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Jacksonville National Cemetery is hosting a Memorial Day observance on Saturday, May 24 at 9:30 a.m.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plans to slash the number of senior military leaders across the services would cut more than 120 high-ranking officer jobs in the active duty and National Guard, including as many as nine top general slots.
Courts across the country have been grappling with how to deal with the increasing presence of artificial intelligence in the courtroom.
The White House is unveiling President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget, a sweeping framework proposing steep reductions in non-defense domestic spending while increasing expenditures on national security.
Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and potentially a couple thousand civilians.
A new Pentagon report says that the number of sexual assaults reported across the military fell by nearly 4% last year and there was a significant drop in the Army.
An Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems has been executed in Florida for the shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three young children.
A federal review of helicopter safety around some of the busiest U.S. airports has revealed dangerous flying conditions at the Las Vegas airport.
FBI Director Kash Patel was quietly removed weeks ago as the acting chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and has been replaced with the Army secretary.
The Army has made changes to how its helicopters use a safety system that broadcasts aircraft location and has reduced the number of flights over Washington following a collision with a passenger jet that killed 67 people.
The U.S. military says the final U.S. soldier who went missing in Lithuania has been found dead, ending a massive weeklong search for the four service members whose armored vehicle was pulled from a swampy training area.
A congressional hearing has reinforced the idea that the January collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft could have been prevented.
The head of the agency investigating the deadly midair collision that killed 67 said Wednesday that someone should have spotted the alarming number of near misses in the skies over the nation’s capital beforehand and reviewing the data now could prevent future crashes.
The Federal Aviation Administration says helicopters will be permanently banned from flying near Washington, D.
Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.
The Pentagon is sending about 3,000 more active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as President Donald Trump seeks to clamp down on illegal immigration and fulfill a central promise of his campaign.
Nathan Chen, Nancy Kerrigan and Peggy Fleming are among the figure skaters added to the cast of a benefit event this weekend in Washington, D.
Investigators say the crew of the Army helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not request more than $137,000 in repairs and upgrades to military housing at Fort McNair that will become his official residence.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg.
A line of Mexican National Guard and Army trucks are rumbling along the border separating Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, among the first of 10,000 troops Mexico has sent to its northern frontier following tariff threats by President Donald Trump.
Almost a week after a helicopter and airplane collision in Washington killed 67 people, investigators are still at work as salvage crews pull out chunks of aircraft.
The remains of all 67 victims of the midair collision near Reagan National Airport have been recovered.
Salvage crews have recovered an engine and large pieces of fuselage and are working to retrieve a wing from wreckage of last week’s midair collision near Washington’s Reagan National Airport.
Authorities say they have recovered the remains of 55 of the 67 people killed in the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001.
A deadly midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near the nation's capital is bringing renewed focus on the federal agency charged with investigating aviation disasters.
One of the 60 passengers on board the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter was the daughter of a Jacksonville lawyer.
The training of U.S. military helicopter pilots is getting heightened attention following the midair collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet.
In the wake of the deadly Wednesday night collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter, a Jacksonville man shared an unsettling experience during a flight last week from Charlotte to Reagan Washington National Airport.
Several federal agencies have begun removing resources for underrepresented Americans from their webpages following President Donald Trump’s executive order cracking down on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Authorities say the highly decorated soldier inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas shot himself in the head just before detonation.
Donald Trump huddled with allies and a Republican cause célèbre at the Army-Navy football game.
Robert Watkins and Gisela Bell thought they would be the only ones at their family member's funeral. Then, the dozens showed up to honor Richard Watkins.
Alabama and Mississippi tumbled out of the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll and Miami and SMU moved in following a chaotic weekend in the SEC.
According to a Defense Department report released on Thursday, there were 523 reported U.S. military suicides in 2023 with 363 of those being active-duty troops.
The Future Soldier Prep Course was started as a trial program two years ago to provide additional instruction for recruits who couldn’t meet the Army’s physical and academic test standards.
The Armed Forces Veterans Run Foundation was established this year to protect and provide support for the Armed Forces Tribridge 10K challenge and Veterans 5K road race.
Oregon and Penn State each moved up a spot in The Associated Press college football poll following thrilling wins in high-profile games.
The Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force say they will all meet their recruiting goals by the end of this month and the Navy will come very close.
A Pennsylvania ammunition plant that makes a key artillery shell in Ukraine’s fight against Russia has managed to boost production by 50% to meet surging demand, with more capacity set to come on line.
A special commission says the Army Reserve and local police missed opportunities to intervene and seize weapons from a spiraling reservist responsible for the deadliest shootings in Maine history.
An Army report says three reserve officers have been disciplined for dereliction of duty in the aftermath of a reservist’s rampage in which 18 people were killed in Maine.
An Army nurse practitioner who evaluated a reservist who later killed 18 people says he couldn’t use New York’s red flag law to disarm the man because he was not a New York resident.
A lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserves says a reservist who committed the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history had a low threat profile when he left a psychiatric hospital prior to the killings.
An Army health official told a panel investigating a mass shooting by a reservist experiencing a psychiatric crisis that there are health care differences for Army reservists that could limit the flow of information to commanders.
Pentagon officials are cautiously optimistic that an overall decline in reported sexual assaults among active-duty service members and the military academies suggests that leaders are finally getting a handle on what has been a persistent problem.
Police have said repeatedly since Maine’s deadliest shooting that officers thought the gunman’s family had been taking his weapons away.
U.S. special operations commanders are having to do more with less and they're learning from the war in Ukraine, That means juggling how to add more high-tech experts to their teams while still cutting their overall forces by about 5,000 troops over the next five years.
A lawyer for a military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq says the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people.
A civilian interrogator who worked 20 years ago at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors in Virginia that he never abused detainees and was actually promoted for doing a good job.
A civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison resigned within two weeks of his arrival and told his corporate bosses that mistreatment of detainees was likely to continue.
The Army and Air Force say they are on track to meet their recruiting goals this year, reversing previous shortfalls using a swath of new programs and policy changes.
The interim report from the commission investigating Maine's deadliest mass shooting focused mostly on whether authorities should have taken shooter Robert Card into custody and seized his guns under the state's so-called yellow flag law.
A massive floating pier that will allow ships to sail up to Gaza and offload aid will soon sail from the U.S. to the Mediterranean Sea as the U.S. looks at ways to address Gaza's dire food needs.
Brain injury experts are cautioning against drawing conclusions from newly released and limited information about the Army reservist who killed 18 people last year in Maine’s deadliest mass shooting.
An Army reservist who shot and killed 18 people in Maine last year had evidence of traumatic brain injuries, according to a brain tissue analysis by researchers from Boston University.
Emotional survivors of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, called on politicians to protect the community from future tragedies.
An Army reservist responsible for Maine’s deadliest mass shooting told state police in New York before his hospitalization last summer that fellow soldiers were worried about him because he was “gonna friggin’ do something.”.
A Louisiana State University freshman football player has been arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder after a shooting last week that injured two people.
Army Sergeant Kennedy Sanders, 24, will be laid to rest Saturday after a public viewing Friday in her hometown of Waycross. Sanders was one of three soldiers killed during a drone strike in Jordan two weeks ago.
Three US Army soldiers were killed and more than 30 service members were injured in a drone attack in Jordan. The attack happened at Tower 22 in Jordan near the border with Syria. Specialist Kennedy Sanders of Waycross was one of the three killed.
The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.
Videos show police in Maine feared that confronting an Army reservist in the weeks before he killed 18 people in the state’s deadliest mass shooting would “throw a stick of dynamite on a pool of gas."
An independent report conducted for a police agency clears the agency’s response to growing concerns about the mental health of a man who later went on to commit the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history.
A member of a rescue team has raised hope that there may be survivors at a Zambian mine where more than 30 informal miners have been trapped under debris for days after heavy rain caused landslides.
The U.S. Army Special Operations Command says the five soldiers killed when their helicopter crashed in the Eastern Mediterranean over the weekend were national treasures whose loss cut deeply.
U.S. officials say the number of suicides among military members and their families dipped slightly in 2022, compared with the previous year.
An Army private who fled to North Korea before being returned home to the United States last month has been detained by the U.S. military.
As Congress considers payments to victims of Cold War-era nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region, people who were targeted for secret government testing from that same time period believe they’re due compensation, too.
The Senate has confirmed three top military leaders, filling the posts after monthslong delays and as a Republican senator is still holding up hundreds of other nominations and promotions for senior officers.
Lebanese authorities are investigating a late-night shooting outside the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy just outside Beirut.
President Joe Biden has awarded the Medal of Honor to an Army pilot from the Vietnam War who risked his life to rescue a reconnaissance team that was about to be overrun by the enemy — facing almost certain death.
The White House says President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor to a Vietnam War-era Army pilot who risked his life to rescue a reconnaissance team that was about to be overrun by the enemy.
The head of Sudan’s army warned that the northeast African country will be divided if its deadly conflict between the military and rival paramilitary force is not resolved.
A new report says female soldiers face rampant sexism, sexual harassment and other gender-related challenges in male dominated Army special operations units.
The head of Sudan’s military has accused the rival paramilitary force of committing war crimes as all-out civil war threatens to engulf the northeast African country.
Marine Corps leaders say they'll make their recruiting goal this year, at a time when the active-duty Army, Navy and Air Force expect to fall short.
A 31-year-old former Army staff sergeant has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to attempted enticement and coercion of a minor to engage in sexual activity.
The U.S. military has struggled to overcome recruiting shortfalls and as a way to try to address that problem, it's stepping up efforts to sign up immigrants.
This week marked one year since Northeast Florida native U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Seth Plant was killed in a bear attack on a base in Alaska. He was 30 years old.
The Navy has commissioned the USS Cooperstown, named for the New York state village where the Baseball Hall of Fame is located and honoring the 70 members who served in the military during wartime.
The Pentagon says the number of reported sexual assaults across the military inched up about 1% last year, as a sharp decline in Army numbers offset increases in the other three services.
