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In what Department of Veterans Affairs officials are calling the biggest change to its appeals process in decades, the department will launch a new system next week for veterans challenging their disability claims decisions.The new process gives veterans three options for contesting their claims, ...

A year after the launch of the Defense Department's Close Combat Lethality Task Force (CCLTF), Army and Marine infantry may be moving closer to being transformed into an elite force, much like the 75th Ranger Regiment.Retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, a key adviser to the CCLTF, told Military. ...

This article by Jared KellerВ originally appeared onВ Task & Purpose, a digital news and culture publication dedicated to military and veterans issues.Bill Cosby is apparently having no trouble adjusting to his life in prison thanks to his brief service in the U.S. Navy. ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump will sign Congress' border security compromise, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday. ...

The Air National Guard may be looking to get rid of at least half its RC-26 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fleet in coming years, and one guardsman -- who also happens to be a U.S. congressman -- isn't happy about it. ...

SAN DIEGO --В  A jury on Wednesday found a Navy petty officer guilty of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in a 2016 crash off the San Diego-Coronado Bridge that killed four people and injured seven others in Chicano Park.The San Diego Superior Court jury did not find gross negligence, ...

BRUSSELS — NATO defense ministers on Thursday weighed the future of the alliance's operation in Afghanistan and debated how best to use its military presence to support political talks aimed at ending the conflict.Frustrated with America's longest war, U.S. ...

The U.S. Army will soon field more pocket-sized drones to its squads and platoons under a recent $39.6 million contract award to FLIR Systems Inc. to support small-unit reconnaissance efforts.The FLIR Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance System, or PRS, ...

TAMPA -- A Largo man used his SUV to ram a gate onto MacDill Air Force Base on Wednesday, police said, resulting in traffic being rerouted from the S Dale Mabry Highway entrance for several hours.The incident took place shortly before 9 a.m. Timothy Paul Yarbrough, 35, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, rolling across the rocky red soil, was pronounced dead Wednesday, 15 years after it landed on the planet. ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany -- The Air Force for the first time has approved an award for airmen serving with the heavy airlift wing at Papa Air Base in Hungary.The Heavy Airlift Wing Service Medal will be based on exceptional performance or service and is retroactive to the fall of 2008, ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, will hold a one-day stand-down to address alcohol use among cadets, part of an effort to curb problem drinking, sexual assault and harassment on the campus. ...

Jim Mattis is gone after coming to loggerheads with the commander-in-chief, but his bottom-line legacy as defense secretary to boost 'lethality' is driving a revolution in how the military conducts the most elemental form of combat on the small-unit level. ...

SAN DIEGO — A military judge on Tuesday asked the Navy to address claims that allegations from a potential government witness were being leaked to the media in the case of a Navy SEAL charged with murder in the 2017 death of an Iraqi war prisoner.The judge, Capt. Aaron Rugh, ...

Could artificial intelligence systems predict the next major natural disaster? It's one of the ways the Defense Department wants to leverage the technology in partnership with tech companies, according to a new report. ...

A new pilot program from the Department of Veterans Affairs aims to help student veterans enroll in non-traditional programs that teach high-tech skills.Dubbed the Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC) program, it was announced Feb. 13 on the GI Bill website. ...

Holding more cadets accountable for misconduct in the ranks is the only way the service academies will 'move the needle' on stopping a troubling sexual assault trend, top school officials testified Wednesday. ...

A Marine special operator received the nation's third-highest valor award after his heroism in Iraq during the bloody fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State saved his comrades' lives. ...

The U.S. Army may be close to a breakthrough in lethality with its Next Generation Squad Weapon program, but what will make it truly deadly is the new sighting system that guides the 6.8mm round on target, ...

BANGKOK — Thailand and the United States on Tuesday hosted the opening ceremony for the annual Cobra Gold military exercise, the biggest activity of its type in the Asia-Pacific region with 29 nations taking part as participants or observers. ...