Navy Already Rejecting Transgender Recruits After Trump Order A Navy memo dated the day after Trump signed his order directed recruiters to reject transgender applicants immediately...
Home from Boot Camp, Army Recruit from Oregon Dies of Fentanyl Overdose The prosecutor recommended a nearly six-year sentence for the drug seller, Michael D. Parris, and the defense lawyer...
Marine Recruiter Charged with Felony Child Seduction of Teen Student in Indiana Investigators confronted 28-year-old Staff Sgt. Daniel Escobar at a local high school on Jan. 17 after the father of the...
Early Momentum: Army Hits 30,000 Recruits, Half its Goal for the Year The service has 30,000 new enlistments this year -- an increase of 6,000 compared to the same period last year, the data...
Surge of Female Enlistments Helped Drive Army Success in Reaching 2024 Recruiting Goal Nearly 10,000 women signed up for active duty in 2024, an 18% jump from the previous year, while male recruitment increased...
The Top 10 Military.com News Stories of 2024 This year's list includes investigations into abuse at military base child care facilities and alarming indications of cancer...
Hearing Loss, Asthma Won't Disqualify Air Force and Space Force Recruits Under New Policy The new waivers come as the Air Force managed to scrape by its active-duty recruiting goals, in large part due to policy...
Do Air Shows Really Help Military Readiness and Recruiting? Congress Plans to Find Out. Lawmakers want the secretary of defense to brief Congress on how sending military aircraft to air shows affects recruiting...
Navy Cuts Length of Boot Camp Amid Rise in Recruiting Totals The Navy says that, starting next month, it will shorten the length of its Basic Military Training program -- commonly known...
Female Teens Don't See Themselves in the US Military. Here's Why, According to Pentagon Surveys. Surveys find that just 21% of American females ages 16 to 21 were qualified to serve in the U.S. military compared with 25%...
Air Force Unveils New Policies on Shaving, Nail Polish, Hair Length in Leaked Memos Medical shaving waivers for thousands of airmen and Space Force Guardians will be reset and reevaluated, according to new...
Trump Orders Pentagon Policy Saying Transgender Troops Are 'Not Consistent' with Military Ideals The order, which follows actions Trump took last week to lay the groundwork for it, gives the Pentagon 30 days to report back...
White House Funding Freeze Stokes Uncertainty for Military Families as Raft of Programs Under Review An announcement late Monday from the Office of Management and Budget panicked military family members who feared losing...
VA Says 44 Programs Will Continue After Review Required by Trump Federal Funding Freeze In a statement released late Tuesday, department officials said all programs would continue uninterrupted.
'No One Knows Who He Is': Trump's Pick for Army Secretary Faces Confirmation Hearing The relatively obscure financier and political adviser, who is also a veteran, is set to lead the Pentagon's largest branch...