship’s segue into naval service. Test firing of the Mark 46 MOD 2 Gun Weapon System […]

Flight operations at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, have been suspended for a brief “safety pause” Thursday following two back-to-back crashes of stealth fighters less than a week apart. “The events over the past few […]

The court-martial of a Naval Academy midshipman charged with sexual assault and burglary has been rescheduled for July. The court-martial, scheduled for May after several delays, was postponed earlier this month for coronavirus concerns. Read […]

WASHINGTON  — The Trump administration notified international partners on Thursday that it is pulling out of a treaty that permits 30-plus nations to conduct unarmed, observation flights over each other’s territory — overflights set up […]

The U.S. Air Force may push back its set date for airmen to resume physical fitness tests as pandemic conditions continue. Spokeswoman Capt. Carrie Volpe told Military.com Thursday officials are currently reviewing “a few different […]

CARACAS, Venezuela  — Venezuela’s defense minister said Wednesday that planes and ships from the nation’s armed forces will escort Iranian tankers arriving with fuel to the gasoline-starved country in case of any U.S. aggression. Defense […]

The Marine Corps hasn’t yet finished fielding M27 infantry automatic rifles to all its grunt units as their new standard service weapon, but it’s already eying the Army’s Next Generation Squad weapon as its next […]

WASHINGTON — Kenneth Braithwaite was confirmed by the Senate in a voice vote Thursday afternoon to be the 77th Navy Secretary. Braithwaite is a 1984 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served in the […]

The incident involving an active shooter at a Texas naval air station was “terrorism-related,” an FBI official said on Thursday, making it the second Navy installation to experience an attack in less than six months. […]