The Pentagon stated that 71% of the millions of 17-to-24-year-olds in the U.S. would not qualify for military service. “The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly,” said Major General Allen Batschelet, U.S. Army Recruiting Command’s commanding…
President Barack Obama today announced plans to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help the government in Baghdad combat a rapid advance by Sunni-led insurgents who have taken over towns and cities and routed Iraqi troops in…
Top photos of the U.S. Military for the week April 20-26, 2014. (Click photos to enlarge.) Image Gallery ABOVE: A member of the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron assists in the removal of temporary landing gear on a U-2 spy…
PHOTO: A Soldier with the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team trains in Germany in 2012. A company-sized element of the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team — about 150 soldiers — will arrive in Poland tomorrow to begin…
Defense Department officials today announced a U.S. strategic force structure designed to comply with the New START Treaty. The treaty limits the total number of deployed and nondeployed strategic delivery vehicles to 800. By Feb. 5, 2018, the total deployed…
For reasons a senior defense official said included North Korean provocations, treaty commitments to Japan and U.S. national security interests, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said today that the United States will send Japan two more Aegis-equipped ballistic-missile defense ships by…
