Russia Asks US for Help with IEDs at Olympics Russian officials have asked the U.S. for help in detecting and dismantling improvised explosive devices at the Olympics.
Pentagon's New Role for JIEDDO Counter-IED Agency The Joint IED Defeat Organization will have its funding and personnel cut in a diminished role at the Defense Department.
Carter Awards DoD’s Improvised Explosive Device Agency Unit Award Defense Secretary Ash Carter presented the Joint Meritorious Unit Award to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat...
Pentagon Identifies Sailor Killed Supporting Mosul Offensive The DoD has released the name of a decorated sailor killed in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Iraq.
1st Cav Soldiers Among 4 Americans Killed in Afghanistan The U.S. Defense Department identified the two soldiers killed by a suicide bomber at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
Scholarship Fund to Honor Soldier Killed by IED in Iraq Friends have started a scholarship fund to honor Army 1st Lt. Weston Lee.
NATO Soldier Killed in Suicide Attack North of Kabul A NATO soldier was killed in a suicide attack a day after two U.S. troops in a NATO convoy were killed near Kandahar.
Pentagon Identifies Soldier Killed in Iraq from 10th Mountain Division Spc. Alexander W. Missildine, 20, died Oct. 1 as a result of injuries sustained when an IED detonated near his convoy.
Deadliest IED Back on Iraq Battlefield The roadside bomb that killed a U.S. soldier in Iraq last week was an explosively formed penetrator, a top U.S. general said.
Police Who Shot Florida Airman 6 Times in His Home May Have Entered Wrong Apartment, Family Says Senior Airman Roger Fortson lived in an off-base residence, and his special operations squadron at Hurlburt Field in the...
He Served His Country. In Return, His Country Sent Him into Exile. The military relies on noncitizens to fill its ranks. No one is sure how many are later banished from the country they fought...
VA Executives Received $10.8 Million in Improper Bonuses Under PACT Act, Watchdog Finds The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Inspector General found that the VA paid $1 million more in bonuses to senior...
Investigation Finds Navy Supply Ship Ran Aground After Captain Left to Eat Dinner The Alan Shepard was launched in 2006 and has space for a crew of more than 120, all of whom are typically civilian mariners...
Florida Airman Was Shot by Deputy Within Seconds of Opening Apartment Door, Body Cam Footage Shows Only as Fortson is lying on the floor of his apartment fatally wounded does the deputy tell him to drop his weapon, a firearm...