A generation that fought World War II is down to its last few thousand. With each passing year, the country loses another living connection to the men who crossed oceans to fight it. On Sunday, it lost the oldest of the Marines still among them. Roy Henry Drinkard died Aug.…

The Washington, D.C. area is not only home to the federal government and the hundreds of thousands of government workers it employs, there’s a strong military and business community that is in many ways interdependent. That’s exactly what three D.C.-area entrepreneurs found as they took their military experience into an…

Steve Doocy thought he had a pretty good idea of what life inside one of America’s military service academies looked like. Then he went to see it for himself. Doocy, the longtime co-host of Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” spent the week visiting the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Naval…

HONOLULU—A new encryption-based app, Kibu, available to U.S. military operators and foreign military partners, could change the way militaries and consumers communicate.Civilian and government officials are accustomed to using their own phones and tend to rely on commercial messaging apps, even when they shouldn’t. For example, U.S. operators in Poland…

​Troops calling for fire depend on it. So does the pilot navigating to a target, or a ship coordinating its movements with a carrier group. Each of them, in moments that matter most, relies on systems roughly 22,000 miles overhead. Complex systems they will likely never see and may never…

The Department of Defense created the Basic Needs Allowance in 2023 to address a problem that had been quietly acknowledged for years: Some active-duty families, particularly larger households at junior enlisted pay grades, were living below the federal poverty line despite a parent serving full-time in the military. The allowance…

If you’ve spent any time around preparedness-minded people, you’ve probably heard some version of this advice: buy it before you need it.It’s not bad advice.In fact, having supplies on hand when everyone else is scrambling can be one of the biggest advantages of being prepared. The problem is that preparedness…

Deployment and data breaches both raise the odds that a service member’s personal information ends up in the wrong hands. The good news is that military families have access to protections civilians don’t, starting with a free active duty credit alert that requires lenders to verify your identity before opening…

Marksmanship played a critical role in the American Revolutionary War, and Project Appleseed seeks to preserve that tradition which unites us as Americans. Share Project Appleseed™ is a non-partisan, apolitical nonprofit organization composed entirely of volunteers dedicated to liberty, marksmanship, and history. Since 2005, Project Appleseed has conducted rifle and…

CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced trip to Moscow on Aug. 25 for meetings with Russian officials, sparking questions about the visit’s intent and about national flags on the premises. The visit became public after observers spotted a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at a Moscow airport and…

What’s the Hype About 22 ARC?At face value, the .22 ARC doesn’t exactly sound revolutionary. It’s a .22-caliber centerfire rifle cartridge, and we’ve been making those for a while.So why is everyone suddenly getting so amped up about this one?Well, because the .22 ARC isn’t particularly interested in playing the…

Iran will not allow military vessels to travel through the Strait of Hormuz as part of a temporary agreement the Islamic Republic is negotiating with Oman. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told state TV late Tuesday night that the two countries have agreed to a new framework for managing…

As hijacked planes turned into weapons on Sept. 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York, a handful of young techs and officers suddenly found themselves scrambling fighter jets as they realized in real time that the United States was under attack. As the towers…

The USS Abraham Lincoln will stop in Thailand after spending months at sea in the Middle East, according to multiple reports. A Thai government official, speaking anonymously, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the vessel will make a brief stop in the Asian country to allow rest and recovery.…

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