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...
Army Unveils Occupational Fields that Need More Soldiers – and Bonuses to Get Them Filled Referred to as "precision retention," the program highlights overcrowded occupational specialties, such as cavalry scouts and...
Air Force Colonel Heading Maintenance Group at New Mexico Base Is Relieved of Command Col. Danzel Albertsen, commander of the 49th Maintenance Group at Holloman Air Force Base, was removed from his leadership...
The Mental Burden of Using Military Benefits For those who have to line up specialty or mental health care, the back and forth can become a full-time job. But is the...
The Standoff at Gate 36: Texas Sends in the Troops to Block Migrants from Seeking Asylum Immigration enforcement has long been the domain of the federal government. But Texas is challenging that at a time when...
1,100 Army Corps of Engineers Personnel to Help Clear Debris in Baltimore Bridge Collapse The Army Corps of Engineers is set to review the damage and remove and manage debris from the river, with the eventual goal...