The U.S. Air Force will begin its largest joint multinational exercise in the western Pacific to stress-test its maneuver concept for modern warfare.

The Department of the Air Force has suspended plans to use Johnston Atoll, an isolated Pacific island about 700 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii, as a test site for landing rockets as it considers alternative sites.

A veteran who died in Chicago without any recollection of their life was recently memorialized in a funeral service with military honors nearly a decade after dying. Investigators identified Reba Caroline Bailey, who served in the Women’s Army Corps in the 1960s, through postmortem fingerprints.

The newly proposed Military PFAS Transparency Act would create a public online dashboard to track clean-ups of cancer-causing chemicals by the Defense Department at hundreds of military installations across the nation and an “acceleration strategy” for higher risk sites to be monitored by lawmakers.

The military has established a fourth defense zone along the U.S. border with Mexico — designating a strip of land in Arizona where anyone crossing the border is subject to charges of trespassing on military property as well as border crossing violations.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Wednesday that the Pentagon still maintains the strikes left Iranian nuclear facilities “completely obliterated.”

The Better Outfitting Our Troops, or BOOTS, Act mandates all boots worn by troops, including optional boots that serve as alternatives to the military’s standard-issue boot, are 100% made and sourced in the United States.

The troops were among more than 4,000 Guard members and 700 active-duty Marines sent to the city by President Donald Trump as immigration-related protests in early June swelled near a federal building in the downtown area.

The Navy reversed a major recruiting slump in 2024 and even met its 2025 goals early, but a lack of documentation on how it achieved those gains could undermine future efforts, a government watchdog agency said.

The U.S. Army in Europe has established a command-and-control capability with allies that could deliver a big battlefield advantage if it’s integrated worldwide, a top U.S. commander said.