Veterans waved American flags and speakers rallied support for the 30,000 federal workers fired by the Trump administration. Some speakers represented self-described progressive groups, but many veterans who attended said their participation had nothing to do with political affiliation.

All 10 of those fired from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine were entry-level probationary workers, though a local union leader said he expects at least six to be reinstated following a Thursday ruling from a federal judge.

Service members may need an off-base veterinarian to obtain medications for their pets and to get rabies antibody testing completed for international moves, following a freeze on federal government purchase cards that is affecting military veterinary clinics.

The Navy is offering voluntary honorable discharges to transgender sailors and Marines who self-identify by March 28 or risk being involuntarily separated, according to a memo released Thursday.

The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert Bergen, a former Navy corpsman and one of the few remaining survivors of the battle fought there 80 years ago.

“We have been given authority to relook at some of the funding and how we travel to see what might be possible for this weekend,” Jessica Tackaberry, Department of Defense Education Activity Europe spokeswoman, told Stars and Stripes on Wednesday night.

Cobra Gold, the largest multinational military exercise in mainland Asia, concluded in explosive fashion, but the real focus was a renewed emphasis on modern tactics and emerging technologies.

The Air Force is investigating how an unmanned aerial vehicle rolled off a runway while taxiing Monday at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa.

Robinson Barracks Elementary students, educators and military leaders celebrated their school’s recent designation as a National Blue Ribbon School.

Roughly 45 students at Kubasaki High School staged a walkout Monday to protest a Pentagon policy affecting diversity initiatives.