President Donald Trump announced his much-awaited policy on the 16-year war in Afghanistan — the longest war in U.S. history — in a speech to his favorite audience, American troops at Fort Myer, Virginia.
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The U.S. Navy ordered a broad investigation Monday into the performance and readiness of the Pacific-based 7th Fleet after the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker in Southeast Asian waters, leaving 10 U.S. sailors missing and others injured.
Avoiding a repeat confrontation with the media, President Donald Trump signed a bill to improve education benefits for veterans in a closed event Wednesday at his Bedminster golf course in New Jersey.
U.S. Coast Guard and military crews are searching the ocean off Hawaii for five crewmembers of an Army helicopter that reportedly went down during a training exercise, authorities said Wednesday.
House lawmakers finalized a bill Friday to streamline the appeals process for veterans seeking benefits and sent the legislation to the president.
Al Grandis, then a 19-year-old lovesick Marine, earned one of his Purple Heart medals when he stepped on a mine on a mountaintop in east-central Korea known as “Heartbreak Ridge.”
In one of its last acts before the August recess, the Senate passed a sweeping reform of the GI bill with bipartisan support — part of a legislative package for veterans that Republicans and Democrats were able to agree on.
A luxury tower on the Las Vegas Strip will turn into posh military barracks starting Saturday.
Under the deadline of a funding shortfall, the Senate passed a bill that provides a spending fix for veterans seeking medical care outside the Veterans Affairs system.
A dawn cannon salute in western Belgium has marked the start of one of World War I’s bloodiest battles 100 years ago.
Two veterans, who lost their legs during an explosion in Iraq, made a stop in Las Vegas during their journey in the third annual Veterans Charity Ride from Los Angeles to the 77th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.
In a statement responding to Trump tweets saying transgender individuals will no longer be allowed to serve in the U.S. military, governor directs Guard officials to make no change “unless instructed by the secretary of Defense.”
Some lauded President Donald Trump’s Wednesday announcement of a new ban of transgender personnel in the military; others labeled the move discrimination.
Despite thunderstorms that forced cancellation of Red Flag missions Tuesday and Wednesday, pilots of F-35 joint strike fighter jets and F-22 Raptors have made significant strides in the ongoing air combat exercise that ends Friday at Nellis Air Force Base.
President Donald Trump is barring transgender people from serving in the military “in any capacity,” citing “tremendous medical costs and disruption.”