Navy crew helped rescue F-16 pilot after ejection over California
A U.S. Navy search-and-rescue team known as the “Dust Devils” played a pivotal role in the rescue of an Air Force pilot who safely ejected from an F-16 fighter jet that crashed in Southern California last month, Navy officials said Wednesday. The team assigned to...
US Air Force eyes improved comms with bombers after Midnight Hammer
To ensure future missions such as last summer’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities can succeed, the U.S. Air Force must improve the way it securely transmits critical information with bombers and other aircraft securely transmit critical information, a top general said Thursday. The June 22...
Marine Corps halts sale, use of all-weather coat that ‘bleeds’ orange
A manufacturing defect in the U.S. Marine Corps’ all-weather coat is causing the service to restrict its sale and wear among personnel. The defect, which causes the clothing item to shed an orange substance, was identified by Marine Corps officials in a specific production lot...
Brief scandal: Soldier without pants found in German nursing home
Sunday morning breakfast at a German nursing home was interrupted by a surprise none of the residents had ordered: an American soldier, hold the trousers. An employee making morning meal rounds at the Grafenwoehr facility found the heavily intoxicated soldier in an unoccupied room Jan....
DOD ordered to study mental health impacts among military drone pilots
Tucked inside the more than 3,000 pages of the recently passed defense budget for Fiscal Year 2026 is a mandate that the secretary of defense carry out a study focused on the mental health impacts of piloting unmanned aircraft systems in combat. The rise of...
Utilities billing resumes for some military housing residents
Some landlords of privatized military housing are resuming the utilities billing process for military families. The resumption varies across the service branches, and by installation, and starts with mock billing before actual billing begins. The Air Force appears to be further along in restarting its...
101st Airborne soldiers hitch rides aboard Marine Ospreys in exercise
Ahead of the 101st Airborne Division’s receipt of the Bell MV-75, its personnel tested the tiltrotor waters in a training exercise with the Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey. On Jan. 23, the Army’s 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, used aircraft from the North Carolina-based...
