U.S. military

Memorial Day is a time to pause and reflect as a nation.

A Navy investigation triggered by a series of suicides is recommending widespread improvements in housing, food, parking and internet for sailors, as well as changes to mental health and other personnel programs.

A retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who worked alongside the Ukrainians and died in an artillery barrage in Bakhmut earlier this week told NBC News in a February interview that he felt “compelled to come help.”

The Army’s training hub in Georgia is now officially called Fort Moore. The Army completed a name change Thursday that’s been a year in the making at the base known previously as Fort Benning.

The new rule would affect eight military bases, including three that are tied to the B-21 Raider, the nation’s future stealth bomber.

The military has determined that it poses no threat to aerial traffic or national security, but it’s not clear what it is or who it belongs to, officials said.

Two military helicopters have crashed in Alaska returning from a training flight, the second accident involving U.S. Army helicopters in the state this year. A spokesperson for the U.S. Army Alaska says each helicopter carried two people but could not immediately provide any other information about the condition of those involved. The U.S. Army Alaska says first responders were at...

American and Filipino forces have launched their largest combat exercises in decades in waters across the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, where Washington has repeatedly warned China over its increasingly aggressive actions.

Two Blackhawk military helicopters crashed in Kentucky during a training exercise on Wednesday, killing all 9 servicemen aboard.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is stalling promotions for more than 150 generals and flag officers over a policy that funds travel costs for servicemembers seeking abortions.

The 42-second video shows a Russian Su-27 approaching the back of the MQ-9 drone and dumping fuel on it before striking its propeller.

Reported sexual assaults at U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students told an anonymous survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact.

Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs Gen. Mark Milley said the first missile fired at the aerial object over Lake Huron missed. The second hit the target.

Four high-altitude objects have been shot down by the U.S. military since Feb 4. Here’s a timeline of those events.

U.S. officials said an “unidentified object” has been shot down Sunday for the third time in as many days, this time over

Pentagon Spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick S. Ryder says the high-altitude object that was shot down off the coast of Alaska posed a “reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight.”

NSC Coordinator John Kirby says the U.S. shot down a “high-altitude object” flying Alaska airspace on Friday. Kirby said the object was smaller than the spy balloon shot down last week.

A massive white orb sweeping across U.S. airspace has triggered a diplomatic maelstrom and is blowing up on social media.

Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by significant increases in the Army and the Navy as bases began to move out of pandemic restrictions and public venues opened back up.

A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed Ayman al-Zawahri, the leader of Al Qaeda one of the architects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Adam Weinstein from the Quincy Institute says that strike shows the U.S., which pulled troops out of Afghanistan last year, can still take down threats without troops on the ground. “It’s still possible,” he says on...