Editor’s note: This report contains discussion of suicide. Troops, veterans and family members experiencing suicidal thoughts can call the 24-hour Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 and dial 1, text 838255 or visit VeteransCrisisLine.net.House lawmakers released key findings Tuesday from an investigation into the Navy’s response to aviators dealing with…

The Pentagon has codified sweeping changes to military fitness requirements, some of which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered last fall. The new regulations, published Aug. 31, spell out testing timelines, standards for troops in combat arms specialties, guidelines for pregnancy and postpartum fitness and establish tracking mechanisms for testing results…

The NESCO Snackmaster Pro FD-75A is still one of the more interesting food dehydrators for someone who wants to get started without buying a large, expensive machine. It has 600 watts of drying power, a top-mounted fan, adjustable temperature from 95°F to 160°F, and five stacking trays. You can expand…

Retired Army special operations master sergeant Pasha Palanker first met Marc Andersen during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the man who now manages Army finances was handing out diapers at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, as part of volunteer work to support military families. Palanker was impressed — both by Andersen’s tall…

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter.If not for what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, Valeria Casillas probably would not have joined the military. But in the surge of patriotism following deadly…

Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war.At least one seafarer aboard a tanker was reported…

The Pentagon has decided which company will make the U.S. Navy’s next-generation stealth fighter and could announce the winner in the coming weeks or sooner, two people briefed on the matter said.Boeing and Northrop Grumman are competing for the contract, which previous programs of similar scope suggest could be worth…

The U.S. Air Force is looking to turn its cargo planes into launch platforms for drone swarms.Or more specifically, the service would like transport aircraft and their retinue of drones to deploy to Air Force bases. Once there, this swarm of AI-controlled drones would autonomously defend the bases — and…

When Andy Markoff deployed to Mosul with the U.S. Marine Raiders in 2016, one of the challenges they faced as they pushed ISIS fighters back along a hundred-mile front was that they never had enough munitions, he said.Markoff explained that calling in air support was an effective way to clear…

Cardinal Burke sits down for a long talk on the Old Testament. If you have ever wondered how the oldest book on the shelf still shapes duty and right and wrong, start here.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday it had captured a U.S. uncrewed submarine at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, offering a rare glimpse into how underwater drones are being used in military operations.Iranian state media said the vessel was a Dive-LD, a large autonomous underwater vehicle built by…

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was nominating Hung Cao for the full-time position of secretary of the Navy. Cao has been in the acting role since former Navy Secretary John Phelan’s abrupt departure in April.Yet, Cao will need more than the Senate’s majority rule approval — his nomination…