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The Pentagon is scrambling to fill a growing chasm in the recruitment ranks that next year will result in America's military being the smallest it has been since before the start of World War II.
Mexico launched its army-run airline Tuesday, when the first Mexicana airlines flight took off from Mexico City bound for the Caribbean resort of Tulum.
Police who declined to confront an Army reservist in the weeks before he killed 18 people in the state's deadliest mass shooting feared that doing so would "throw a stick of dynamite on a pool of gas," according to video released Friday by law enforcement.
Singers RM and V of the K-pop band BTS began their mandatory military duties under South Korean law, their management agency announced Monday. This came a day before two of their bandmates, Jimin and Jung Kook, were also expected to report for duty.
Army linebacker Kalib Fortner scored on a fourth-quarter strip sack and then stuffed quarterback Tai Lavatai six inches from the goal line with 3 seconds left to help the Black Knights beat Navy 17-11 on Saturday and win the 124th meeting of the nation's oldest service academies.
The lawyer selected to be the Army's first top prosecutor of sexual assaults under an overhaul of the military justice system has been fired because of an email he sent 10 years ago appearing to belittle victims' assault allegations.
The Army, which faced harsh congressional criticism for discharging soldiers who refused to take the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine at the height of the pandemic, has quietly done an about-face.
Authorities publicly identified Robert Card as a person of interest about four hours after he shot and killed 18 people and wounded 13 others during attacks last week at a bowling alley and bar in Lewiston, Maine. But Card, who was found dead two days after his rampage, had been well-known to law enforcement for months.