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V-22 Osprey at risk of more ‘catastrophic’ mishaps, Navy review finds
Following major mishaps, the military’s first tiltrotor aircraft program must take “immediate and decisive action” to avoid more loss, a review found.
US pulls missile defenses in Saudi Arabia amid Yemen attacks
The U.S. has removed its most advanced missile defense system and Patriot batteries from Saudi Arabia.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Study criticizes post-9/11 reliance on war-zone contractors
Up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9/11 went to for-profit defense contractors, a new study found.
Petty officer’s conviction for filing a false sexual assault report is upheld
The sailor, convicted in March 2020, was sentenced to seven months’ confinement, a reduction in rank to E-1 and a bad-conduct discharge.
Marine veteran and former US Sen. Adlai Stevenson III, 90, dead from dementia
He served with the Marine Corps in Korea and was discharged as a captain from the Marine Reserves in 1961.
US troops, veterans thrived at 2020 Tokyo Paralympics
Of the 240 Team USA Paralympians, 19 are former or current U.S. Armed Forces service members, winning eight medals.
US-built databases a potential tool of Taliban repression
Built with few data-protection safeguards, it risks becoming the high-tech jackboots of a surveillance state.
Marine veteran in body armor kills four in Florida, including infant, sheriff says
Bryan Riley is a Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
By Kelli Kennedy
Frontline Photos: Sept. 5, 2021
U.S. troops help Afghans, Haitians and Louisianans, and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
How a World War I jazz-playing Marine gave us the best weapon name ever
A strange instrument became the namesake for a devastating weapon.
By Todd South