Allied firepower in the Western Pacific will get a significant boost with as many as five US and British submarines operating from Australia by 2027, according to a report by an Australian think tank.

The decade ahead will require an international coterie of special operations forces to counteract malign advances by the likes of Russia and China, the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command said Wednesday.

Eugene Gardner had come all the way from Parker Heights, Texas, to see the USS Ronald Reagan transit the Puget Sound to the base outside Seattle and welcome home his son. The Ronald Reagan arrived for a six-month maintenance at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

NAPS is not a Department of Defense school or under the jurisdiction of the Maryland State Department of Education, but most student families are affiliated with the military.

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Tuesday that its Mission Technologies division in Fairborn, Ohio, was awarded a $209 million contract to support the development and sustainment of Air Force fighter and bomber weapons systems and subsystems.

Since the end of July, airmen and guardian trainees have been carrying inert M4 rifles — marked with distinctive red flash suppressors — as part of their daily regimen, a practice that stopped in 2012.

Two members of the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment are the first in the Marine Corps to be promoted at a Japanese army base on Ishigaki, 150 miles west of Taiwan.

Sailors manned the rails of the USS Ronald Reagan on Tuesday as the aircraft carrier steamed through Puget Sound toward Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Wash., for a scheduled overhaul.

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff announced major progress in efforts to bring a squadron of F-35 aircraft to Valdosta’s Moody Air Force Base following a meeting with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin.

Sgt. Korbein Schultz, an Army intelligence analyst, entered a guilty plea Tuesday in federal court to charges of selling sensitive information related to U.S. military capabilities, including dozens of documents addressing topics ranging from rocket systems to Chinese military tactics.

A decorated soldier assigned to Army Central Command died Sunday while exercising. Lt. Col. Roderick Vinson, 55, was a transportation officer assigned to the Army Central Command at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, S.C.

A Special Forces officer who killed a Chechen immigrant conducting utility work on his property in North Carolina will not face charges after a three-month investigation into the shooting.

The Army charged Spc. Riley Birbilas on Monday with counts of premediated murder in the death of Spc. Jacob Ashton. They had both served on a recent nine-month deployment to Iraq and Syria.

Brig. Gen. Jacob Middleton took over as the commander of U.S. Space Forces in Europe-Space Forces Africa during a ceremony Tuesday at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

A lightning strike last week at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo knocked out power to the base commissary, causing the overnight loss of at least $50,000 in perishable food items.

Cpl. Spencer Collart, who died last August trying to rescue two fellow Marines from a fiery Osprey crash in Australia, will be posthumously honored with the service’s highest noncombat award: the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, awarded for acts of heroism at great risk to the servicemember’s life.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche returned to homeport in Alameda, Calif., on Sunday after 120 days on patrol in the Indo-Pacific region. Family and friends were there to greet the crew.

A U.S. Army soldier was paired with a NATO ally for the first time to compete in the eighth annual European Best Sniper Team Competition.

Mountain adventure enthusiast Nicolaus Marshall is on the mend and already envisioning his next climb, after the quick wits of an employee at Ramstein Air Base who helped him out of an Alps-sized scare.