The Army will slash nearly one dozen mandatory training programs for its soldiers in the summer as it looks to streamline their time to focus on combat readiness tasks. The new regulation is expected to be made official June 1 and will leave soldiers with 17 remaining mandatory training requirements.

Some 27,000 Vietnam veterans’ recordings, videos, photographs, drawings, letters and other documents are stored by the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project in a collection that’s still growing.

The SAVES Act would authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs for the first time to award grants to nonprofits to provide service dogs at no cost to veterans with disabilities. Qualifying nonprofits would have to meet standards established by an accreditation organization.

Mourners carrying wreaths and flags filled the streets in Lithuania’s capital Wednesday to memorialize four U.S. soldiers who died last week during a military training exercise.

The Air Force is reinstating flight restrictions for airmen in the early stage of pregnancy and elevating waiver decisions for expectant aircrew members from flight surgeons to higher command, the service said.

The soldiers who died last week during a mission in Lithuania were remembered as a mix of dedicated young fathers, talented Army mechanics and key members of a close-knit unit. Three of them were promoted posthumously.

Rep. Morgan Luttrell is reintroducing the Service Dogs Assisting Veterans Act, also known as SAVES Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation would establish a five-year, $50 million VA-administered grant program for eligible nonprofit organizations dedicated to providing service dogs to veterans.

Three U.S. soldiers missing in Lithuania were found dead after their submerged armored vehicle was pulled from a muddy bog, U.S. Army Europe and Africa said Monday.

World War II veterans returned to Okinawa to commemorate the “devastating” battle that lasted from April 1 to June 22, 1945.

The Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Fort Benning, Ga., will drop its long-held Day 1 Ranger Physical Fitness Assessment of pushups, situps, chinups and a five-mile run for a new, nine-event test meant to better mimic the demands of combat.