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SAN DIEGO -- A former Navy captain has been sentenced to six months in prison for moonlighting for a Malaysian contractor nicknamed 'Fat Leonard' at the center of one of the maritime service's worst corruption scandals.Former Capt. ...

The Air Force has quietly expanded a database used to keep tabs on airmen under investigation to include all of its officer ranks.The Automated Case Tracking System, or ACTS, in use by the service since 2003, previously had applied only to field-grade officers -- majors, ...

Members of a House subcommittee on Thursday chided senior leaders of the Army and Air Force for failing to provide safe housing for military families, and urged all services to work harder to reduce sexual assault in their ranks.In a hearing on military quality-of-life issues, ...

Two crewmen repairing lifeboats on an oil tanker where hurled into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday, after one of the boats accidentally launched itself off the ship, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.It happened 70 miles off Chincoteague, Virginia, and involved the tanker Chemtrans Nova, ...

Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo was served Wednesday with a 'notice of violation' from the New Mexico Environment Department after monitoring wells tested at twice the acceptable levels for suspected carcinogenic contaminants. ...

A U.S. Navy veteran who last year admitted he brandished a pistol at four men in western Maine after a night out drinking was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District in Bangor to one year of probation.Justin Woods, 32, of Arundel pleaded guilty in October to one count of simple assault, ...

The House Veterans Affairs Committee has started investigating allegations of influence by three friends of President Donald Trump over decisions made at the Department of Veterans Affairs and what role, if any, VA insiders played in instituting their recommendations.Committee Chairman Rep. ...

WASHINGTON — The Guantanamo Bay detention center would receive new prisoners for the first time in more than a decade under one option being considered as the U.S. withdraws its forces from Syria and works to resolve the fate of hundreds of captured suspected Islamic State fighters, officials say.U. ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — The Navy's USS North Dakota submarine has returned from its first deployment.The military on Wednesday announced that the attack sub had returned to its homeport in Groton, Connecticut, after serving a six-month security mission in the European area.The $2.6 billion, ...

Four-star Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel took to social media to apologize for a uniform gaffe committed while attending President Donald Trump's annual address before Congress on Tuesday night.'A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the State of the Union last night,' Lengyel, ...

As the Pentagon moves forward with tests on autonomous drone swarming technology, few doubt that the warfighting concept will work.But major questions persist, ...

The Marine Corps is looking for companies capable of designing and building variants of its Amphibious Combat Vehicle so it can perform missions such as carrying a 30mm cannon into battle.The Corps selected BAE Systems in June to build the ACV, ...

Marines will test new ways to take out far-flung targets from Navy ships and ashore during the next phase of a years-long experiment meant to prep leathernecks for the future fight.Long-range precision fires and command-and-control will be the focus of the next iteration of Sea Dragon 2025, Lt. Gen. ...

PORTSMOUTH -- While making a pitch for building a wall along the Mexican border, Vice President Mike Pence thanked Coast Guardsmen for recently working without pay during the longest government shutdown in modern American history that was a result of a dispute over funding construction of the wall. ...

A sinkhole -- or, rather, sinkholes -- at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island has forced officials to close one of the base's major causeways.The causeway, which dates to the 1960s, is revealing of the depot's history and construction and has, in past years, ...

Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. Follow him on Twitter @JosephVMicallef.Roughly 12 weeks ago, French citizens in Paris took to the streets to protest the imposition of sharp, new taxes on fuel. ...

NEW LONDON -- Lockheed Martin, which owns Stratford-based Sikorsky, has pledged $1 million to the National Coast Guard Museum, the largest donation to date from the defense industry.The company will have a wing of the museum named after it called the Lockheed Martin Saving Lives by Air Gallery. ...

MOSCOW — Another U.S.-Russian nuclear pact is in danger following the U.S. move to withdraw from a Cold War-era arms control treaty, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday.Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov charged that the U.S. ...

An annual membership survey from the organization Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) showed that less than half of surveyed members support a more gender-neutral version of the Department of Veterans Affairs' iconic motto: 'To care for him care who shall have borne the battle, ...

The U.S. Navy is poised to deploy a littoral combat ship to Latin America this year for a first-of-its-kind counter-drug mission, U.S. Southern Command's top leader said Thursday.Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Adm. ...