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Around 140 troops wounded in 10 days of Operation Epic Fury, Pentagon says

Mar 10th: “The vast majority of these injuries have been minor, and 108 service members have already returned to duty,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said. Read more ▸

Army approves first new offensive hand grenade in nearly 60 years

Mar 10th: The M111 relies primarily on blast overpressure rather than fragmented inner pieces to incapacitate, making it better suited for close-quarters combat. Read more ▸

Military child care centers opening with ‘lightning speed’ under new pilot program

Mar 10th: The center brings 216 more child care slots under a DOD contract with nonprofit Armed Services YMCA. Read more ▸

Majority of American voters oppose the Iran war, poll finds

Mar 10th: A Quinnipiac University national poll found that 53% of American voters oppose the military action against Iran, and 74% oppose sending in ground troops. Read more ▸

Two Iranian warships take sanctuary in India and Sri Lanka

Mar 10th: The sinking of an Iranian warship by a U.S. Navy submarine last week became a diplomatic embarrassment for New Delhi. Read more ▸

Marine Corps to ramp up swim test difficulty

Mar 10th: Beginning Oct. 1, Marines will qualify under five water survival levels: Basic, Novice, Competent, Proficient and Advanced. Read more ▸

Iran to face ‘most intense day of strikes,’ Hegseth says

Mar 10th: The rhetoric was equally sharp from Tehran. Iran’s parliament speaker said on X that Iran was “definitely not looking for a ceasefire." Read more ▸

Australian submariners have a brush with Iran war

Mar 10th: “It would be quite straightforward to not be on the consoles or in the control room" during a recent U.S. submarine torpedo kill, said one analyst. Read more ▸

Trump calls war in Iran a ‘little excursion’

Mar 09th: Trump declared the U.S. has already “won” the war with Iran “in many ways,” but conceded that broader objectives of the conflict remain unresolved. Read more ▸

USS George H.W. Bush completes pre-deployment exercise

Mar 09th: Composite Training Unit Exercise, or COMPTUEX, readies naval task forces for sustained combat and results in recommendations for deployment. Read more ▸

Master Chief actor condemns use of character in White House’s Iran war hype video

Mar 09th: “I demand that the producers of this disgusting and juvenile war porn remove my voice immediately,” Steve Downes wrote in a post on X. Read more ▸

US, Iran spar over status of Iranian warship sunk by submarine

Mar 09th: The United States and Iran have offered sharply different accounts of the sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean last week. Read more ▸

Coast Guard breaks 18-year record with $250 million drug bust

Mar 09th: A Coast Guard crew seized a record 22,052 pounds of cocaine from one vessel. Read more ▸

US B-1B Lancers arrive at RAF Fairford as strikes on Iran intensify

Mar 09th: The U.K. Ministry of Defence confirmed Saturday that U.S. forces had begun using the British base for “specific defensive operations." Read more ▸

Prewar US intel found intervention in Iran wasn’t likely to change leadership

Mar 09th: A February intelligence assessment determined that American military intervention was not likely to lead to regime change in the Islamic Republic. Read more ▸

Hegseth downplays risk to US troops from Iran-Russia cooperation

Mar 09th: "No one is putting us in danger,” Hegseth said during a Sunday interview. “We’re putting their guys in danger.” Read more ▸

Anthropic sues Trump administration seeking to undo ‘supply chain risk’ designation

Mar 09th: The Pentagon last week formally designated the AI company a supply chain risk after an unusually public dispute over its AI chatbot Claude. Read more ▸

The ‘Old Guard’ marks centennial of watching over Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Mar 09th: Concern over the lack of respect for the gravesite led Army Maj. Gen. Fox Conner to order an armed military guard on March 24, 1926. Read more ▸

NATO defenses shoot down ballistic missile in Turkey

Mar 09th: The ballistic missile was downed by NATO units stationed in the eastern Mediterranean. Read more ▸

Pentagon identifies seventh soldier killed in action during Operation Epic Fury

Mar 09th: Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington succumbed to his injuries on Sunday after a March 1 Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. Read more ▸

European NATO nations reduce reliance on US arms imports: SIPRI data

Mar 09th: European governments are spending more defense money in South Korea, France and Israel, according to a new analysis. Read more ▸

Guardsman who served as NYPD officer dies in Kuwait in non-combat incident

Mar 08th: In a social media post, the New York City Police Department stated that Davius died following a “medical episode while deployed to Kuwait.” Read more ▸

Seventh US service member killed in action during Operation Epic Fury

Mar 08th: A service member seriously wounded during an Iranian attack on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia has succumbed to their injuries, U.S. Central Command announced. Read more ▸

Pentagon and FAA agree to conduct anti-drone laser tests in New Mexico

Mar 08th: The agreement comes after the deployment of lasers led the FAA to suddenly close airspace in Texas twice in the last month. Read more ▸

First US casualties of Operation Epic Fury return as Trump vows escalation

Mar 07th: The service members were killed when an Iranian drone evaded American air defenses and struck a makeshift operations center in Port Shuabia, Kuwait. Read more ▸

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