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Dec 22nd: A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a 1-year-old medical patient along with seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, Texas. Read more ▸
Dec 22nd: Coast Guard crews have seized about half a million pounds of drugs this year. But instead of killing "enemy combatants," they’re sending them back home. Read more ▸
Dec 22nd: "The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships," the president said Monday, "along with me because I’m a very aesthetic person." Read more ▸
Dec 22nd: Overall, the services met an average of 103% of their active-duty recruiting goals for fiscal 2025, according to the Defense Department. Read more ▸
Dec 22nd: An annual assessment of how DOD funds deterrence efforts in the Indo-Pacific revealed problematic inconsistencies, according to a GAO report. Read more ▸
Dec 22nd: There remain only about a dozen survivors of the 1941 surprise attack, which killed just over 2,400 troops and propelled the U.S. into World War II. Read more ▸
Dec 22nd: Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Francis L. Donovan is named to take over for Adm. Alvin Holsey, who retired from his post as commander of SOUTHCOM on Dec. 12. Read more ▸
Dec 22nd: Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and join fishing and golf trips. Read more ▸
Dec 22nd: The Senate confirmed Adm. Kevin Lunday as the Coast Guard’s new commandant Thursday night. Read more ▸
Dec 22nd: Airmen in enlisted professional military education will stay in the course, regardless of whether they have passed the school’s internal fitness test. Read more ▸
Dec 20th: Jordan confirmed that its air force took part in strikes launched by the United States on Islamic State group targets in Syria. Read more ▸
Dec 19th: A U.S. official said that the attack was conducted using F-15 Eagle jets, A-10 Thunderbolt ground attack aircraft and AH-64 Apache helicopters. Read more ▸
Dec 19th: DOD is the only one of the government’s 24 major agencies never to pass. Read more ▸
Dec 19th: The move ends a practice that had been made obsolete by simulators that mimic battlefield injuries. Read more ▸
Dec 19th: Raytheon was awarded a contract from the Air Force to put its air-cooled, compact PhantomStrike fire control radar into the X-62 as part of its upgrades. Read more ▸
Dec 19th: An Army Reserve lawyer detailed as a federal immigration judge has been fired after granting asylum at a high rate. Read more ▸
Dec 19th: The visits uncovered “unsanitary conditions in bathroom facilities,” specifically “leaking raw sewage, non-functional toilets, and general disrepair..." Read more ▸
Dec 19th: Members of the U.S. Coast Guard will receive their own (taxed) version of President Donald Trump’s “Warrior Dividend” this month. Read more ▸
Dec 19th: The first hull is expected to hit the water in 2028 as a more nimble companion to the Navy’s larger warships, Navy Secretary John Phelan said. Read more ▸
Dec 18th: A LUCAS drone was successfully launched from the flight deck of the USS Santa Barbara, a littoral combat ship currently operating in the Arabian Gulf. Read more ▸
Dec 18th: "Do they think we’re deployed, or homeless?" Care packages reveal Americans have little idea what modern soldiers need. Read more ▸
Dec 18th: “We’ve heard your feedback from the field, and we listened,” CMSAF David Wolfe said about dropping quarterly standards and readiness reviews. Read more ▸
Dec 18th: It does not, however, give Veterans Affairs doctors leeway to prescribe the drug. Read more ▸
Dec 18th: Updates include sex-neutral requirements for all combat MOS Marines to score a minimum of 210 out of a possible 300. Read more ▸
Dec 18th: Wars are not won by evacuation, but George Washington’s decision to evacuate Long Island in August 1776 ultimately saved the the Continental Army. Read more ▸
