Pvt. Jonathan Kang Lee, 25, who deserted to avoid his conviction on child sex charges, now faces a court-martial for a murder charge for killing a taxi driver as he attempted to elude authorities, the Army said.

In a ceremony at the commandant’s headquarters, the Marine Corps presented their highest noncombat medal to the parents of Cpl. Spencer Collart, who died last year in Australia after going back into a crashed V-22 Osprey to try to save the trapped pilots.

Pvt. Gage Kaiser, 19, was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter for a traffic accident that killed a Kansas police officer who was driving home after his shift.

Portions of three Army units have been deployed to Shemya Island off the coast of Alaska in response to recent Russian and Chinese air and sea probes into the Arctic region, service officials said.

The USS North Carolina fast-­attack submarine pulled into a Pearl Harbor maintenance facility Sept. 4 and joined two other Virginia-class subs, the USS Illinois and USS Colorado.

A military vehicle traveling on northbound Interstate 75 on Saturday was involved in a rollover crash in Roscommon County, Mich.

Three Wasp-class amphibious warships have suffered mechanical problems at sea in recent months — a pattern that some defense analysts said projects a message to other countries that the U.S. Navy might be unprepared for a fight rather than a powerful fleet ready to strike.

Soldiers who receive emergency travel money from Army Emergency Relief would no longer have to pay back half the awarded amount if a change advocated by the agency’s leader is approved.

A mix of U.S. Army units will deploy to Europe this winter, taking up position in Poland and other areas as part of a troop rotation focused on shoring up NATO’s eastern flank, the service announced.

The United States, Australia, India and Japan are planning joint coast guard and maritime police patrols amid growing Chinese activity in the region, according to unnamed diplomatic sources cited Monday by Japan’s Kyodo News.