Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Irving Cintron has been putting on Christmas light shows since late November for his neighbors at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo. It’s a tradition he began nearly 20 years ago during his enlisted days, but this year’s light shows are the final chapter for Cintron at Yokota, as he plans to retire in June.

North Korea demonstrated this year that it could produce ballistic missiles and supply them to Russia for use against Ukraine in a matter of months, the head of a research organization that traces weapons used in the war said Wednesday.

Since 2015, the Navy has spent about $3.7 billion modernizing seven Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruisers. But only three will be delivered back to fleet, and none will gain five service life years as intended, according to a federal watchdog.

In the second-half of 2023, 15 high-ranking Chinese military officials and defense industry executives were ousted, several of which oversaw equipment development projects. Still, a key takeaway from the Pentagon’s assessment is that China is continuing its rapid nuclear buildup.

The family of an Okinawan taxi driver assaulted by two Marines in 2008 has lost an appeal to the Supreme Court of Japan seeking additional compensation from the Japanese government.

The first contingent of Marines moving from Okinawa to Guam will bunk at Andersen Air Force Base, Naval Base Guam or off-base, not the Corps’ Camp Blaz, a 4,000-acre, multibillion construction project still in the works.

Ladeania Jackson, an Air National Guard master sergeant, and three others who completed a 14-day challenge in the Southern Alps of New Zealand shared a $1 million prize on the reality TV show “The Summit.”

A senior U.S. military official says a couple hundred North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces against Ukraine have been killed or wounded in battle in the Kursk border region.

A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck just off the coast of Vanuatu on Tuesday, causing widespread destruction in the South Pacific island nation as the injured began arriving at a hospital and unconfirmed reports of casualties emerged.