AfriCom Investigates Video Purporting to Show Bodies in Niger Ambush The Twitter user who posted the images claimed to have received the images from a group affiliated with ISIS.
16 Marines Receive Medals for Role in Niger Investigation The Marines provided security, facilitated flights, and ensured effective communications for the Niger investigative team.
5 Things to Start Your Week -- 12/18/17 Here are five news stories and events to start your week, from the editors at Military.com:
Mattis Gives Guarded OK to New Military Force Authorization Defense Secretary Jim Mattis gave his conditional approval to a new authorization for the use of military force. Read more.
Niger Officials, Pentagon at Odds Over Ambush That Killed 4 US Troops Nigerien officials and villagers have given accounts of the ambush that are at odds with the Pentagon's initial version.
U.S. Army has Growing Role in Africa Missions The fight against Ebola is only the latest of the Army’s Africa expanding mission set, which has grown in recent years.
General Says No Soldiers Have Asked Out of Ebola Deployments The Army will stick to the plan to ramp up deployments to Africa later this month despite concerns expressed by top health...
450 US Troops Returning from Ebola Deployments The Pentagon said Thursday that 450 U.S. service members are in the process of returning home from their deployments to West...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
Coast Guard Set to Receive New Icebreaker by Year's End, Bolstering US Presence in Arctic The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic...
Marine Corps F-35C Was Used in Combat for First Time to Strike Houthis, Military Confirms Traveling at speeds of 1,200 mph, the F-35C can carry Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, air-to-air missiles and other...
Military Diversity Is Not the Problem "The main reason for concern about the U.S. military and its performance has to do with the variety of U.S. commitments and...
MacDill Airman Gets 5 Years Of Probation in 'Undead Apes' Blockchain Fraud U.S. District Judge William Jung sentenced Devin Rhoden to five years’ probation, a reflection of Rhoden’s substantial...
