Nineteen retired generals, admirals and former top civilian defense officials have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing former President Donald Trump’s bid for immunity from prosecution.
An unnamed man identified as a Chinese national forced his way through a gate at Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, the service’s largest live-fire combat training base, last week before being detained by military police.
The first operational F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets will be assigned to the 142nd Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard, the unit that intercepts hostile aircraft over the northwest United States, the Air Force said.
The Navy’s plan to buy fewer ships while accelerating early retirements for others across the fleet has drawn the opening salvos of criticism from at least one member of Congress.
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, which was commissioned in 1977, will remain in service through the decade’s end, shelving plans that once called for the second-oldest Nimitz-class aircraft carrier to leave the fleet as early as 2027.
The Navy will cut its purchase of Virginia-class submarines and F-35C Lightning II carrier-based fighter jets in fiscal 2025 amid uncertainty over budget constraints, including the 2024 defense appropriation stalled in Congress.
The Marine Corps is investigating two lance corporals assigned to the prestigious Marine Corps Barracks Washington for their roles in scrawling antisemitic and racial slurs on the walls of a dormitory at the University of Maryland.
The Defense Department inspector general is sending investigators to several Navy installations to evaluate suicide rates. The Pentagon will also look at suicides and suicide attempts on ships at sea.
Two Marines assigned to the service’s oldest and most high-profile installation in Washington have been charged with scrawling antisemitic symbols and racial slurs in a University of Maryland dormitory.
The Navy has committed $11 million to the cleanup of the fire that destroyed a long-shuttered World War II blimp hangar at the former Tustin air station in Southern California, but local officials said much more is needed from the service.