CIA Benghazi team clash led to 'stand down' report
CIA officers revealed a clash over how quickly they should go help the besieged U.S.
View ArticleNavy expands sonar testing despite troubling signs
The Navy plans to increase sonar testing over the next five years, even as research it funded reveals worrying signs that the loud underwater noise could disturb whales and dolphins.
View ArticleClimate change is new enemy for Kerry in Vietnam
From an American gunboat decades ago, John Kerry patrolled for communist insurgents along the winding muddy waters of the Mekong Delta. From those familiar waterways that eventually turned the young...
View ArticleOhio seeks 41 years for Navy vets charity scammer
A mysterious figure convicted of masterminding a $100 million, cross-country Navy veterans charity fraud could spend the rest of his life in prison.
View ArticleGermany gets its 1st female defense minister
Germany's new government will feature the country's first female defense minister and the return of a respected former foreign minister, while Chancellor Angela Merkel's influential finance chief will...
View ArticleBuilding on MCMAP: Proposed research focuses on hand-to-hand skills,...
The Marine Corps wants to reshape how its troops are taught to think and act amid the stress and chaos of combat, and leaders are looking at the service's popular martial arts curriculum as the conduit...
View ArticleLeaders push voluntary exits to trim force
The most sweeping force cuts since the end of the Cold War have begun. And airmen must start thinking right away about whether they want to leave voluntarily or risk getting caught up in an involuntary...
View ArticleAs NORAD Tracks Santa, critics track NORAD
The U.S. and Canadian military will entertain millions of kids again this Christmas Eve with second-by-second updates on Santa's global whereabouts. But there's something new this year: public criticism.
View ArticleSoldiers to stay on Navy ships for Pacific exercises
Sailors working in the Pacific can expect to bunk with Army helicopter crews soon, if all goes according to plan.
View ArticleFive new conditions presumed service-connected in TBI victims
The Veterans Affairs Department has added five medical conditions to a list of illnesses that, if they are diagnosed in a patient with a service-connected brain injury, automatically are presumed to be...
View ArticleWork progressing on Minot B-52 bomber facility
Work is progressing on a B-52 maintenance facility at the Minot Air Force Base
View ArticleSenate confirms Johnson as new DHS secretary
Democrats used their newly initiated lower threshold for defeating filibusters Monday to win Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's nomination of former top Pentagon lawyer Jeh C. Johnson to...
View ArticleFast degrees for troops
Kaplan University is offering associate degrees to trained military medics after just four or five online classes.
View ArticleMade-for-movie model of USS Nevada being restored
From the time Nevada's namesake battleship, the USS Nevada, was launched in 1914, it has held a special place in the hearts of the state's residents.
View ArticleEducation briefs
U.S. military veterans, regardless of where they live, can qualify for in-state tuition from any of Michigan's public universities after three schools agreed to change their policies.
View ArticleSchools open campuses in booming markets abroad
Call it a twist on college study abroad. After a few false starts, U.S. colleges and universities are setting up campuses in booming markets overseas.
View ArticleBalancing school and deployment
Barbara Rutter loves a challenge. She excelled in one of the most challenging degree programs at Southern Arkansas University while serving in what she dubs the most difficult branch of the U.S. military.
View ArticleOp-Ed: Helms should be considered for next JCS opening
The seven officers on the Joint Chiefs of Staff have different backgrounds and experiences, but they have one thing in common: they are all men. Even though women make up 16 percent of the armed...
View ArticleSenate clears way for final vote on broad budget deal
The Senate voted Tuesday to clear a path for a final vote on the bipartisan budget deal, legislation that includes a provision that would limit the annual cost-of-living adjustment in military retired...
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