Marine sergeant’s romantic evening goes up in flames, Okinawa police say
Police on Okinawa arrested a Marine last week on suspicion of setting a hotel room on fire in an attempt gone wrong to create a romantic evening.
Police on Okinawa arrested a Marine last week on suspicion of setting a hotel room on fire in an attempt gone wrong to create a romantic evening.
After being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight service members in Japan, the V-22 Osprey — a complicated aircraft that flies fast like a plane but converts to land like a helicopter — is back in the air. But there are still questions as to whether it should be.
A Honolulu jury on Friday found Dixie Denise Villa, 46, guilty of manslaughter in the 2019 death of an infant at the unlicensed day care she operated out of her home in military housing, according to court records.
A “Monkey Warning” was posted Monday by Naval Air Facility Atsugi near Tokyo, advising sailors and civilians to keep their distance from a wild monkey spotted prowling nearby.
Numerous children were injured by a vehicle at the gate of an elementary school in central China’s Hunan province on Tuesday morning, reports said.
The United States and the Philippines signed an agreement on Monday to secure the exchange of highly confidential military intelligence and technology in key weapons the U.S. would provide to Manila.
Pete Hegseth, the nominee for defense secretary, has made it clear that he believes men and women should not serve together in combat units. If confirmed by the Senate, he could try to end the Pentagon’s nearly decade-old practice of making all combat jobs open to women.
It was not clear if there would be limits on Ukraine’s use of the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, as there have been on other U.S. missile systems. Their deployment could — at least initially — be limited to Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops seized territory this year.
The U.S. military has destroyed its last supplies of toxic firefighting foam at installations in Japan, according to the Tokyo-based command.