Donald Trump is delivering his first military commencement address since returning to office, with the president set to speak to West Point’s graduating class Saturday morning.

The Government Accountability Office found the effect of the hold on 447 military promotions initiated by the Alabama senator varied based on individual circumstances.

Vice President JD Vance told military academy graduates Friday that President Donald Trump is working to ensure that U.S. armed forces are only sent into harm’s way with clear goals rather than the “undefined missions” and “open-ended conflicts” of the past.

In the weeks after Army Reserve Sgt. Kennedy L. Sanders was killed in the January 2024 attack on the Tower 22 base in Jordan, her belongings were sent to her parents. Her iPhone was believed to be destroyed in the attack — until it found its way home a year later.

The Army has announced the future of air assault: the MV-75, designed to sweep into battle at more than 320 mph, skimming treetops before seeming to stop in midair as its rotors pivot to a vertical for landing. But that future isn’t here yet.

U.S. Army paratroopers will soon have more to leap for, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced this week during a visit with 82nd Airborne Division soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C.

More U.S. troops — about 1,115 service members — have been approved for deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Joint Task Force-Southern Border.

While service members deployed to combat zones are exempt from income taxes, other troops are subject to the federal income tax and are shortchanged when their bonuses are also taxed, lawmakers argue.

The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out. The Treasury says there are about 114 billion pennies currently in circulation in the U.S., but they’re greatly underutilized.

On a cool, overcast, misty Thursday morning, nearly 1,500 soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as the Old Guard, placed more than 260,000 flags in just four hours.