Army Gen. Charles Hamilton, one of the service’s top generals, was fired after an investigation concluded he improperly intervened in a subordinate’s promotion, the service reported Tuesday.

The Navy is focusing on renovating its squalid unaccompanied housing and stepping up maintenance and management of living conditions. The effort is meant to address issues identified by a 2023 GAO report that found poor living conditions across DOD-owned housing.

Gen. Christopher Donahue, whose military career has been marked by long stints as a special operator, took charge Tuesday of the U.S. Army’s mission in Europe during a change of command ceremony in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Picatinny Arsenal, the Army facility in Morris County, N.J., has had 11 confirmed sightings of unauthorized drones flying over in its airspace in recent weeks, military officials said.

If passed, the bill will require the secretary of the Air Force to evaluate whether beards are compatible with an array of equipment worn by airmen, including masks that require airtight seals.

North Korea’s state-run news agency has criticized the establishment of a new U.S. Space Force command in Japan as part of Washington’s broader plan to seek “regional hegemony.”

The draft defense policy bill released over the weekend includes the authorization needed to formally set up a new center to coordinate northern border security, with its future home at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan.

Sgt. Christopher M. Vassey, 38, was returned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Liberty, N.C., after surrendering to federal agents on Dec. 3.

The future USS Arkansas, the 27th Virginia-class submarine, was christened Saturday in Newport News, Va.

The Air Force takes supplies to remote islands via military transport aircraft as part of Operation Christmas Drop. 

A U.S. Army specialist was killed over the weekend in a motorcycle crash near Camp Foster, according to the Army and Japanese police.

Residents of 27 recently renovated homes at Kadena Air Base must find new housing by the end of February due to “potential health risks” from leaky air conditioning systems, according to a base spokeswoman.

The seven-month deployment entailed high-profile exercises in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Baltic Sea, the latter of which prompted flyovers by Russian bombers, and over a dozen port visits.

Security experts say SpaceX has leapfrogged so far ahead in several critical technologies that it could deter major rivals like China from engaging in a war with the United States — or tip the balance if one breaks out.

The lawsuits filed by the mother of 24-year-old Navy Corpsman Devon Rideout alleged the Marine Corps and the California Department of Justice failed to properly submit information about the background of Rideout’s killer, a Marine Corps deserter.

Hundreds of volunteers crowded into a hangar over the weekend to decorate about 220 boxes of food, supplies and toys to be airdropped to isolated communities across the South Pacific. 

The U.S. Naval Academy may continue using race in its admissions process, a federal judge ruled Friday, brushing back an attempt by a group that had successfully overturned affirmative action in college admissions to extend that to the Annapolis-based military academy.

The Marine Corps activated its first F-35C Lightning II stealth fighter squadron on the East Coast on Thursday, with the reactivation of the legendary Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 251 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point near Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Navy officials in charge of the military’s main operating base in Africa put troops at higher risk of exposure to toxic air by not heeding environmental safety requirements, a Defense Department probe found.