The Navy has not found the wreckage or crew of an EA-18G Growler jet that crashed on the east side of Mount Rainier, service officials said Wednesday.

The United States and its allies in the Arctic need to increase the number of sensors, patrols and intelligence sharing in the region to contain the expansion of Russian and Chinese forces in the far north, defense leaders said at a meeting this week.

Two MLB pitchers from Japan — one with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the other with the San Diego Padres — will face off in the playoffs starting this weekend. Both players can trace their baseball lineage to Japanese pitching legend Eiji Sawamura, who was killed fighting U.S. forces during World War II. 

Three more men filed complaints against the Army seeking $5 million each for failing to protect patients from misconduct by a military doctor facing a court-martial in one of the largest sexual abuse cases in the service’s history.

A soldier convicted of child rape pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he deserted to avoid the rape trial and killed a taxi driver while trying to flee from the Seattle area.

The Dustoffs extracted 900,000 wounded U.S., Vietnamese, and allied soldiers from May 1962 to March 1973. The Army said the medevac crews had a one-in-three chance of becoming casualties themselves.

The crew of the USS Indiana, a Virginia-class, fast-attack submarine that spent three weeks in the seas near the North Pole during Operation Ice Camp 2024, were awarded the Navy’s Arctic Service Medal on Tuesday.

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.

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 Nimitz, the Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier, is still on active duty, homeported at Naval Base Kitsap in Washington state. Deactivation is planned for 2026 and to be completed in 2027.