The thrift store at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni south of Hiroshima reopened this week under new management, nearly nine months after the base commander ordered it closed for undisclosed reasons.

The U.S. Marine Corps has resumed flying its MV-22B Ospreys days after the U.S. military grounded the entire tiltrotor fleet due to safety concerns, according to a 1st Marine Aircraft Wing spokesman.

The U.S. Navy and the University of Hawaii have signed a 10-year agreement aimed at leveraging the institute’s expertise to bolster climate resilience and protect natural and cultural resources on Navy and Marine Corps bases in the state.

On the first day of court-martial proceedings against former Lt. Col. Bernard West III, prosecutors said lewd jokes, unwanted touching and partial undressing were a methodical campaign of sexual harassment by the former JBLM battalion commander.

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.