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  Navy uniform updates include neck gaiters, two-piece swimsuits for physical test

  Sailors now have the option to wear a black neck gaiter during cold weather as well as a two-piece swim suit for the physical readiness test, among some of the uniform updates announced Monday by the Navy.

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  Yokota post office faces package pileup a month after changing pickup system

  The post office at Yokota Air Base said on Facebook that it has reached "maximum capacity" and needs people to pick up packages so that it can process incoming mail.

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  Gunman's behavior changed after trip to native Saudi Arabia, friends say

  Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani was described as "strange" and "angry" in the weeks leading up to Friday's shooting rampage, but schoolmates and other acquaintances said he showed no outward sign that he was preparing to open fire inside a classroom building where he had been training to become a military aviator.

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  In documents, US military trainers describe Afghan security forces as incompetent, unmotivated and rife with deserters

  In a trove of confidential government interviews obtained by The Washington Post, U.S., NATO and Afghan officials described their efforts to create an Afghan proxy force as a long-running calamity.

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  US officials reveal how massive rebuilding projects in Afghanistan backfired

  George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all promised the same thing: The United States would not get stuck with the burden of "nation-building" in Afghanistan.