The soldiers were the first group of some 3,000 paratroopers with the 82nd’s 1st Brigade Combat Team rushed to Kuwait during the first week of January to bolster security for U.S. troops in the region after an American airstrike killed Iran’s most powerful general.

The Navy said Thursday the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group started its deployment in the Atlantic Ocean immediately after completing an exercise that began in January. The certification exercise usually lasts about a month and amounts to a final exam proving everyone is ready for various real-world combat scenarios.

Nancy Turner’s modern version of keeping a candle in the window while her soldier son is away is a string of electric lights on the front porch that burn red, white and blue. Her homeowners association, however, decided it was a covenant violation.

Thomas “Hunt” Hawkins drank half-a-bottle of “the good kind” of whiskey, jumped behind the wheel of his Chevrolet pickup truck and sped his way to the VA hospital, killing 65-year-old Eugene Rankin Jr. along the way.

Army astronaut Col. Andrew Morgan, who is aboard the International Space Station orbiting some 250 miles above Earth, is slated to swear in recruits on Feb. 26.

To conserve steel during World War I, Mobile, Alabama, shipbuilders turned to an unlikely building material: concrete. On June 28, 1919, the first concrete-hulled ship built in Mobile, the USS Selma, was launched and prepared to aid Allied forces.

Graduates from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado are expected to cross-commission into the Space Force this spring, military officials said.

Guion "Guy" Bluford's history-making space shuttle flight was just one in a long list of accomplishments that includes the 144 combat missions he flew over South Vietnam as an Air Force pilot during the Vietnam War.

After netting to trap pollutants and debris is erected on the piles surrounding the vessel, the complicated process to remove the capsized Golden Ray will begin.

Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison, following an extraordinary move by Attorney General William Barr to back off his Justice Department's original sentencing recommendation.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper used his first-ever visit to a nuclear missile field in frigid North Dakota to tout the Trump administration's multibillion-dollar plan for a top-to-bottom modernization of the nuclear arsenal. The costly project is necessary, he said, to keep up with Russia and outpace China.

Five other people from the ship have shown symptoms of the virus and have also been taken to hospitals, said Scott Pauley, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman.

The Trump administration on Thursday sanctioned Iranian elections officials who disqualified thousands of moderate candidates from running in Friday’s parliamentary vote, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo toured a Saudi air base where 2,500 U.S. troops are stationed to deter Tehran.

The “D Series Winter Challenge” is held every year during the depths of winter. The winter training includes marksmanship, physical fitness challenges, mental toughness, winter survival skills and a 5- to 6-mile march through the woods on Fort Drum.

The Navy parachute team will join the U.S. Navy Blue Angels as part of the 46th annual show, a Dayton summer tradition, June 27-28 at Dayton International Airport.

It has been more than four years since journalist Alison Parker, doing a live television interview in southern Virginia, was killed when a former colleague walked up and shot her and videographer Adam Ward. Despite repeated requests from her father and others, videos of the slaying remain on YouTube.

The National Guard Association of the United States is taking up President Donald Trump on his 2016 campaign pledge to give the Guard "a direct line to the Oval Office."

"Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier," scheduled to air Monday on the Smithsonian Channel, examines the race to get black astronauts into the heavens while fighting for human rights on earth. It shows how the astronauts surmounted racial barriers and hostile commanders to get close to the stars.

Six Democratic presidential hopefuls met on the debate stage in Las Vegas, but it was the newcomer, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who received the most attention, and none of it positive. Here are some key takeaways from the debate.

Military veteran Michael Spivey and his wife Kris met online through eHarmony. But their story is anything but typical. As their relationship grew, Kris learned how to best support him. Michael has post-traumatic stress disorder, a traumatic brain injury and a partially amputated arm from an explosion in Afghanistan years earlier.

Madison, Wisconsin, remains the top candidate to host a squadron of F-35 fighter jets despite the Air Force’s findings that there would be greater environmental impacts there than in three of its alternative sites.

The 57 Americans who were held in quarantine at a Nebraska National Guard camp left the location Thursday with all in good health.

From sitting in an Apache helicopter to seeing where they're built to performing virtual-reality training, several ROTC Air Force students at Sandalwood High School took part in the Big Brothers Big Big Sisters Beyond School Walls program Thursday at Logistic Services International.

The Stark County Veterans Service Commission is hosting a Vietnam War Veterans Day ceremony, honoring those who served in the armed forces during the nearly 20-year conflict.

The new U.S. Space Force could see procurement reach $4.7 billion in fiscal 2025 as it expands steadily from the $2.4 billion requested for acquisitions in the coming year, according to projections by the White House budget office.

For 77 years, Fort Ord near Monterey was a sprawling Army base thick with artillery pieces, wooden barracks and infantrymen taking target practice with rifles and machine guns. More than 2 million men and women served there between 1917 and 1994.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper listed space, nuclear programs, hypersonic missiles and “a variety of systems” as places Stars and Stripes' funding — slightly more than $15.5 million — could be reinvested in the $705.4 billion Defense Department spending proposal.

Actor Bill Britten, known for playing Bozo the Clown and Johnny Jellybean several decades ago, died earlier this month, according to an online obituary.

Donald Stratton, a sailor severely burned while aboard the doomed USS Arizona during the Japanese surprise attack Dec. 7, 1941, died Saturday at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was 97.

Thousands of military family members and retirees will soon receive medical care at off-base facilities as the Defense Department implements a new plan to use some of its health care centers to serve troops exclusively.

Top National Guard leaders want the Pentagon to create a Space Force National Guard, which they said Wednesday was needed to ensure continuity between Guard space operators and their active-duty counterparts who will soon join the new military branch.

Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Pitman Sr., who risked his life and military career to help New Orleans police halt the Howard Johnson’s hotel sniper attack that claimed seven lives in 1973, died Feb. 13 following a lengthy battle with cancer.

A Marine veteran recalls the nightmare combat that earned him the Medal of Honor.

The Wall That Heals, a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, honors more than 3 million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed forces in the Vietnam War and it bears the names of the 58,276 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Navy to begin releasing unclassified documents in relation to the USS Thresher, the nuclear submarine that imploded 57 years ago, taking the lives of 129, and forever changing submarine safety.

A rocket booster that SpaceX hoped would make its 50th successful landing after launch on Monday missed the autonomous ship in the Atlantic Ocean where it was supposed to come down, the company said during an internet broadcast.

The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2021 budget request would strip Stars and Stripes of all its federal funding, more than $15 million annually, a Defense Department official said Wednesday, as lawmakers and others defended the editorially independent news organization.

Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning is petitioning a Virginia federal judge to let her out of jail, saying Wednesday that she will never testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.

The nation's top military officer paid tribute Wednesday to thousands of U.S. Marines and Navy corpsmen who took part in what he called "the bloodiest campaign in American history, per square mile," the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.

The president proposed $109.5 billion in discretionary funding for the VA, including $90 billion for medical care. Additionally, the VA has about $134 billion in mandatory funding to be spent on veterans’ benefits.

It’s a nice gesture to send friends or loved ones deployed overseas care packages full of energy drinks, tobacco or snacks. Now you can add to the list personalized sexy videos from adult film stars — and it’s free of charge.

Stars and Stripes has been a critical, and often the only, means for troops on the front lines to keep up with the news back home. Even in the digital age, thousands of troops fighting in war zones rely on Stars and Stripes for news when internet access is either prohibited or nonexistent.

Pfc. Walter Lewark, 26, of Mountainair, N.M., died Thursday at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, the Defense Department announced in a statement Friday. He was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 200th Infantry Regiment, 93rd Troop Command out of Rio Rancho, N.M.

The Navy needs to find at least $40 billion in savings by 2026 in order to fund more ships to keep up with the demand on their fleet, the service’s acting secretary said.

Seven of the country’s largest veterans organizations have asked the President to add bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, hypertension and Parkinson’s-like symptoms to the list of conditions presumed to be caused by chemical herbicides used in the Vietnam War.

When Maj. Gen. Clement S. Coward was growing up at what was then Pope Air Force Base, he developed a desire to serve in the military, but becoming a two-star general in the Army wasn't on his mind. "It's beyond my wildest dreams," he said.

Both chambers of Congress are proposing ambitious bipartisan changes to the GI Bill aimed to bridge the pay and benefits gap between active-duty troops and National Guard members.

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy John Rood said in a letter to President Donald Trump that his last day would be Feb. 28. Rood wrote that he understood, from speaking to Defense Secretary Mark Esper, that Trump had requested his resignation.

Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, senior enlisted leader of the Air Force’s Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., has been named the first top enlisted leader of the Space Force.

Nearly 50 current and former residents of a shuttered Navy base have filed a lawsuit seeking $2 billion in damages, alleging officials from the Navy, the state of California and the city of San Francisco lied about the levels of radiation and toxic contamination left behind after decades of military activity.

Chuck Yeager was the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. On Thursday, the history-making Air Force veteran turned 97.

It is unclear whether Trump intends to nominate Grenell to fill the top intelligence post on a permanent basis, which would require Senate confirmation. The appointment took many in Washington, including on Capitol Hill, by surprise.

Virginia is the current epicenter of the country's heated debate over gun control and mass shootings.

An advocacy group in Washington state has asked a federal judge to require the Navy to reduce the number of Growler aircraft flights at a military airport until a lawsuit is settled over the number of practice flights.

Pentagon officials first informed Stars and Stripes’ leadership of the proposed budget cuts to the news organization Monday morning, after The Wall Street Journal published a story identifying the planned funding reduction.

Nearly 80 years after he was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma, the remains of Detroit native and Navy Seaman 1st Class Edward Wasielewski, have been identified.

A Navy investigation determined patches featuring a twist on President Donald Trump’s “Make Aircrew Great Again” campaign slogan worn by Guam-based sailors violated a Department of Defense order banning troops from participating in political events in uniform.

The family of a Marine Corps veteran who died by suicide last fall wants soldiers to go through a reintegration program when they leave the service, the way they go to boot camp when they join military.

It is longstanding tradition for Navy ships to visit Mobile during Mardi Gras, with uniformed sailors joining the civilian crowds at parades and other festivities.

Heath Robinson, who once was a fit and driven soldier — he was twice named Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year by the Ohio Army National Guard for his physical prowess — has been devastated by stage 4 lung cancer.

Six weeks after Army veteran Corey Michael Hadley took his own life, his mother, still grieving his loss, says she believes the traumatic brain injury he suffered after multiple deployments as a sharpshooter was the factor that finally cost him his life.

A 20-year sentence and lifetime supervision will deter Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr. and others like him from from the "clarion call" of the Islamic State, federal prosecutors wrote in a memorandum seeking the maximum penalty for a man who pleaded guilty to aiding terrorists.

As the city of Hanau, Germany, prepares to honor the memory of Staff Sgt. Joseph Eugene Prokop and two other Army Air Forces members, details have emerged that are rewriting his story, adding a new layer of tragedy.

The Office of Naval Inspector General has cleared former Naval War College president Rear Adm. Jeffrey A. Harley of most of the allegations of misconduct claimed to have occurred after he took command of the 136-year-old school in July 2016, The Providence Journal has learned.

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will waive federal contracting laws to speed construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Electric Boat is furloughing about 300 trades employees, half of whom work in Connecticut, as the company experiences a dip in submarine production.

Planning for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II has taken a major step forward with authorization for the military to transport up to 24 World War II-era aircraft and their pilots to and from Pearl Harbor for the commemoration.

Army Staff Sgt. Leroy Everett, who was with the 101st Airborne Division in South Vietnam's Binh Duong Province, was on a training run On Dec. 19, 1967, when he and nine other men were killed when their helicopter's engine failed.

Fourteen American cruise ship passengers who tested positive for coronavirus are being quarantined at military bases in California and Texas.

Food, teddy bears and live performances were just some of the community-strengthening amenities available to the families of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, during a family day event at Fort Bragg organized by Operation Gratitude.

On Sunday, Ken Potts and shipmate Lou Conter somberly talked by phone about the latest USS Arizona crewman to pass away. With the death of Don Stratton on Saturday, the 98-year-olds became the only two remaining survivors of the ship that was lost in the December, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

South American military dictatorships combined forces in the late 1970s on a continent-wide crackdown they called Operation Condor against perceived threats to their rule. To coordinate this brutal campaign, Argentina, Chile and other countries established a secret communications network using encryption machines from a Swiss company called Crypto AG. Crypto secretly was owned by the CIA.

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Friday that the service was not pursuing punishment for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council staffer who testified during the impeachment case against President Donald Trump.

After two weeks pent up at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the first group of coronavirus evacuees to arrive in San Diego finally got to leave Tuesday.

Some of the Army’s best-skilled soldiers will gather at Fort Benning in mid-April for a quartet of challenging annual competitions during the Georgia post’s Infantry Week meant to determine the service’s best Rangers, mortarmen, snipers and fighters.

A Justice Department statement issued Tuesday on the arrest of Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes did not indicate why a member of the Russian government sought such information. The U.S. government source, who might be better described as an informant, was not identified.

An experienced skydiver was killed Monday morning after he attempted to avoid another jumper during a landing in Florida, police said.

The U.S. designated five Chinese media companies as “foreign missions,” a decision that reflects the Trump administration’s view that the communist party of Xi Jinping is imposing increasingly draconian government-control over news services, senior State Department officials said.

Former government contractor Reality Winner, who is serving time in federal prison for leaking a classified document to a news organization, is making an appeal for early release to President Donald Trump, who once tweeted that he considered her crime to be “small potatoes.”

Tucked away in rural southeastern Colorado, the Sand Creek Massacre site seeks to honor the 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho tribe members slaughtered by the U.S. Army in one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history.

The two clinics in Billings were named after Benjamin Steele and Joseph Medicine Crow during a Tuesday ceremony.