Washington — A guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday loudly reprimanded a group of people that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for making noise at the site. Hegseth, his wife and several aides — including chief of staff Ricky Buria — visited the tomb for a Veterans…
Washington — Two women attempting to become Navy SEALs advanced further through the military’s grueling training pipeline than any women before them, making history despite ultimately failing to complete the demanding course at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in California. An enlisted sailor and a naval officer entered Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL, or BUD/S, training several weeks…
Four service members who were involved in an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash Wednesday night in Washington state are believed to be dead, the Army said Friday. The crash happened in a rural area near Joint Base Lewis-McChord at approximately 9 p.m. local time on Wednesday. The four service members were assigned to the 160th…
Berlin — The U.S. has made “major progress” on plans to establish a permanent U.S. Army base in Poland, President Trump said Thursday in a social media post. “If this goes ahead, the location will be announced very soon,” Mr. Trump said in his Truth Social post, which was shared by the White House on X….
A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter out of Fort Campbell in Kentucky made an apparently unplanned landing in a wooded area of the Colorado foothills west of Denver on Tuesday. The Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office said four people were aboard when it came down to the north of Golden Gate Canyon State Park, and that…
The U.S. Army is planning to phase out a drone battalion tasked just last year with studying and taking on board lessons on drone warfare, including from the ongoing Ukraine war, an Army official confirmed to CBS News on Thursday. Multiple current and former U.S. officials told CBS News the decision to nix the unit…
The summer of 1936 wasn’t just hot; it was dangerously hot. At least 5,000 people ended up dying from heat-related causes. “New York City, Baltimore, Columbus, Ohio, Lexington, Kentucky, Minneapolis – I mean, cities were hammered,” said Geoff Williams, the author of “The Summer of Death,” about that great heat wave. “For weeks, some cities…
A 30-year-old U.S. soldier was killed over the weekend in Iraq during what the U.S. military said was a controlled explosion to destroy an attack drone. Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was “killed in action during a controlled detonation” of the drone at Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq, the Pentagon said…
