Military

Transgender service members will be removed from the military unless they are granted a waiver, according to a memo the Pentagon filed in court late Wednesday.

Fort Knox is the site of the U.S. Treasury’s Bullion Depository for American gold reserves in Kentucky.

The Pentagon says the military services must again ask troops who were forced out or who voluntarily left the military due to the COVID vaccine whether they want to reenlist.

A military aircraft has crashed into the San Diego Bay near Shelter Island, according to San Diego Fire-Rescue.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base back to Fort Bragg.

President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have both criticized a 2021 law that banned the naming of military bases after confederate generals.

Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday

West Point will disband all its cultural clubs, including those for women and minorities, according to a memo from the Corps of Cadets in response to presidential executive orders and Army guidance that NBC News obtained. Aside from disbanding all the cultural clubs, the memo — which was sent out Tuesday — also says that the clubs cannot continue informal…

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen, has died at 100 years old.

The Army has released the name of the third soldier who died Wednesday when an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet near the D.C. airport. Cpt. Rebecca M. Lobach, of Durham, N.C., served as an Army aviation officer since July 2019.

The directive eliminates a rarely used policy enacted in October 2022.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops, likely setting in motion a future ban on their military service.

DEI stands for diversity, equity and inclusion and focuses on fostering equitable environments in businesses and schools, particularly for historically marginalized communities.

In Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren questioned Trump’s Pentagon pick on why his stance on women in the military changed after the 2024 election of Donald Trump.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, was stalled three times during his opening statement by protesters who called him a “Christian zionist” and yelled about “bombing babies in Gaza.”

Pete Hegseth will try to convince members of the Senate Armed Services Committee he should be the next secretary of defense.

The highly decorated Special Forces soldier who died by suicide in a Cybertruck explosion on New Year’s Day confided to a former girlfriend — who had served as an Army nurse — that he faced significant pain and exhaustion that she says were key symptoms of traumatic brain injury.

Much remains unknown about the man who carried out an attack in New Orleans and another who died in an explosion in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day.

President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to military recipients who displayed heroism and self-sacrifice in combat during the Korean War and Vietnam War.

Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval base, has died. He was 103.