Military

Authorities have identified the two service members who were killed when their plane crashed in a residential Alabama neighborhood.

The specter of election chaos in the United States is raising questions about whether voting, vote-counting or the post-vote reaction could become so chaotic that the military would intervene

Current and former soldiers at Fort Hood, a U.S. Army base in Texas, have taken to social media to report accounts of sexual assault and harassment following the disappearance and slaying this year of Spc. Vanessa Guillen. Five women spoke with The Associated Press.

Recycle For Veterans, a non-profit organization, held a beach cleanup where dozens of volunteers spent their Saturday morning cleaning up trash along the beach in Oceanside.

A fighter jet pilot was forced to eject from his cockpit during a midair fueling operation Tuesday in the sky over Thermal, near the Salton Sea, the United States Marine Corps confirmed. A Marine Corps Air Station Yuma spokesperson said a F-35B fighter jet made contact with a KC-130J during an air-to-air refueling operation at around 4 p.m., resulting...

More than 200 retired generals and admirals endorsed Joe Biden for president in a letter published Thursday, saying he had the character and judgment to serve as commander-in-chief instead of President Donald Trump, who has failed “to meet challenges large or small,” NBC News reports.

Monday marks a big day for a local non-profit organization that helps veterans transition into civilian life as the Wounded Warrior Homes celebrates its eighth anniversary.

China’s Defense Ministry has blasted a critical U.S. report on the country’s military ambitions, saying it is the U.S. instead that poses the biggest threat to the international order and world peace

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will retire in February 2019. Mattis submitted a letter to Trump saying the president deserves a secretary of defense with views more close to his on things like alliances and building an international order. The move comes after Trump abruptly announced that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Syria,…

The top U.S. general for the Middle East says the Trump administration will pull thousands of troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan by November

An article in Atlantic describes President Donald Trump calling Americans who died in war “losers” and “suckers” The article points out several instances of Trump making disparaging comments about members of the military who have been captured or killed. Trump has denied the comments. Among the allegations, a senior defense official told the Atlantic that Trump called U.S. service...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden responds to a report that President Donald Trump called members of the U.S. Armed Forces “losers” and “suckers.” Trump has denied the report.

Two special operations soldiers were killed Thursday during an “aircraft mishap” while conducting an aviation training exercise on San Clemente Island, according to the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC).

A men’s rights group says it will push ahead with its court efforts to have the nation’s male-only military draft system declared unconstitutional

A new $1 trillion COVID-19 response package by Senate Republicans is supposed to give the government more weapons to battle the surging coronavirus pandemic. But GOP lawmakers have more than just the “invisible enemy” in mind.

National Guard Spc. Conner Smith returned home on Friday and met his six-month-old daughter for the first time.

July 25 is National Hire a Veteran Day, a day that hopes to recognize veterans and the value that they can bring to a workplace. One nonprofit, Foundation for Women Warriors, is focusing efforts on helping women transition to civilian life, and they need your help.

A new documentary from Netflix and The New York Times, “Father Soldier Son,” follows a U.S. Army Ranger platoon sergeant and the impact of his deployment to Afghanistan on his family. Directors and Times journalists Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis joined LX News to discuss what they learned about how military service affects families.

The president of a Latino civil rights group is calling for young Latina women to refuse to join the military until the armed forces guarantee their safety from rape and sexual assault.