Wednesday, August 12

After several years of the Army and Navy publicly missing their recruiting targets by thousands of people, the Defense Department’s five military branches had hit or exceeded their fiscal year 2026 recruiting goal as of July, months ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline. It’s a genuine turnaround — one the…

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…

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…

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…

According to a recent study, most American veterans over the past decade have been drinking less. A small and welcome piece of good news buried in the sometimes anxiety-inducing health data. Binge-drinking is down, with younger veterans in particular pulling away from the bottle. Even the gap between how much…

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Sailors and military families at dozens of Navy installations will get free concerts from Teddy Swims, Miranda Lambert, Fitz and The Tantrums and Shaquille O’Neal over the coming months as the service expands its Operation MWR entertainment series through spring 2027. Navy Morale, Welfare and Recreation announced Friday that Operation…

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