The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has commenced a multiyear mission to account for Americans lost in the World War II sinking of a Japanese prisoner transport ship in the Philippines.

The Philippine military has identified the U.S. military aircraft that crashed during a Tuesday roadway exercise as an Air Force C-146 Wolfhound special operations plane, an incident that injured five crew members.

The Marine Corps will keep the M27 automatic rifle as its standard service weapon rather than adopt the higher-caliber firearm being fielded by the Army, according to the amphibious force.

The Pentagon has secured $194 million to build the first of a fleet of new ski planes that will support troops flying over the Arctic and Antarctic.

The American Forces Network is ending its eight-channel satellite television service for U.S. military personnel living off base across Europe and Asia.

Starlink is helping American airmen stay in touch with loved ones during deployments to one of the most isolated spots on Earth, according to members of the New York Air National Guard working in Antarctica.

Harumi Aketo, a Japanese barber, finally laid down his scissors after cutting the hair of U.S. service members, American civilians and Japanese base employees for nearly two decades at the Stars and Stripes Pacific headquarters in central Tokyo.

The fuel leaked from a tank but was rapidly contained, wing spokeswoman Capt. Samantha Perez said.

An Air Force technical sergeant continues a family tradition of sorts, working at Yokota Air Base, where his father and grandfather, also former airmen, were stationed years earlier.

Reconnaissance Marines had four run-ins with bears during recent parachute training in northern Japan, according to the commander of an Alaska-based U.S. Army battalion.