Cargo ship hits tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military
A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England on Monday, setting both vessels ablaze and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea. All 37 crew members aboard the vessels were safe and accounted for, with one hospitalized,...
DOD civilian employees given $1 spending limit for travel cards
The Defense Department effectively barred its civilian employees from using their government-issued travel charge cards, according to a DOD memo. The new spending rules, spelled out in a March 5 memorandum signed by Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Darin Selnick, came a...
US Coast Guard Academy censors ‘climate change’ from its curriculum
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The missions of the U.S. Coast Guard propel its members across changing and sometimes perilous waters, into neighborhoods damaged by ever-more-intense...
Marine retiree shares a warning about this Tricare payment problem
A retired Marine staff sergeant recently took steps to ensure he and his wife don’t lose their health care coverage after his allotment for Tricare payments was mistakenly stopped during the military’s transition to the new contracts in January. Russ Clark is worried that other...
North Korea fires missiles as US, South Korea begin major joint military exercise
North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday, just hours after South Korea and the United States kicked off their first major joint military exercise of President Donald Trump’s second term. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile firings were...
Court-martial convenes for Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira
A court-martial convened on Monday for Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who was sentenced in federal court last year to 15 years in prison for leaking highly classified military documents after the most consequential national security breach in years. Teixeira pleaded guilty last year to six...
Marine gets highest noncombat award for acts in fatal Osprey crash
The air crew told their Marines that the Osprey was going down. Capt. Joshua Watson, nearly two dozen other Marines and a sailor braced for impact. Watson shoved his radio operator into the brace position before protecting himself. Everything not strapped down became a projectile,...
Stopgap budget bill includes extra funds for military, VA programs
A stopgap federal spending bill unveiled by House Republicans this weekend would add $6 billion in new spending for the Defense Department and another $6 billion for Veterans Affairs operations this fiscal year, but it still could cause financial headaches for both agencies in the...
Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira who shared docs on Ukraine war faces court martial
Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty last year to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine online, is scheduled to begin his court-martial on additional charges Monday. Teixeira pleaded guilty last March to six counts of willful...
US arms exports to Europe triple, boosted by Ukraine aid: SIPRI
PARIS — United States arms exports to Europe have more than tripled on aid for Ukraine and as European countries boosted weapons buying in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to an analysis by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Shipments of U.S. weapons...
