The grenade bounced off John Allen’s shoulder and exploded nearby during a firefight in Afghanistan. Allen, a Navy SEAL, was badly wounded. He survived the 2014 blast and was medically retired from the SEAL teams in 2017. Now, his audience knows him as MrBallen. He entertains millions with stories that…

At first glance, the Avrocar looked like a prop from a 1950s science fiction movie. It was round, low to the ground and built for two people sitting on opposite sides of its center. But the VZ-9AV was a real aircraft project, backed by the U.S. Army and Air Force…

Operation Enduring Freedom began Oct. 7, 2001, when U.S. and British forces launched airstrikes against al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in Afghanistan, less than a month after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command’s official account of the operation. This month marks 25 years since that…

The Space Force has spent the past two years pushing artificial intelligence past pilot programs and into daily use, from launch control rooms to satellite operations centers. Some of it comes down from the Pentagon as enterprise-wide software; some of it is built by individual units solving staffing problems they’re…

The Pentagon’s new testosterone screening policy requires medical providers to ask a service member who is undergoing screening about plans for children before writing a single treatment prescription. If the answer is yes to children, or hasn’t decided, the policy bars starting standard testosterone therapy and requires an alternative drug…

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The Pentagon will create a combatant command to lead its efforts to develop and deploy robotic weapons, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday in a speech peppered with Bible verses and insults to the press. The new Autonomous Warfare Command, or AUTOWARCOM, will be “a new four-star combatant command with service-like…

More than 21 million veterans and service members live in the U.S., but only about 6% of them bought a home using a VA home loan in the past five years. That percentage could be much higher. Eligible veterans often bypass the program for a number of reasons. First, they…

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon’s comptroller has a bit of advice for tech makers and founders who want to do business with the military: Make tech that troops like, find out who can buy it for them, and hire someone who knows how things work. . “Having the users like your products is incredibly…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to announce Wednesday that he will cut general and admiral positions across the military by 20%, effectively doubling the reduction he ordered last year as part of a broader plan to reshape the senior ranks by Jan. 1, 2027. Hegseth is scheduled to lay…