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Pentagon Budgets $57 Billion to Overhaul Substandard Military Barracks

The Pentagon's record-breaking $1.5 trillion fiscal year 2027 budget request, unveiled this week, includes billions for infrastructure upgrades and repairs. In...

U.S. Navy Blockades Strait of Hormuz: What Happens Now and the Stakes

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. Navy would begin blockading the Strait of Hormuz after weekend peace talks in Islamabad collapsed. The...

The Army's New XM8: The Long Road to Replacing the M4

The M4 carbine has been the standard-issue weapon for American infantry for more than three decades, a reliable workhorse that saw action from the mountains of...

Trump Issues Iran Ceasefire: What Happens Now?

A two-week ceasefire halted U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran Tuesday night, but the conflicting messages from Tehran, Jerusalem, and Washington on terms of the...

On The Radar: Latest in Iran, Airshows Cancelled Across the U.S., Draft Goes Automatic this December

Weekly military news roundup covering the fragile ceasefire between U.S., Iran, and Israel affecting deployments, U.S. airshow cancellations due to operational...

Lost Behind Enemy Lines: How SERE School Prepares Pilots for the Worst

When U.S. aircraft were shot down over Iran, controlled airspace was gone in an instant. No reset button. No comms. During the span of time that the unknown...

Will the USS Gerald R. Ford Break the Navy’s Longest Deployment Record Amid the Iran Conflict?

As the most advanced aircraft carrier in the world, the USS Gerald R. Ford is often a centerpiece of America’s military operations overseas. After all, in the...

On The Radar: Iran Latest, USS Ford, Military Astronauts

Weekly military news roundup covering Operation Epic Fury developments, President Trump's Iran address projecting 2-3 more weeks of fighting, USS Gerald R....

The Pentagon Just Quadrupled THAAD Production

The U.S. Department of Defense isn’t just ordering a new supply of munitions, they’re ordering four times the supply. The Pentagon has secured a deal to...

Artillery Shell Explodes Over I-5 During Marines’ Celebration in California

The sight of artillery projectiles exploding midair is such an awe-inspiring, unforgettable sight is it any wonder it’s a component of some of America’s most...

Navy Opens First Expeditionary Micro Market for Troops in Iceland

For service members deployed to remote locations, everyday conveniences can be hard to find. To solve this problem for rotational troops, the Navy recently...

The Army Just Activated a New Brigade in Washington. Here’s What the 260th Special Purpose Brigade Does.

The Army has activated a new National Guard unit built specifically for Washington. The 260th Special Purpose Brigade, activated March 7 at the D.C. Armory, is...

Fire Aboard USS Gerald R. Ford: What Happened and How to Help

On March 12, 2026, a fire broke out in the main laundry spaces aboard USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) while the carrier was operating in the Red Sea in support of...

The Sacred Journey Home: Dignified Transfers and the Dover Port Mortuary

There is a scene in the 2009 HBO film Taking Chance that tells the story of how the military takes care of its own - in a few short minutes, with almost no...

Nimitz Gets a Final Mission: Navy Delays Retirement to Keep 11 Aircraft Carriers

The USS Nimitz was supposed to sail toward retirement later this year. Instead, the aircraft carrier will keep logging time at sea because, by law, the Navy...

The U.S. Coast Guard in War: History, Authority, and the Question of Transfer

One question that surfaces in every era of American war, and one circulating again in the tight-knit community of Coast Guard families today, concerns the...