Weldon Kenneth Bowen, a World War II veteran living at Watkins-Logan Texas State Veterans Home, will turn 100 on September 5.

President Donald Trump has given the Medal of Honor to three veterans, honoring acts of heroism in Vietnam and Afghanistan.

A military investigation has found that a “one in a million” malfunction during a live fire demonstration over Camp Pendleton last October led to a misfire that rained shrapnel on Interstate 5.

The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea.

California authorities say metal shrapnel from an exploding artillery shell hit and damaged a state highway patrol vehicle as the Marine Corps fired live rounds over a freeway during exercises observed by Vice President JD Vance.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.

The Pentagon has restored some webpages highlighting the wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans.

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that a gear crack that led to a fatal crash of a V-22 Osprey last year may have been started by weak spots in a metal used to manufacture that part.

Japan’s defense chief says Japanese and American V-22 Ospreys are being safely operated in the country.

The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep troops based there.

Defense officials say Gen. Eric Smith is taking steps to return to full duty as commandant of the Marine Corps, about four months after being sidelined due to a heart attack.

The Marine Corps says Gen. Eric Smith, the commandant, has had open heart surgery and is expected to return to full duty as the service's leader.

One U.S. Marine has died and 14 others were taken to hospitals after an amphibious combat vehicle they were in rolled over during a training at a California base.

When the U.S. military took the extraordinary step of grounding its fleet of V-22 Ospreys this week, it wasn't reacting just to the recent deadly crash of the aircraft off the coast of Japan.

Officials have recovered the flight data recorder from a U.S. Navy airplane that overshot the runway near Honolulu.

The Pentagon has sent advisers, including a Marine Corps general versed in urban warfare, to Israel to assist in its plans to conduct a ground assault in Gaza.

The U.S. Marines say men and women are now fully integrated in boot camp.

A military pilot whose advanced fighter jet went temporarily missing over the weekend is heard repeatedly requesting an ambulance in a perplexing 911 call from the South Carolina home where he had parachuted to safety.

The U.S. military has identified the Marine Corps pilot who was killed when his combat jet crashed near a San Diego base during a training flight.

An oil tanker long suspected of carrying sanctioned Iranian crude oil has begun offloading its cargo near Texas.

Three men who were found dead over the weekend at a North Carolina gas station have been identified as Marine lance corporals from Camp Lejeune.

An investigation has concluded that the deadly crash of a Marine V-22 Osprey in California last year was caused by mechanical failure.

President Joe Biden says it is “irresponsible” of an Alabama senator to block confirmation of military officers in protest of a Defense Department policy that pays for travel when a service member has to go out of state to get an abortion or reproductive care.

The U.S. Marine Corps is without a confirmed leader for the first time in a century as Gen. David Berger stepped down as commandant and a Republican senator is blocking confirmation of his successor.

Jill Biden hopes a temporary art exhibit at the White House helps educate visitors about the lives of military children.

Authorities say the DNA of the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students was found on a knife sheath recovered at the crime scene.

As the United States and Japan further strengthen their military alliance, they’ve turned to farmers markets to foster friendlier ties between American military bases and their Japanese neighbors.

The U.S. Marine Corps has halted water operations for its new amphibious combat vehicles while it investigates why two of the seafaring tanks ran into trouble off Southern California's coast this week amid high surf.

Trevor Reed, the former Marine released in a prisoner exchange Wednesday after nearly three years in a Russian jail, has arrived back in the United States.

The parents of a Marine veteran imprisoned in Russia have met at the White House with President Joe Biden and senior staffers.

The bodies of four Marines who died in a military aircraft crash during a NATO exercise have been transferred back to the U.S. The U.S. Marine Corps said an Osprey aircraft crashed on March 18 in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle, killing the four Marines.

Authorities say that four U.S. Marines have been killed when their Osprey aircraft crashed in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war.

Norwegian authorities are searching for a U.S. Marine Corps aircraft that went missing during a training exercise.

Marines on snowmobiles helped Santa this month while delivering toys to boys and girls in Alaska’s Arctic.

The U.S. Navy has tested a laser weapon and destroyed a floating target in the Mideast.

NASA has picked 10 new astronauts, half of them military pilots, as it looks ahead to the moon and Mars.

A U.S. Marine Corps veteran disarmed a gun-wielding juvenile who was attempting to rob an Arizona gas station on Wednesday.

California’s governor and legislative leaders are seeking $16.7 million in state money to help resettle Afghan refugees in California.

Officials say more than 30 California children are still stuck in Afghanistan after they traveled to the country to see relatives weeks before the Taliban seized power and were unable to get out before U.S. forces left.

Six families from a San Diego suburb have now made it safely out of Afghanistan after they went to the country earlier this summer to visit relatives and got stuck there amid the chaos following the Taliban’s takeover.

An Indian official says an air force transport plane has left Kabul for New Delhi carrying 168 people on board.

The scene outside the airport in the Afghan capital is still chaotic.

The Marine Corps says it's relieving a general of his duties for failing to properly train Marines and sailors and evaluate the platoon before an exercise last summer when their seafaring tank sank off the Southern California coast.

The top U.S. general says the military must do more to improve career opportunities for Black Americans.

The Marine Corps inspector general, Major General Robert Castellvi, has been suspended amid the ongoing probes into last summer’s fatal sinking of a seafaring tank off the Southern California coast.

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2020, file photo, provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Marines and sailors carry a casket inside a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, in Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. The U.S. Marine Corps is expected to release results of its investigation into a seafaring tank that sunk off San Diego's coast last summer, killing eight Marines and one sailor. “Ultimately this tragic mishap was preventable,” wrote Lt. Gen. Steven R. Rudder, commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, in his review of the investigation. It was one of the deadliest Marine training accidents in decades. After the accident, the Marine Corps adopted stricter inspections for its fleet of amphibious assault vehicles, and a majority failed to meet the standards, the report stated.

A U.S. Marine Corps commander was fired Tuesday, March 23, 2021, following an investigation into the sinking of the amphibious assault vehicle that killed nine service members last year. Navy via AP, File)SAN DIEGO – A U.S. Marine Corps commander was fired Tuesday following an investigation into the sinking of an amphibious assault vehicle in the ocean off Southern California that killed nine service members last year. Col. Christopher J. Bronzi was relieved of command of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit by Lt. Gen. Steven R. Rudder, commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, a statement said. Rudder relieved Bronzi “due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command,” the statement said. San Clemente Island, lying about 70 miles (112.6 kilometers) northwest of San Diego, is a training ground for the Marine Corps and Navy.

A U.S. Marine Corps band performs in the Entrance Hall of the White House during the 2020 Christmas preview, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Washington. The D.C. Health Department can’t do much more than track the numbers and hope its virus guidelines are being followed. But the White House and other federal properties are not required to comply with those rules. On Wednesday night, Trump hosted about 200 guests at the White House for the annual Hanukkah celebration. Bowser's government has generally avoided direct confrontations with the Trump White House over virus protocols.

In this photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Marines and sailors carry a casket inside a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, in Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. (Lance Cpl. The Marine Corps said Tuesday that six pallbearers of Marines and sailors escorted each casket aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. The caskets will be handed over to their families for final arrangements, the Marine Corps said in a press release. Bryan J. Baltierra, 18, of Corona, California; Lance Cpl.

HOUSTON The body of a boater missing since Saturday was recovered in Houston Ship Channel late Monday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Officials said Shawn Scarbroughs body was found near marker 69 Monday. The 12-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps went missing Saturday after he was thrown from an 18-foot boat without a life jacket about five miles east of Kemah Saturday evening. It was reported to officials that the vessel operators seat broke, causing him to sharply turn the wheel. Multiple agencies were involved in the search for Scarbrough including the U.S. Coast Guard, the Kemah Fire Department, Seabrook Police Department and the Chambers County Sheriffs Office.