Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas National Guard to prepare to manage any “lawlessness” that could arise Saturday during protests planned in cities throughout the state.

The combined force of nearly 5,000 National Guard soldiers and Marines deployed to Los Angeles to help contain immigration protests have expanded their mission to protect federal agents as they conduct raids and arrests throughout the city, military officials say.

The Defense Department doubled the number of National Guard troops to deploy to Los Angeles to help protect federal facilities and personnel as the city grapples with ongoing protests against immigration raids and arrests.

The cuts to base personnel were the product of Defense Department’s efforts to reduce staff through resignations and early retirements among civilian personnel and a hiring freeze that blocks replacing them.

A retired Air Force general who was acquitted of sexual assault but found guilty of lesser charges during a court-martial last year has asked President Donald Trump for a pardon because his case is an example of “a woke-inspired, DEI-led campaign of lawfare.”

Spc. Kip D. Holloway, 25, who argued in a preliminary hearing that he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed a fellow soldier along a highway in Texas, will face a court-martial.

The 4th Combat Aviation Brigade’s Monster Garage is the home of a platoon-sized unit innovating how the 4th Infantry Division incorporates small, cheap drones among its soldiers. It’s an initiative underway in most Army divisions to keep up with rapidly evolving battlefield technology.

Ronald Schow has spent more than a decade fighting to right a mistake — his promotion to major was botched in an administrative error — and said this final court decision against him was disappointing and exhausting.

Sgt. Reece Martin wanted to know more about his great uncle, Lawrence Martin, who landed in France on D-Day and died 10 days later. So he spent years finding out. Last week, on the 84th anniversary of the day Lawrence Martin enlisted, the Army celebrated his service and presented medals to the family.

The Coast Guard was using a method to determine back pay that shortchanged hundreds of veterans and must stop, according to federal court documents filed Friday in a yearslong lawsuit over retention panels found to have illegally thinned noncommissioned officers from the service.