The Air Force has selected 521 active-duty officers for promotion to colonel and major, according to an August 23, 2024 press release.

Artillery has always been integral to taking and holding territory, but its importance on the modern battlefield has been reemphasized by the war in Ukraine.

The top administrators for each school issued advisories Thursday evening to students, parents and staff. Tap water in the area is still safe for showering, toilets, handwashing and cleaning, the 31st Fighter Wing said.

A remotely piloted American military surveillance and reconnaissance airplane is making its first appearance in England on a temporary deployment.

Geilenkirchen Air Base — a NATO air base in western Germany with about 400 U.S. military personnel — lowered its alert level Friday, a day after intelligence indicating a potential threat led to heightened security.

Air Force F-22 stealth fighters arrived in Singapore on Wednesday for several days of combat and air-to-air refueling exercises over the South China Sea, according to U.S. and Singaporean officials.

Retired Maj. Gen. William Mullen, who was found dead in the guest quarters at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in June, died of a pulmonary embolism, authorities said Thursday. Mullen served as commanding officer at the installation from 2016 to 2017.

Staff Sgt. Marlone L. Best is charged with premeditated murder and murder for the February death of Larry Kidd, Jr., a 28-year-old father and semiprofessional football player.

The MQ-25 Stingray warfare center was installed aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, which is based at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. The MQ-25 Stingray is a tanker drone designed to refuel manned fighter jets in midair.

Thousands of Amazon satellites will be prepped for launch at a new facility nearing completion at the Kennedy Space Center. Adjacent to that will be this 42,000-square-foot expansion, that will allow Amazon to process and store more satellites for a busy schedule of launches from nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

It’s back to school on Marine Corps Base Quantico. U.S. Marines welcomed DODEA students and staff back to the classrooms with motivational high-fives and cheers at Quantico Middle/High School and Crossroads Elementary School on Wednesday.

Engineered as a wearable power source, the BCB is designed to integrate into body armor vests. It cuts equipment bulk and weight, the manufacturer said, adding that the device provides between 100 and 300 watt-hours of power.

The “Black Fly” is a single-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) that weighs just 313 pounds. Josh Lane, a test director for MTSI, said his company is trying to understand what the craft might do, experimenting for the benefit of the military.

An Army Reserve major and financial counselor who defrauded grieving military families out of nearly $4 million in survivor benefits has been sentenced to over 12 years in prison.

The new U.S. consul general on Okinawa said he takes “very seriously” the indictments this year of U.S. service members for alleged sexual assaults, according to a prefectural spokesman.

The amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego is on its way to Japan, where it will take the place of its sister ship USS Green Bay.

Quarried material for a new U.S. military airfield is once again being shipped to a northern port after a nearly two-month pause spurred by a fatal truck accident.

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer steamed through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday, the Navy’s first transit of the waterway in months and the fourth this year. 

Four years after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, a Navy research lab is recruiting active-duty volunteers at two bases in Japan for a follow-up study on vaccines.