Service officials said it was too soon to tell how they will be impacted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s order to pare down the military’s senior ranks, but the Marine Corps will likely be affected the most.

Anthony Tata, a retired Army brigadier general nominated to oversee millions of service members and their families, pledged to be an apolitical leader Tuesday as he came under fire from Democrats for past comments denigrating liberals.

The Army is pausing helicopter training flights around the Pentagon after a Black Hawk on Thursday forced two commercial airplanes to abort landings at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Personnel chiefs for each of the military services told a congressional subpanel on Wednesday that they will feel an impact from the Pentagon’s deferred resignation program and early retirement initiative and are analyzing where the effects will be felt most.

The panel voted 35-21 in favor of the bill. It requires the Pentagon to spend the additional funds by October 2034, including nearly $9 billion on renovations to barracks and unaccompanied housing, allowance increases and other quality-of-life improvements for service members.

The Defense Department has agreements with 28 partner countries that allow it to override congressionally mandated “Buy American” requirements. It is unclear how those arrangements will be affected by Trump’s tariffs and whether the defense industry will be strategically carved out of the levies.

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court to allow a ban on transgender troops to take effect while legal challenges to the policy continue.

The Espionage Act of 1917 already prohibits the photography of sensitive military sites but the statute makes no mention of videography — an omission that Reps. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., and Don Davis, D-N.C., hope to correct.

The Senate voted early Friday to confirm retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, elevating him to four-star general and the nation’s highest-ranking military position.

The Pentagon has not announced plans to change the force posture in South Korea, but senators on Thursday said they were concerned by rumors that troops there will be redeployed elsewhere.