More U.S. troops — about 1,115 service members — have been approved for deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Joint Task Force-Southern Border.

The service is bringing about 6,700 troops from every Army division, 150 vehicles and more than 50 aircraft for the event. The cost for the parade and other events will be between $25 and $45 million.

President Donald Trump unveiled plans for a $175 billion “Golden Dome” missile defense system, insisting it will be operational by the end of his term.

The Pentagon has ordered senior leaders to pull and review all library books at military educational institutions that address diversity, critical race theory or gender ideology by May 21.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he has directed the Defense Department to cut at least 20% of its four-star generals and admirals, along with other reductions across the military.

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.

The overall decrease was due to a 13% drop in reported sexual assaults across the Army, according to a report released Thursday. Three other services saw increases. The Navy had the largest jump of 4.4%.

American forces have hit more than 1,000 Houthi targets in Yemen as part of a campaign that began in March to stop attacks by the militants on the shipping lanes of the Red Sea, the Pentagon said.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, Patrick Weaver, a special assistant to Hegseth, Ricky Buria, a career Marine who served as a junior military assistant to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Hegseth, and Justin Fulcher, the founder of a global telehealth startup, will serve as senior advisers.

A pilot was killed Thursday while attempting to land a civilian aircraft at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., base officials said. The crash happened at about 11:39 a.m. when the aircraft landed in preparation for the Air Power Over Hampton Roads air show scheduled for the weekend.