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Twenty special tactics airmen are marching from Texas to Florida to pay tribute to Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, a special tactics combat controller, who was killed in action in eastern Afghanistan Nov. 27. The airmen set off from the Medina Annex at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, at 2 a.m. ...

Fixes to the Army's newest pistol last year have drastically increased its reliability, according to a Pentagon report. Army officials found a 'large number of stoppages' when shooting the M17 and M18 handguns with 9mm ball ammunition in early testing. ...

Erin Schaefer has always felt most like himself behind the wheel of a truck. 'I've always had what a lot of people say is the trucker's blood,' he said. 'I like to get out and drive and live on the open road. All my life I've just loved to drive.' He spent a decade in the Army doing just that. ...

Military communities whose local construction projects weren't scheduled to begin until later this year are among the most likely to be cut to fund the border wall, two U.S. officials who briefed reporters at the Pentagon said Friday. The officials described, on the condition that they not be named, ...

The Army Combat Fitness Test will likely become standard in some parts of the Army a few months earlier than the deadline to bring it to full operating capability, which can be in October 2019, but no later than 2020, according to policy released last summer. ...

Security forces airmen are getting a new weapon. The Air Force issued a memorandum Dec. 3 that formalizes the arrival of the M18 Modular Handgun System for base defenders. The M18 handgun is a compact version of Sig Sauer's M-17, which chambers 9 mm ammunition. It will replace the Beretta M9, ...

The military's newest ground vehicle has problems with its maintenance, reliability and crew situational awareness and its most heavily armed version has been deemed 'not operationally effective' in a Pentagon report. The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle has been touted as the rugged, ...

The top Marine and the sergeant major of the Marine Corps visited Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on Feb. 21, to celebrate the 13th anniversary of the Corps' elite Raiders. Marine Forces Special Operations Command, or MARSOC, ...

The A-29 Super Tucano crash that killed a Navy aviator last summer at a New Mexico bombing range was caused when the pilot turned too sharply at a low airspeed after a weapon release and entered an uncontrollable dive. Navy Lt. Christopher Short, an experienced F/A-18 pilot, ...

Correction: The original fiscal 2017 and 2018 budget numbers in this story were erroneous and have since been corrected. WASHINGTON — Ahead of the White House's fiscal 2020 budget submission, expected next month, there's been a solid push for diplomacy and development spending, and it's coming from, ...

The makers of the Corps' new M27 automatic rifle, Heckler & Koch, took a playful jab at the Corps Tuesday, calling the Marines 'crayon eaters' in a post on its Facebook page. Heckler & Koch posted photos of a new batch of its M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles, or IARs, ...

Two Georgia-based soldiers have pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder in the case of the shooting death of a Fort Stewart noncommissioned officer who was gunned down outside his father's home on New Year's Eve. A police officer in St. Joseph Township, Michigan, ...

The Virginia General Assembly passed a bill earlier this week limiting the amount of money attorneys can charge military personnel when they are sued while deployed. Virginia Del. Joseph Lindsey, D-Norfolk, ...

According to a new government report, there has been double the demand for surplus M1911 .45 caliber pistols released for civilian sales from the Army, and the same program received 100,000 more requests for surplus M1 Garand .30 caliber rifles. ...

Any response by Marine forces based out of Europe to a crisis in Africa would have to overcome the tyranny of distance and time, meaning help could be a long way off. Even with the speed and long-distance capabilities afforded by tilt-rotor aircraft like MV-22 Ospreys, ...

The F-35A Joint Strike Fighter is still the way forward in the Air Force's vision of how it will fight the wars of tomorrow, despite the negative press that has often surrounded the aircraft. The F-35, ...

WASHINGTON — Then-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and other senior officials pushed the transfer of highly sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, despite objections from ethical and national security officials, ...

As the Corps prepares for future warfare in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean with tech adept forces, the Marines are looking at a host of technologies to help sink enemy ships. ...

The flying death machine that is the A-10 Thunderbolt II, built around a cannon capable of firing 4,200 rounds per minute, can eliminate anything in its path. But this fearsome gunship's days are numbered. Some Air Force Warthog pilots are transitioning to flying other aircraft, ...

CUCUTA, Colombia — The U.S. Air Force airlifted tons of aid to a Colombian town on the Venezuelan border Saturday as part of an effort to both help the Venezuelan people during their humanitarian and political crisis and undermine socialist President Nicolas Maduro. ...