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Army Futures Command will reach fully operational status just before the newest gem of the Army’s modernization plan sees its first birthday on August 24th, officials announced on Tuesday. AFC Commander Gen. John “Mike” Murray told reporters at a technologies showcase on Tuesday that the command will be fully operational on July 31st before showing […]

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) has been told to stop using the Marine Corps’ emblem and the 1st Marine Division’s motto in his campaign literature, Corps officials confirmed. The Marine Corps Trademark Licensing Office has sent Hunter, a Marine veteran, a cease and desist letter telling him to quit using the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor emblem […]

Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a U.S. Army recruiter for investigation of soliciting girls as young as 10 years old for sex after he allegedly sent selfies calling himself “Colorado batman,” the sheriff’s department reported. Ken Hardcastle, 31, has been arrested for investigation of internet luring of a child and internet sexual exploitation of […]

The magazine Foreign Policy (FP) is reporting the United Kingdom, France and some Baltic and Balkan states have agreed to increase special forces elements in Syria. It comes as a major victory for the Trump administration after it decided to pull troops out of Syria. Officially, the U.K. and France do not acknowledge having any […]

An Army appeals court has rejected Bowe Bergdahl’s claim that President Trump’s public description of him as “a no-good traitor who should have been executed” and other comments on the disgraced soldier’s case constituted unlawful command influence (UCI). In a 2-1 ruling, a trio of Army Court of Criminal Appeals judges determined that while Trump’s […]

Editor’s Note: This article by Gina Harkins originally appeared onMilitary.com, a leading source of news for the military and veteran community. The Marine Corps must update its parental-leave policies to give new moms and dads time with their newborns, the service’s new top general wrote this week, including considering a full year’s worth of leave […]

The Pentagon said on Wednesday it had approved a request to send an additional 1,000 Texas National Guard and 1,100 active duty troops to the border with Mexico, the latest deployment in support of President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown. Major Chris Mitchell, a Pentagon spokesman, told Reuters that acting Defense Secretary Richard Spencer had […]

People often ask me: “What was the worst thing you ever saw on the ambulance?” I think they are expecting some gruesome story about a decapitation or something. I’ve seen dead kids, people shot in the head, chest, and legs, burns, and stab wounds to the heart. I’ve seen strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests, overdoses […]