Marine Corps veteran acquitted in NYC subway chokehold death
NEW YORK — A Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider was acquitted on Monday in a death that became a prism for differing views about public safety, valor and vigilantism. A Manhattan jury cleared Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide...
Marines hindered by Navy’s amphibious warfare ship maintenance delays
Nearly half of the amphibious warfare ships Marines need to deploy often are unavailable due to maintenance, according to a government watchdog. How the Navy currently manages those repairs means jarheads will continue to deploy late to the fight. The Dec. 3 Government Accountability Office...
Hundreds of airmen moving from Ellsworth to Grand Forks Air Force base
Hundreds of airmen and more than a dozen bombers are temporarily relocating Air Force bases beginning this month, the service announced Dec. 2. Eight hundred service members and 17 B-1B Lancers will move from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, to Grand Forks Air Force...
Air Force would study allowing beards under proposed defense bill
Congress is set to order the Air Force to study whether it can establish a pilot program that would allow airmen and guardians to grow beards. The proposed compromise National Defense Authorization Act, which was released on Saturday, would require the Air Force secretary to...
Air Force graduates first warrant officers in 66 years, eyes expansion
After a 10-month sprint to resurrect a program that ended more than half a century ago, the Air Force graduated its first class of 30 new warrant officers Dec. 6 in a ceremony attended by service Secretary Frank Kendall. With a second class already filled...
Top Dem says Congress should ‘abandon’ $895B defense bill over transgender treatment ban for kids
The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee suggested Congress should scrap the latest version of its annual defense policy bill over a provision that bans most transgender medical care for minors. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., leads Democrats on the committee that’s intimately involved...
Will senior enlisted troops see a targeted pay boost in 2026?
Junior enlisted troops are poised to see a massive increase in base pay next year. Senior enlisted service members could be next in line. Even as they were putting the finishing touches on service member quality of life reforms in this year’s defense authorization bill,...
‘Warrior whose vote cannot be bought’: Hundreds of vets pour out in support of Tulsi Gabbard for DNI
First on Fox: Hundreds of veterans across the nation are offering their unequivocal support to former Democrat Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence under President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration, Fox News Digital has learned. “President Donald Trump’s selection of Tulsi Gabbard reflects...
US strikes 75 ISIS targets in Syria after Assad regime collapses
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — American forces in the Middle East pounded central Syria Sunday in a massive round of strikes just a day after the country’s government crumbled. U.S. Central Command said that its warplanes conducted “dozens” of airstrikes on more than 75 sites, including...
