The U.S. military community is celebrating the day the U.S. Air Force became an independent branch of the military. The USAF has been the world’s most powerful air force for its entire history — and it has plans to stay that way.

Secret aspects of a new pact between Russia and North Korea are more concerning than the missiles that Pyongyang has shipped to Moscow for use against Ukraine, the Army general nominated to command American and UN forces in South Korea told senators Tuesday.

Eight current or former Navy officials, including five admirals, could be compelled to testify in a bribery case against the Navy’s former second-highest ranking official that includes allegations of a spurned lover and an illicit deal sketched on a napkin, according to new court documents.

American airborne troops stormed out of their helicopters and took cover in some of the same fields where Allied troops took on the Nazis 80 years ago in a valiant attempt to clear the way to Germany.

The family of a WWII soldier who was killed in action in September 1944 during a fight in Germany received the New York State Conspicuous Service Cross at New York National Guard headquarters on Monday, 80 years after his death.

A paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne Division was fatally injured during recent training at a combined arms instruction facility in Louisiana, the Army said.

A P-8A Poseidon flew through international airspace over the Taiwan Strait, 7th Fleet said.

During an address to the Air & Space Forces Association, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said the Chinese Communist Party continues to heavily invest in “capabilities, operational concepts and organizations that are specifically designed to defeat the United States” and its Western Pacific allies.

The U.S. Coast Guard recently encountered four Russian naval vessels in U.S. waters near Point Hope, Alaska, the service said Monday.

An attorney for the U.S. Naval Academy said Monday that the elite military school should continue using race and ethnicity in admissions because it was not where it needed to be in building a diverse student body.

Sgt. Maj. Gerardo Trevino of the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego was arrested Wednesday by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Pvt. Jonathan Kang Lee, 25, who deserted to avoid his conviction on child sex charges, now faces a court-martial for a murder charge for killing a taxi driver as he attempted to elude authorities, the Army said.

In a ceremony at the commandant’s headquarters, the Marine Corps presented their highest noncombat medal to the parents of Cpl. Spencer Collart, who died last year in Australia after going back into a crashed V-22 Osprey to try to save the trapped pilots.

Pvt. Gage Kaiser, 19, was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter for a traffic accident that killed a Kansas police officer who was driving home after his shift.

Portions of three Army units have been deployed to Shemya Island off the coast of Alaska in response to recent Russian and Chinese air and sea probes into the Arctic region, service officials said.

The USS North Carolina fast-­attack submarine pulled into a Pearl Harbor maintenance facility Sept. 4 and joined two other Virginia-class subs, the USS Illinois and USS Colorado.

A military vehicle traveling on northbound Interstate 75 on Saturday was involved in a rollover crash in Roscommon County, Mich.

Three Wasp-class amphibious warships have suffered mechanical problems at sea in recent months — a pattern that some defense analysts said projects a message to other countries that the U.S. Navy might be unprepared for a fight rather than a powerful fleet ready to strike.

Soldiers who receive emergency travel money from Army Emergency Relief would no longer have to pay back half the awarded amount if a change advocated by the agency’s leader is approved.