A former U.S. Marine whose family said just days ago that he was near death in a Russian hospital has been freed after more than four years in custody and is on his way to a military hospital in Texas. Robert Gilman, 32, was released after Russian President Vladimir Putin…

Expect to see the solicitation for the next iteration of the Pentagon’s main cloud-computing contract on Aug. 24.The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract is the Defense Department’s vehicle for buying cloud services from the main hyperscalers: Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft Azure and Oracle. The Defense Information Systems Agency announced the date as part of its…

The military knows the dangers that boredom can bring to the workplace. Structured routines, maintenance schedules and organized recreation keep service members’ minds and bodies active. Deployments, training, testing, evaluations, PCSing, combat readiness prep and countless other activities keep time moving fast. Even downtime feels structured. Boredom can drive creativity…

Shuttle run-type fitness tests are becoming more popular in military fitness testing. Multiple types of them test different components of fitness, such as the Army’s sprint-drag-carry, the Air Force’s and Space Force’s 20-meter high aerobic multi-shuttle run (HAMR), a.k.a. the “beep test,” and the service academies’ 4×10-yard shuttle run. Depending…

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Coast Guard forces have suspended a search some ten days after a vessel with nine people on board went missing in the Hall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). USCG and Sector Guam had received news of the 20-foot skiff on July 31 as it was scheduled to return to…

A Chinese national is facing up to 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty to attempting to obtain U.S. military technology. Dingwei Chen, 29, a citizen of the People’s Republic of China, pleaded guilty Aug. 10 in federal court in Salt Lake City to violating the Arms Export Control Act,…

Sailors and Marines can no longer use anonymous reports of prohibited discrimination or discriminatory harassment to open a Military Equal Opportunity complaint, making the Department of the Navy the latest military department to implement Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s order to replace anonymous complaints with confidential reporting. The change took effect…

A U.S. Army veteran has been convicted of defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of over $170,000 in caregiver benefit payments. A federal jury found James Bradford, 49, of Kansas, guilty of one count of conspiracy to defraud the government and one count of theft of public money, property…

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall plans to sue the Trump administration. Kendall, who served as the head of the Air Force under former President Joe Biden, said Monday on CNN that he intends to file suit to restore his security clearance after it was revoked on Friday. Accused of…

A new military patch has been approved for U.S. Army soldiers with elite jungle warfare expertise. It’s named the Jungle Tab, an official skill tab of the Army that represents a formal recognition of jungle warfare as a definitive skill across the entire military division. “Tactics and training techniques required…

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