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A military dad saw his chance to surprise his son, Luca, on Monday. Luca, 9, was participating in a Taekwondo session Monday night which was set up by his parents.

The new order directs federal agencies to ensure that any college or university receiving research grants agrees to promote free speech and the exchange of ideas, and to follow federal rules guiding free expression.

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Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Lynn W. Hadfield's remains were buried 74 years to the day of Hadfield's crash during a bomber plane run from France to Germany just months before the war's end.

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Operation Prairie Hay Drop brought food to hungry bovines on Wednesday in the eastern part of Nebraska, according to a statement from the state's National Guard.

Brieux Dash had a military family by blood and another by marriage. He joined after high school and went twice into combat, and came home with PTSD. He raised a family of three and was able to graduate college, but his demons were gaining on him.

John Walker Lindh is currently being held at the Federal Correctional Institution Terre Haute and is set to be released May 23, based on the full term of his sentence minus time for good behavior.

The Navy plans sweeping changes to bridges and control systems on its ships to increase crew efficiency and help them avoid collisions like those that killed 17 sailors on the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain.

The new infrastructure strategy would shift the Air Force from its approach of spending money to fix its structures in the worst shape to primarily investing in preventative maintenance throughout a structure’s life cycle.

Anthony Williams is the latest former Army officer to plead guilty to charges stemming from the bribery and bid-rigging conspiracy that took place from 2008 through 2014 at Fort Gordon.

The flooding of Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base provided a dramatic example of how climate change poses a national security threat, even as the White House plays down the issue.

It’s a rare occurrence, but the Marines practice the procedures regularly and last week hauled out pallets stacked with twin mattresses at Camp Pendleton, Calif., to run through the a "hung gear" drill.

At the age of 94 years and 172 days, Jimmy Carter has reached a new milestone, becoming the longest-living president in U.S. history.

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During Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation, Americans have learned that candidate Donald Trump’s associates repeatedly interacted with Russians and their conduits. Now, the special counsel could connect any dots — if they exist — and determine if the campaign worked with Russia to get Trump elected.

Water continues to recede at Offutt Air Force Base and Camp Ashland in Nebraska, allowing work crews to enter and assess damage at buildings that flooded nearly a week ago when heavy rains and melting snow upstream overwhelmed levees and shorelines along the Missouri and Platte rivers.

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The catastrophic crashes of two Boeing 737 Max 8 planes in less than five months have focused attention on what information the company shared with pilots and how much training they received on the new aircraft. Aviation experts also now question whether pilots for some foreign airlines are prepared to handle emergency situations.

The U.S. Coast Guard is offloading more than 27,000 pounds of cocaine in Miami Beach that was seized in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

The House will vote next week on a measure rejecting President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people serving openly in the military, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Thursday, setting up a likely new congressional rebuke for White House.

A look at where investigations related to President Donald Trump stand and what may lie ahead for him:

Base officials currently believe the driver did not intentionally crash the car into the building, but the crash is still under investigation, according to a news release release.

The political and economic crisis in Venezuela tops the agenda of President Donald Trump's meeting Friday with leaders from the Caribbean, a region that has been far from united in joining the U.S. call for the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro.

At trial in December, Stephen Cometa was found guilty of forcibly assaulting, intimidating or interfering with a federal employee, forcibly resisting or opposing a federal employee and using or carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.

He died while serving on the USS Oklahoma along with 429 sailors and marines on Dec. 7, 1941. And for more than 70 years, the body of Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Roman W. Sadlowski remained unidentified.

Along with her fellow musicians, who played Irish and Celtic tunes for seven years at Walter Reed National Military Medical Hospital, Carolyn Surrick has witnessed the toll of war, not only on the badly wounded, but also on families and communities.

Linda Strobel cried when they got home from the cafeteria where the children had laughed at her daughter in the spring of 2017. She held Grace and explained that sometimes people are afraid of what they don’t understand. Maybe Grace could help them understand.

In addition to deployments along the U.S.Mexico border, Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller also cited funding transfers, recovery costs from Hurricanes Florence and Michael, new housing allowances and civilian pay raises as factors affecting combat readiness.

Sgt. 1st Class Ethan Carpenter was killed March 15 during the routine training exercise. He was a reconnaissance specialist assigned to the elite 75th Ranger Regiment’s special troops battalion at Fort Benning in Georgia.

Decked out in a kid-sized flight suit, Je’Moni Ford, 9, became the U.S. Air Force Academy’s “youngest cadet” this month, quickly advancing from the fourth grade straight into college — at least for a day.

An American security contractor at the center of a mysterious case roiling Haitian politics says that he and a group of fellow veterans were sent to Haiti on a mission to protect a businessman signing a more than $50 million contract at the country's central bank. "It went bad for us," said one retired Navy SEAL

Command Sgt. Maj. Todd Sims relinquished responsibility of the 101st Airborne Division in a ceremony Wednesday.

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The projects in Puerto Rico that would potentially have their funding taken away to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border include the construction of a school for military children on what was once Ramey Air Force Base and improvements to Camp Santiago, a training facility operated by the Puerto Rico National Guard.

Dorwin Lamkin, 96, was a corpsman on the USS Nevada when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941.

A team from the University of Connecticut has developed a device that detects normal and abnormal walking patterns. The goal is to develop an algorithm that can predict from someone's walking patterns if they're going to get injured and what the injury will be.

The Coast Guard is "approaching a tipping point" when it comes to maintaining a service that can respond in times of need, the service's top officer said Thursday, requesting more money from Congress and highlighting a backlog of projects that has stacked up for years.

Five extended family members who lived at a ramshackle New Mexico compound where a 3-year-old boy was found dead last year are due in federal court Thursday to face new charges that they plotted attacks on U.S. law enforcement and members of the military.

The Defense Department's list of projects that could be cut to fund President Donald Trump's wall at the southern border includes more than $200 million of projects that are aimed at making Portsmouth Naval Shipyard more efficient in refueling and overhauling nuclear-powered submarines.

By storing passwords in readable plain text, Facebook violated fundamental computer-security practices.

Federal toxicologists in a draft study last year cited PFAS compounds' links to cancer and other health problems. The Defense Department has identified 24 U.S. military drinking water systems around the world with PFAS levels above the current advisory level.

The Trump administration's focus on the southern border has closed some gaps in immigration enforcement but expanded a challenging problem, law enforcement officials in San Diego said Wednesday: undocumented immigrants sneaking into California by sea.

Ethan Knez, who is stationed at Naval Station Great Lakes, was arrested at the base on Tuesday on a charge of sexual exploitation of a minor.

The people spoke on condition of anonymity because Boeing and federal regulators are still discussing details of the upgrade to the Max fleet, which was grounded worldwide after a second deadly crash this month in Ethiopia.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., visited privately managed military housing near the Naval Submarine Base on Wednesday to see firsthand the health and safety issues that military families near Naval Submarine Base Groton, and across the country, have raised about their living situations.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido's top aide was taken away in the middle of the night by masked intelligence agents who broke down his door early Thursday, drawing condemnation from the United States and other countries pushing to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man accused of mailing explosive devices to more than a dozen politicians and media figures who have been critical of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court.

A Florida House committee voted Thursday for a broad school safety bill that would expand an existing guardian program to allow classroom teachers to volunteer to carry weapons on campus if local school boards approve.

An investigation of a Florida school shooting that left 17 dead last year is expanding to include the school's principal.

The letter follows media reports of DOD officials lobbying the White House to adopt substantially less protective guidelines for groundwater pollution caused by PFAS chemicals than those suggested by the EPA.

The Department of Defense is establishing a Space Development Agency that would oversee the military's space research, development and acquisition efforts. It would eventually fold into the so-called Space Force — a new, separate branch of the armed forces.

Former Marine Bradley Darlington was previously dishonorably discharged from the Marine Corps and sentenced to 11 years in prison, with all but five suspended, after pleading guilty to the seven charges, which included domestic violence.

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Retired Sgt. Daniel Cowart’s Distinguished Service Cross is one of a dozen Silver Star medals announced recently made eligible for an upgrade by the Army through a review process of post-9/11 valor awards that began in 2016.

A study from Oxford University in 2017 found Russian operatives used Twitter and Facebook to disseminate “junk news” to veterans and servicemembers.

At an Ohio tank factory, President Donald Trump enumerated a list of grievances against the late senator, who died in August, including that he had wrongly supported the war in Iraq and “badly” hurt the Republican party and the nation by voting against repealing Obamacare.

An equine team consisting of four registered quarter horses and six patrolmen helps protect the nearly 99,600 acres that make up Vandenberg Air Force Base, the third-largest Air Force base in the U.S.

The suicide took place 15 days after a patient opened fire in the emergency room at the VA Medical Center in Riviera Beach, Fla., injuring two people. The medical center has not said what safeguards, if any, it would add as a result of that incident.

U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said he would have sentenced Richard Laugel to 20 years in prison if not for his military heroism, which included two stints in Iraq.

Flood waters are expected to continue to recede through the week. Base officials plan to have environmental crews along with engineers and the fire department determine building safety and survey damage.

A Sanford woman faces an additional offense in a fatal wreck that killed a Fort Bragg soldier March 10, Fayetteville police said.

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The Coast Guard has come to the rescue of a man who was found unconscious aboard a cruise ship off the southern New Jersey coast.

An Army combat veteran from upstate New York has been found guilty of a double homicide in which he shot and killed his wife and a state trooper.

The investigation will determine whether acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan has promoted Boeing, where he worked for more than 30 years before arriving at the Pentagon in 2017, or disparaged the massive aerospace firm’s competitors

After an escalation of bitter words from President Donald Trump this week, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., is ready to deliver what he calls a whipping on the Senate floor Wednesday.

Earlier this month, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announced earlier this month that she was resigning to become the next president at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Across the United States, members of the Mutual Unidentified Flying Objects Network — who count NASA employees and scientists among their ranks — gather every month to discuss UFO theories and the possibility of life outside of Earth.

Starting in April, 110 California National Guard troops will devote their time to fire protection, and will receive 11 days of training in using shovels, rakes and chain saws to help thin trees and brush.

The fire, which started Sunday , sent a huge, dark plume of smoke thousands of feet into the air before being extinguished at 3 a.m. Wednesday. The tanks that caught fire contained components of gasoline and materials used in nail polish remover, glues and paint thinner.

On Tuesday, the Pease Greeters and Service Credit Union hosted a ribbon-cutting for the newly refurbished Malinda’s Room in the airport terminal, a center where troops traveling to or from Portsmouth, N.H., can call anywhere in the world for free.

The tank factory the president will visit in Lima, Ohio, nearly closed six years ago; Army officials told Congress that they didn’t need any more of the heavy M-1 Abrams tanks it produces because they are less geared toward modern wars against insurgents.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he believes special counsel Robert Mueller's report should be released to the public. "Let's see whether or not it's legit."

Contamination seeping from the Camp Grayling National Guard base is polluting local lakes and groundwater. Across Michigan, municipalities are now either budgeting for PFAS response where chemicals are found in drinking water or wastewater, or are casting a worried eye as the number of contaminated sites continues to climb.

Sr. Airman Shawn Mckeough Jr., who was stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base, was fatally shot Friday, March 15, 2019, while attempting to stop an armed robbery at a gas station.

Oil maliciously dumped on the World War II memorial in South Boston brought tears to John Leoncello’s eyes as the memories of all his buddies who died in front of him during the Battle of the Bulge came flooding back.

Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis first joined the Hoover Institution as an Annenberg Distinguished Fellow in 2013, following his retirement from the U.S. Marine Corps.

Matthew Hayden, 44, died when the Cessna 421B multi-engine plane he was flying crashed. During his time in the Air Force, he had more than 2,500 flight hours in 30 types of aircraft, and he was an experimental test pilot in the F-16 and F-35.

The dispute hinges on whether the February 2018 ban crafted by former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, which allows some transgender troops to serve “in their biological sex,” was technically different from Donald Trump’s promised ban.

The remains of Sgt. Holli R. Bolinski and Spc. Jackson Johnson, who both died in a vehicle crash in Kuwait on March 5, returned home Monday.

The FAA has been under interim leadership since January 2018, following the departure of Michael Huerta, whose five-year term had expired.

Howe Military Academy in LaGrange County, Indiana announced Monday that it will not reopen for the 2019-2020 school year.

The Hawaii congresswoman told a diverse crowd of less than 100 people in Las Vegas on Monday afternoon that she wants to end what she called "wasteful regime change wars" that are costing the U.S. trillions of dollars.

After decades of tense relations, Argentina and Britain have experienced a thaw, including a deal that allowed a multinational team of experts to exhume and identify the remains of dozens of Argentine soldiers. Today, veterans and relatives of those who died also say the recovery of objects taken as war trophies has helped heal their scars.

Facebook says none of the 200 or so people who watched live video of the New Zealand mosque shooting flagged it to moderators, underlining the challenge tech companies face in policing violent or disturbing content in real time.

The most surprising thing people may learn about Myspace this week is that it still exists. But the old social network's accidental purge of 12 years' worth of its users' music uploads — that's an estimated 50 million songs — is probably a close second.

Richard Schunke, a petty officer and gunner’s mate stationed on missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf, has pleaded guilty to to felony cruelty to animals and might not face any jail time if he completes counseling.

The flooding is expected to continue throughout the week in several states as high water flows down the Missouri River. Swollen rivers have already breached more than a dozen levees in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Trump administration’s power to arrest and hold legal immigrants indefinitely if they had past crimes on their records that could trigger deportation, even if they served their time years ago or were convicted of minor drug offenses.

The 3-year-old son of Airman 1st Class Darrelly Franken, who was recently assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, was killed by Franken's husband during a botched murder-suicide attempt.

A child development center at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, a middle school at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, and an addition to the ambulatory care center at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina are some of the hundreds of military construction projects at risk of losing funds to help build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

The Justice Department discovered PRG Real Estate Management had evicted tenants from 2006 to 2017 without disclosing to state courts that they were active-duty servicemembers, a violation of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.

The primary goal of the proposal is to curb the growth of college tuition rates and to reduce the nation’s student debt load, which has reached nearly $1.5 trillion and has more than tripled since 2003.

The 30th annual Bataan Memorial Death March drew its largest field of participants yet on Sunday, with 8,631 registered to run or march through the desert surrounding White Sands Missile Range.

Ron Rockwell Hansen was given hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Chinese intelligence agents for the information, including from industry conferences, that he provided.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen connected Friday’s New Zealand mosque attacks with acts of racist violence in the U.S., calling the perpetrators “domestic terrorists” and saying they’re an increasing concern for her agency.

William C. Smith Jr.is scheduled to spend eight months in Afghanistan as a judge advocate general as part of Operation Resolute Support. His deployment during the legislative session is believed to be rare.

Greg Longenecker’s family said state police had no business chasing him with a dangerous piece of machinery — especially over a few pot plants the 51-year-old was cultivating for personal use.

The cruel, unanswerable question of how art should respond to war is at the heart of "Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975," a must-see show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It's an exhibition of miscellaneous work made by a diverse group of artists during the peak years of a war that changed everything - including art.