Air Force Missile Base Personnel Have Elevated Breast, Prostate Cancer Rates, Initial Study Results Indicate The early results, shared by the service and reported for the first time here, indicate elevated rates of breast and prostate...
The US Military Almost Deployed Nuclear Missile Trains on American Railroads During the Cold War The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States...
North Korea's Kim Threatens 'More Offensive Actions' Against US After Watching Powerful Missile Test North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has vowed “more offensive actions” to repel what he called United States-led threats...
North Korea Conducts First Long-Range Missile Test in Months, Likely Firing a Solid-Fueled Weapon North Korea on Monday conducted its first intercontinental ballistic missile test in five months, likely launching a...
Air Force 'Safely Terminated' a Nuclear-Capable Missile After Failed Test over Pacific Ocean A test launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base went awry "due to an anomaly." The cause of what went wrong with the nuclear...
North Korea Fires Its First ICBM in 3 Months After Making Threat over Alleged US Spy Flights Some experts say North Korea likely launched its developmental, road-mobile Hwasong-18 ICBM, a type of solid-fuel weapon that...
Air Force Tests Long-Range, Nuclear-Capable Missile Amid Global Tensions The Air Force successfully launched a long-range, nuclear-capable missile during a scheduled test out of California on...
US Pulls Missile Defenses in Saudi Arabia Amid Yemen Attacks A high-resolution satellite picture taken Friday showed the batteries' pads at the site empty, with no visible activity.
Air Force Aborts ICBM Test After Problem on the Ground The aborted mission comes as the Pentagon faces increased scrutiny over its efforts to develop next-generation ICBMs to...
Putting Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert Would Exhaust the Force, General Says A requirement to return a portion of the Air Force bomber fleet to alert status would deteriorate and exhaust the force, a...
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...