Air Force drops quarterly standards reviews, moves to annual checks
Top Air Force leaders announced this week that airmen will only be required to undergo a standards and readiness review once a year, backtracking on a move earlier this year to hold those reviews quarterly. Acting Vice Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Scott Pleus said...
Bestech Closes Out 2025 with One More Kombou Folder
Heads up, there’s a new Grzegorz Grabarski design on the way from Bestech Knives. The Noctar layers a stylish exterior on top of no-nonsense working knife bones, and is an entry in the sub-$100 section of Bestech’s catalog. Hard to believe it, but we have...
Corps updates physical fitness test standards for combat MOS Marines
The U.S. Marine Corps is slated to implement a sex-neutral physical fitness test scoring system for Marines with combat military occupational specialities beginning Jan. 1, 2026, according to a recent service memo. The physical fitness updates, which also include changes to the service’s body composition...
How Trump will fund ‘warrior dividend’ checks for service members
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump told Americans this week that 1.45 million U.S. service members would receive a one-time $1,776 “warrior dividend,” a $2.6 billion initiative he said would hit service members’ bank accounts before Christmas. The president credited...
America’s Dunkirk: The battle of Long Island
It was a miracle of deliverance. Orders had gone out to military officers to collect “every kind of watercraft … that could be kept afloat and had either oars or sails,” to slip roughly 9,000 men across the water to safe harbors and away from...
Sailors to see $375 million in barracks improvements
Sailors at 56 U.S. Navy installations will be the beneficiaries of about $375 million in barracks improvements projects to address “critical living conditions,” Navy officials announced Thursday. About $300 million will go into major projects to benefit around 2,000 sailors and Marines at six bases...
Civilian interpreter killed in Syria identified as Ayad Mansoor Sakat
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The civilian interpreter who was killed in Palmyra, Syria, over the weekend has been identified as Ayad Mansoor Sakat. Sakat, 54, was born in Bakhdida, Iraq, and worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army during the...
‘Warrior dividend’ is on the way to troops, Trump says
A “warrior dividend” of $1,776 is on its way to service members, President Donald Trump announced in a speech Wednesday evening. Because of money received from tariffs this year, along with the One Big Beautiful Bill, he said, “more than 1,450,000 service members will receive...
How a US-led peace plan in Ukraine is reshaping global alliances
KYIV, Ukraine — “The problem with this round of negotiations is that they lack all credibility,” one senior European diplomat with knowledge of the peace process told Military Times this week. “It’s just stupid.” The exasperation of the official, who was granted anonymity to discuss...
US preps massive weapons package for Taiwan valued at over $10 billion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an angry response from China. The State Department announced the sales late Wednesday during a...
