Medical professionals at this airlift hub in western Tokyo are prepping to administer flu shots ahead of other Indo-Pacific bases as flu season approaches. 

The Pentagon’s rare move to keep two Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East over the past several weeks has now finished, as the USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading home, according to U.S. officials.

The Pentagon has named Army Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson as the nominee to command U.S. Forces Korea, a triple-hatted position that includes leading the Combined Forces and United Nations commands. If approved by the Senate, Brunson would also pin on the fourth star of a full general.

A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested in Hawaii on charges that he repeatedly struck a police officer with a flagpole during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago, according to court records unsealed on Wednesday.

Roughly two dozen workers from a food distribution company spent Wednesday morning packing 240 boxes filled with dry goods, toiletries and household supplies to help newly arrived military families at Fort Cavazos.

The USS New York never forgets the events of 9/11. The ship, commissioned Nov. 7, 2009, cuts through the sea with a bow forged from 7½ tons of World Trade Center steel recovered from Ground Zero.

More than 100 mines have been spotted by U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft and allies in the Black Sea since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, the commanding officer of U.S. 6th Fleet said this week.

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith pledged this week to help the Philippine military develop capabilities to monitor its sea territory amid ongoing coast guard clashes with China, the latest top U.S. military officer to pledge support on behalf of the Philippines.

The USS Georgia — an Ohio-class, ballistic-missile submarine — joins two carrier strike groups in the Middle East, the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Abraham Lincoln.

An exercise at the Chicopee Safety Complex had participants mulling the regional response to a potential EMP attack, which could knock out power transformers and satellite communications. Officials from the Pentagon, Homeland Security and other federal agencies were in attendance or monitoring online.

The Navy doesn’t have enough manpower and training to keep its ships in shape for combat, a government watchdog agency said after interviewing sailors across the fleet.

A U.S. airman is under investigation after a weekend stabbing outside a Venice nightclub left a young man hospitalized in serious condition, the Air Force said.

A soldier who filed a sexual assault complaint ahead of her unit’s deployment was damaged financially by her boss’ reprisal but wasn’t wrongly denied a promotion, Defense Department investigators decided recently.

Japanese prosecutors asked for a 2½-year prison term for a US sailor who admitted running drunkenly into a group of Japanese pedestrians, seriously injuring four, at a beach in 2022.

American and Japanese middle and high school students gathered here for a weekend of cultural exchanges and entrepreneurial role-playing.

The amphibious assault ship USS America stopped in South Korea last week, its first-ever visit to the country in the ship’s nearly 10-year history, the Navy said. 

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked the promotion of an Army general who is a senior aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, threatening a confrontation between the Republican firebrand and the Pentagon, while reviving a months-old furor over the military chief’s medical secrecy.

A longtime civilian employee of Robins Air Force Base said he faced repeated discrimination from his bosses at the Georgia military post since they learned he was gay about five years ago, according to a lawsuit that he has filed against Frank Kendall, the service secretary.

Former employees of the company that owned an experimental submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic are scheduled to testify before a Coast Guard investigatory board at an upcoming hearing.