The Feres Doctrine has been used to prevent military medical malpractice lawsuits since 1950 and has even limited the ability of people to bring military rape cases to civil courts. Nearly two dozen veterans advocacy groups want to change that.
In Beaufort County, S.C., environmentalists and military personnel have worked together for decades to conserve land. Unencroached stretches of land let pilots train in a realistic and unrestricted environment.
The Army knew for two years that it had a serial child predator in its ranks at Fort Cavazos and did nothing to stop him, allowing him to sexually abuse at least 120 children, according to a lawsuit filed by the mothers of two of the soldier’s victims.
The Navy-owned property once provided milk to future naval officers and is currently leased to Anne Arundel County. The Navy is seeking proposals for a mixed-use energy generation project on the land.
Roughly 9,500 US Marines and sailors and 3,500 of their South Korean counterparts are taking part in this year’s Ssangyong exercise.
Monarch Joint Venture, a nonprofit that supports butterfly populations, has been working with the Defense Department to monitor the insects at dozens of military installations in the U.S.
The Navy should rethink its protocols for analyzing groundwater samples near the defunct Red Hill underground fuel storage facility in Honolulu in response to questions over testing methods and a chemical plume in the aquifer, a municipal engineer said recently.
Five years after California’s worst modern maritime disaster, relatives of the Conception boat fire victims are angry about what they call the slow pace of accountability, while a top U.S. safety official says the Coast Guard continues to stall on reforms.
Two U.S. Marines from an amphibious assault ship visiting a city in western Turkey are safe after they were assaulted Monday by a group of protesters who have attacked American military personnel in previous years.
The USS Laboon returned to Naval Station Norfolk, Va. on Sunday after a challenging nine-month deployment to hostile waters providing deterrence and defense to U.S. partners in the Arabian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.