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The bill that avoided a second government shutdown finally provided the $655 million for a badly needed new icebreaker for the Coast Guard and $20 million more for start of construction on a second one.'This is big, this is real, ...

The U.S. Army just awarded BAE Systems contract modifications worth up to $575 million for its Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle effort to replace the Vietnam War-era M113 armored personnel carrier.The two contract modifications mark the beginning of low-rate production for the highly mobile, ...

Inactive frigates, destroyers and other mothballed vessels won't be making their way back to the fleet, Navy leaders have decided, as they look to add dozens of ships to the service's arsenal in the coming decades.Navy leaders have wrapped up a review of the service's entire list of inactive ships, ...

Most joint military exercises have seemingly arbitrary names with little to do with the actual training: think Foal Eagle or Juniper Falcon. Not so with the annual joint Thai-Marine Corps exercise Cobra Gold, ...

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin sternly warned the United States against deploying new missiles in Europe, saying Wednesday that Russia will retaliate by fielding new weapons that will take just as little time to reach their targets. ...

VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- The staff at Vance Air Force Base Bradley Fitness and Sports Center have a challenge for all members of Team Vance: 'Thing you're fit? Try being an Iron Airman. ...

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is well known as the go-to place to buy surplus military firearms, so the Government Accountability Office recently tallied up how much money the nonprofit has generated from selling tens of thousands of M1 Garand rifles over the past decade. ...

The U.S. Air Force has issued new guidelines for active-duty, reserve and National Guard airmen who are considered non-deployable, and officials will immediately begin flagging those who have been unable to deploy for 12 consecutive months for separation consideration.In a memorandum signed Tuesday, ...

BAGHOUZ, Syria — The collection of tents was largely silent on a sunny winter Monday afternoon. Few people were visible, but the few out and about were calm: Two men in long robes and pants walked slowly together through the grass, a woman leisurely came out of her tent to look around, ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's proposed sixth military service, the Space Force, will fall within the Department of the Air Force if approved by Congress, according to a directive he signed Tuesday.The Pentagon will include funding for the Space Force in its fiscal 2020 budget proposal, ...

A former 1st Cavalry Division soldier will receive the nation's second-highest award for valor for saving three fellow service members from a suicide bomber attack during a 2007 patrol in Iraq.Former Sgt. Daniel E. Cowart, who was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, ...

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Donald Cook transited the Dardanelles Strait on Tuesday en route to its second Black Sea operation in a month, as Russia again shadows the ship amid growing tensions between Moscow and the West.The ship made a port stop last month in Batumi, Georgia, ...

Much of the money that President Donald Trump is seeking to take from existing Pentagon counterdrug operations to fund his planned wall at the southern border isn't being used effectively in support of state authorities, according to a recent government watchdog report. ...

The United States was newly at war in 1942 when the Marines moved into their new base on Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores, a cattle ranch nestled between the Southern California cities of Oceanside and San Clemente.The coastal location was ideal for a force in need of an amphibious training base. ...

SOUTH WELLFLEET -- An investigation into potential contaminants in the ground at the former Camp Wellfleet, from munitions used at the former military base from 1942 to 1961, is nearly complete, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. ...

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. -- People looking to celebrate Presidents Day won't find much in the way of related events, aside from store sales.The holiday began to celebrate George Washington's birthday, but now it is commonly viewed to remember the service of all U.S. presidents. ...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A vessel that bears the name of Oklahoma's second-largest city has been commissioned as the newest warship in the U.S. Navy's fleet.The USS Tulsa was commissioned on Saturday at a pier in San Francisco. ...

MUNICH -- President Donald Trump threatened Sunday to release hundreds of Islamic State fighters being held in Syria if allies in Europe don't agree to take custody of the militants.'The United States is asking Britain, France, ...

President Donald Trump will pay for his much coveted wall at the southern border in part by taking $3.6 billion from military projects across the country and the world.The decision means Florida bases could lose up to $177 million for planned construction, more than all but eight other states, ...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth says her colleagues are prepared to block President Trump's declaration of a national emergency, which he celebrated at the golf course a day after the announcement.Duckworth (D-Ill. ...