Staff Sgt. Alonzo Alcantara of Cookeville, Tenn., was also charged last week with murder with the intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm, manslaughter, aggravated assault and obstructing justice in the Sept. 1 death of his spouse.

Fewer service members have filed “inconvenience” complaints in recent weeks over late pickups and deliveries of household goods under a new relocation system being phased in by the Defense Department, the head of U.S. Transportation Command said Tuesday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived in Hawaii on Tuesday and met with Adm. Samuel Paparo, head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. He next travels to Guam, then to the Philippines and Japan, to meet with senior U.S. and foreign military and civilian leaders.

Ken Stevens, who as a 19-year-old sailor aboard the USS Whitney saw the first bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor during the Japanese surprise attack in 1941, died this week in Powers, Ore. He was 102.

With the Army’s watercraft fleet trimmed by half in recent years and the “fully mission capable rate” for ships steadily declining, U.S. Army Pacific is attempting to tackle the shortage by maintaining and repairing vessels overseas and augmenting its fleet by leasing privately owned boats.

The Republican chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services committees pushed back Wednesday on the Pentagon’s reported plans to consolidate some of the nation’s combatant commands and cancel a plan to modernize the structure of U.S. Forces Japan.

Georgia Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock have launched an inquiry into reports of delayed pickups and deliveries of household goods for relocating military families under a new system intended to remedy such problems.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a “rapid” services-wide review of existing standards for military physical fitness, body composition and grooming, according to a Pentagon news release.

John G. Connolly, the chief pay clerk who died aboard the USS Oklahoma in the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and became the namesake of a warship that served off Iwo Jima and Okinawa, will be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on March 27.

Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, died March 1 in Alexandria, La., at the age of 102.