Off-duty motorcycle crashes accounted for the largest number of fatalities, and the Navy reported its highest annual count of aviation mishaps in the past decade.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll promised soldiers improvements are coming, especially once a Defense Department-wide study of barracks problems is completed next month.

The Pentagon is shifting from height and weight tables and replacing them with a waist-to-height ratio methodology. The new body-fat standards are between 18% and 26% for men and between 26% and 36% for women.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House are hoping to stymie President Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland with a new bill that prohibits the use of federal funds for the invasion of NATO allies and territories.

In fiery remarks at Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter aircraft plant in Fort Worth, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke of prioritizing defense spending, saying it was imperative to rebuild the “arsenal of freedom” by getting advanced weapon systems into the hands of the military.

Labeling the extraction of Nicolás Maduro as a “law-enforcement” operation has sparked a debate over whether the designation could put service members across the globe at risk of not being treated as prisoners of war if captured.

Soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade deactivated its 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, and replaced it with the reactivated 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, during a ceremony at Tower Barracks.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed setting military spending at $1.5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.”

The Air Force wants to keep the B-52 because it can carry over 70,000 pounds of weaponry more than 8,600 miles without refueling.

More than 15,000 U.S. personnel were deployed in the region during the capture of Nicolás Maduro. But one analyst said at least 50,000 troops would be needed for the U.S. to force its way onto land and occupy key sites.