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Leaders of nonprofits that have advocated for stronger polices to bolster diversity in the military and keep extremists out of the ranks are now concerned that President-elect Donald Trump and his pick for defense secretary will quickly work to undo those measures. Trump announced Nov. 12 he intended to nominate Army veteran and conservative commentator Pete Hegseth as his next secretary of defens...[Read More]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that elders sacrificed their own lives to spare food for surviving children. It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. ...[Read More]

Two Navy aviators who were flying an EA-18G Growler jet in Washington state when it crashed Tuesday were declared dead on Sunday, the service said in a statement.

The aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt returned home to San Diego on Tuesday following a nine-month deployment that saw its West Pacific cruise detoured to the Middle East as war threatened to break out between Israel and Iran. TR was rushed to the Middle East in July, after East Coast carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower was wrapping up its own extended deployment battling missile and drone salvos fired...[Read More]

The Air Force has expanded medical waivers to cover asthma, food allergies and hearing loss in an effort to boost recruitment, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine. The Air Force Recruiting Service’s Accessions Medical Waiver Division decided to expand tolerances after the Air Force whiffed on recruiting goals last year for the first time since 1999, division head Col. Ian Gregory told the...[Read More]

An airman recently became the first female survival, evasion, resistance, escape, or SERE, specialist to achieve the rank of chief master sergeant, the service announced. Chief Master Sgt. Tiffany Zaloudek earned the highest enlisted rank in the Air Force on Nov. 1, according to an Air Force release. Zaloudek earned her SERE beret in 2007, becoming the first woman in eight years to finish the spec...[Read More]

An airman recently became the first female survival, evasion, resistance, escape, or SERE, specialist to achieve the rank of chief master sergeant, the service announced. Chief Master Sgt. Tiffany Zaloudek earned the highest enlisted rank in the Air Force on Nov. 1, according to an Air Force release. Zaloudek earned her SERE beret in 2007, becoming the first woman in eight years to finish the spec...[Read More]

The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps have all paused Osprey operations following another parts failure, this time with the Air Force’s version of the aircraft during a training mission in New Mexico last month.

Congress is set to order the Air Force to study whether it can establish a pilot program that would allow airmen and guardians to grow beards. The proposed compromise National Defense Authorization Act, which was released on Saturday, would require the Air Force secretary to brief Congress on the feasibility and advisability of such a pilot program by April 1. The Air Force currently bars airmen a...[Read More]

The crew of the carrier George Washington has been banned from drinking alcohol on or off base under a new set of liberty restrictions implemented in the wake of the deaths of two sailors following the ship’s arrival in Japan. The updated rules, which apply to approximately 3,000 sailors assigned to the hulking ship, went into effect Nov. 26, a spokesperson for the carrier told Stars and Stripes. ...[Read More]