Alaska Army National Guard aviators rescued a family of six, including an elderly woman and child, stranded for almost 24 hours on the Kuskokwim River near Tuntutuliak during a storm.

The contract will help startup Atomic-6 complete flight qualification testing of its Light Wing product, a solar array that could use the sun’s energy to power spacecraft. The startup also aims to get a solar array on the moon.

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply says it’s suing the Navy “for negligence, nuisance, and trespass resulting in damages” in connection to massive jet fuel leaks at the Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in 2021.

The command’s Deputy Commander, Brig. Gen. Chandler Atwood, died Sunday. No cause of death was given for the highly respected senior officer.

The Navy reversed a major recruiting slump in 2024 and even met its 2025 goals early, but a lack of documentation on how it achieved those gains could undermine future efforts, a government watchdog agency said.

The U.S. Army in Europe has established a command-and-control capability with allies that could deliver a big battlefield advantage if it’s integrated worldwide, a top U.S. commander said.

Bimonthly Patriot Express flights at five overseas locations will end this fall due to low ridership, according to U.S. Transportation Command.

Coast guard officers from Australia, India and Japan will arrive on Guam aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Stratton to mark the conclusion of the inaugural Quad Sail.

An accomplished Marine Corps helicopter and tiltrotor pilot — a veteran of the war in Iraq — took up his first overseas command Wednesday at the home of a Navy carrier air wing.

A “playful” online petition urging the Air Force to name Chief Master Sgt. Jeremiah Grisham as its next top enlisted leader was intended as a tribute to the airman, not a critique of the incumbent, according to the petition’s organizer.