Navy Gives Drinking Water Quality Oversight for all US Bases to One Command After Red Hill Spill in Hawaii The new policy and oversight structure follows a massive fuel spill in 2021 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, that...
Contamination Around Fort Story Base Is Under Control, Navy’s 5-Year Review Says Long-term management requirements were put in place by the Navy and the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 to monitor...
What Is Tower 22, the Military Base that Was Attacked in Jordan Where 3 US Troops Were Killed? A little-discussed U.S. military desert outpost in the far reaches of northeastern Jordan has become the focus of...
Defense Department to Again Target 'Forever Chemicals' Contamination near Michigan Military Base Environmentalists say the systems will help prevent PFAS from spreading into the Clarks Marsh area and the Au Sable River...
A North Dakota National Guard Airman Was Shot and Killed in His Home on Christmas Eve Master Sgt. Nicholas Van Pelt, 41, of the 219th Security Forces Squadron, died during a shooting at his apartment in Minot...
Marine Veteran Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine Detained at Former Duty Station, Transferred to Japanese Authorities A former Marine lance corporal who refused the COVID-19 vaccine and was kicked out of the service returned to her former...
Inside the Pentagon's Painfully Slow Effort to Clean Up Decades of PFAS Contamination Oscoda, Michigan, has the distinction as the first community where “forever chemicals” were found seeping from a military...
'Forever Chemicals' in Thousands of Private Wells Near Military Sites, Study Finds Water tests show nearly 3,000 private wells located near 63 active and former U.S. military bases are contaminated with...
Military Barracks Are Falling Apart. Senators in Big Military States Want to Know the Price Tag to Fix Them. A bipartisan group of senators representing states with significant military footprints is pressing the Pentagon for an...
Closing a Chapter of History, Last Army Base Ditches Confederate Namesake Following Years-Long Effort The Army on Friday redesignated the last of nine installations that had been named after Civil War-era Confederates...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
'It's OK Not to Be OK': Special Operations Wing Orders Stand-Down After Roger Fortson's Police Killing The Air Force special operations wing in Florida where Senior Airman Roger Fortson served before he was shot and killed by...
VA Says It Can't Change New Urn, Plaque Benefit that Precludes Future Burials in National Veteran Cemeteries Both the National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs and the National Funeral Directors Association lodged...
'Unspeakably Cruel': Army Ranger Sentenced for Murdering Security Guard in Washington State A U.S. Army Ranger formerly stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for beating a...