Military

The maker of robotic targets that can move realistically, shout and even charge the shooter is now pitching a retrofitted version of his invention as a disinfection system that can kill the coronavirus in enclosed […]

FALLON, Nev. — On any given day, the remote desert valleys of central Northern Nevada can feel like the most peaceful places on earth. Until the noise from the jets arrives. Sometimes the disruption is […]

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Marines on Okinawa removed potentially contaminated soil near a Marine Corps Air Station Futenma hangar Friday following the spill of 60,000 gallons of potentially toxic firefighting foam two weeks earlier. […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — A report by the U.N. mission in Afghanistan on Monday noted a drop in the number of civilians killed in violence in the first three months of this year, compared to the […]

For just the second time since it was activated in 2008, U.S. Africa Command is admitting it killed civilians in an airstrike targeting terrorists. On Monday, the command released a first-of-its-kind quarterly report tracking civilian […]

Hundreds of Marine poolees arrived at boot camp in South Carolina last week, but their training experience during the novel coronavirus pandemic will be anything but ordinary. Drill instructors and recruits are wearing masks; dining […]

Backed by a record $240 billion budget, the Department of Veterans Affairs has gone on a hiring spree to fill long-vacant spots as it battles coronavirus, pulling from the ranks of the retired and those […]

A Pentagon report that details U.S. military suicides and suicide attempts in 2018 showed a 13% increase in the suicide rate for active-duty personnel compared with the previous year, with the Marine Corps suffering the […]

The U.S. Navy has officially acknowledged three incidents reported by F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilots of “unidentified aerial phenomena” — what most refer to as UFOs — and released video of the encounters. The Defense Department […]

Maj. Jason Engle had no reason to expect his active-duty Air Force career would be brought to an early end when he went before a selective continuation board hearing in 2011. He’d served more than […]