While military life isn’t always fair, unless there’s a severe shortage of information warfare junior officers in the Navy there’s no reason Cameron Kinley shouldn’t get the same chance his athletic peers from the academies have been granted.

With seven weeks until the opening ceremony, the Japanese government, the International Olympic Committee and major stakeholders are gambling political reputations and billions of dollars on staging a games that could lift global spirits and show how we could begin a return to normality.

U.S. commands in Japan and South Korea reported 13 new cases of the coronavirus respiratory disease as of 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Airmen and other U.S. military personnel at Misawa Air Base no longer have a chance to see the Olympic torch when the relay passes through northeastern Japan.

Defensive back Cameron Kinley’s request to have his commission delayed was denied by acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas W. Harker, ending his pro football career before it could get started.

Right-handed pitcher Griffin Jax received a call-up from the Minnesota Twins on Saturday, becoming the first Air Force Academy graduate on a Major League Baseball team.

Comedian Jon Stewart will host the Defense Department’s 2021 Warrior Games in Orlando, Fla., as the annual adaptive sports competition for wounded, ill and injured service members returns after the coronavirus pandemic forced its cancelation last year.

This small act of rebellion, at a time when players had very little power, foreshadowed today’s era of activist athletes, including the player-led boycotts last year after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis.

Old Ironsides, as the warship is known, is scheduled to take about 200 health care workers and first responders on a three-hour tour in Boston Harbor this coming Friday, the Navy said in a statement.