A Texas National Guard soldier, deployed in support of the state’s mission at the border with Mexico, faces human smuggling charges after leading police on a high-speed car chase, state law enforcement officials said.

Col. R.J. Garcia, a West Point alum who has flown Apache helicopters in combat, will be the next commandant of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy.

Lt. Col. Christopher O’Melia was removed from command of the 1st Battalion, 4th Marines based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., on March 26, said a spokesman for the 1st Marine Division.

The Army has officially fielded its Next Generation Squad Weapon, sending the long-anticipated replacements for the M4 carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon to a 101st Airborne Division brigade, the service announced.

The experiment, known as Project Convergence, was the largest effort yet to pull the services together under a single command and control apparatus to choose the best weapon in the Pentagon’s arsenal to destroy a target quickly.

American forces are not yet being kicked out of Niger, a top Pentagon policymaker told House lawmakers Thursday just days after the country’s military junta announced it was severing ties with the U.S. military.

Sending Ukraine needed ammunition and other military support helps deter China from using its growing military might in the Pacific, including against Taiwan, top U.S. defense officials told lawmakers on Wednesday.

The Marine Corps should train male and female recruits in gender-integrated platoons at both of its recruit depots and the Pentagon should adopt new polices to protect the careers of pregnant troops, a Pentagon panel focused on issues affecting women recommended.

Four U.S. Army ships departed Virginia on Tuesday en route to the eastern Mediterranean Sea where soldiers on board will help build a temporary, offshore port to deliver needed aid into war-torn Gaza, the Pentagon announced.

The Pentagon on Monday sent Congress a nearly $850 billion budget request for fiscal 2025 that would invest heavily in technology aimed at countering Chinese military advancements and a pay raise for troops while also shrinking the size of U.S. armed forces.