New Navy ship USS Nantucket commissioned while ‘stern to stern’ with the oldest Navy ship

The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Nantucket was commissioned at a ceremony in Boston, Mass., where it was moored “stern to stern” with the USS Constitution, the nation’s first warship.

Special ops veteran, last US military officer to leave Afghanistan nominated to head Army in Europe

Lt. Gen. Christopher T. Donahue has a long history in the Army’s most elite special operations units. And Donahue’s team was among the first to arrive in Europe in connection with a Pentagon push to bolster NATO’s eastern flank amid concerns about Russian aggression in 2022.

Former soldier locked up for intentional hit-and-run in Germany that injured another soldier

A former US Army specialist stationed in Germany is now serving a lengthy prison sentence for purposely ramming into a fellow soldier with his car.

Air Force Silver Star recipients among those honored for repulsing Iranian missile and drone attack

An Air Force officer who became the third woman to be awarded a Silver Star since World War II was among 30 service members recognized this week for battling a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones.

Immigration sting nets 10 suspected of working illegally at Camp Humphreys

Army Criminal Investigation Division agents and South Korean investigators apprehended 10 people during a sting at Camp Humphreys, according to an investigator.

‘Brothers left and right’: Marines rescue woman from rough water off Okinawa

A group of Marines on a weekend snorkeling trip last month used their training and teamwork to save a Japanese woman from rough seas.

US, Japanese airmen meet for inaugural softball competition at air base in Tokyo

Four teams intermingled with American and Japanese commissioned and noncommissioned officers faced each other during a full day of competition at Yokota Air Base’s Friendship Field.

IG offers scathing assessment of Navy oversight of Red Hill fuel facility in Hawaii

Navy officials did not effectively manage operations, maintenance, safety and oversight in accordance with policy and federal and state laws at the now-defunct Red Hill fuel facility in Hawaii, according to a pair of Department of Defense reports released recently.

Marine helicopter makes unplanned landing in northern Okinawa pasture

A Marine helicopter on a routine training flight was forced to make a precautionary landing Thursday in a goat pasture near the northernmost point on Okinawa.

Russia and China conducting joint Arctic operations for first time, Coast Guard says

Vice Adm. Peter Gautier, deputy commandant for operations, told lawmakers that the Coast Guard recently witnessed the Russian Border Guard and Chinese Coast Guard conducting a joint patrol high in the Bering Sea in a worrying sign of growing collaboration.

Colorado leaders brace for new fight over Space Command location

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, an Alabama Republican and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said that he anticipates Trump will make good on a campaign promise by issuing an executive order to relocate the command to Huntsville, Ala.

Army offers incentive pay to first-term soldiers who extend service for deployments

Soldiers approaching the end of their enlistment contracts in a unit scheduled for a rotational deployment can keep counting on an Army enticement aimed at getting them to stick around.

Throngs line up for first taste of Panda Express at US Army base in South Korea

Soldiers and their families stood in line at Camp Humphreys for the grand opening of a Panda Express, the franchise’s second location in South Korea.

US, Asian allies gather in East China Sea for more large-scale training

Warships and aircraft from the United States, Japan and South Korea gathered in the East China Sea on Wednesday to kick off their second large-scale exercise of the year.

Grassroots Iron Athena initiative tackles barriers faced by female airmen

Pacific Air Forces is recruiting volunteers for Iron Athena, a fledgling grassroots initiative focused on addressing readiness and retention barriers faced by female airmen and their families, inspired by similar “Athena” organizations throughout the Air Force.

Fort Campbell soldier gets 2 years in prison for taking sexually explicit photos, videos of soldiers, children

A Fort Campbell, Ky., soldier was sentenced to more than two years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to taking sexually explicit images and videos of children and other soldiers without their consent, according to the Army.

‘Our veterans deserve the best’: Lawmakers urge Army to restore horse-drawn funerals at Arlington

The return of military horses that have escorted caskets to gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery for more than 75 years will depend on the Army securing adequate pastureland, repairing rundown stables and improving training for handlers, officials said.

Military veteran gets time served for making ricin out of ‘curiosity’

A militia group had raised an alarm because they thought Russell Vane’s rhetoric was so extreme that he must be a government agent sent to entrap them. Agents found a test tube with ricin in his home. But prosecutors determined he was just experimenting out of curiosity.

Promising AI threat detection tool due for naval testing in wake of Army trials

Known as Scylla, the experimental software connects to surveillance cameras and turbocharges their monitoring potential, picking up on things imperceptible to the naked eye of a guard.