WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers passed the massive annual defense spending bill Thursday, approving the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a vote of 310-118 to be signed into law by President Joe Biden. The bill setting policy and spending priorities for the Department of Defense for 2024 is $28 billion larger than last year’s […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — The United States, South Korea, and Japan held their first ever combined aerial exercise Sunday in an effort to send a tough message to North Korea. It’s not new for the United States to hold aerial drills with Japan or with South Korea. But the three countries had never held such an […]
Headquarters, 11th Airborne Division, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson – Two soldiers were killed and 12 injured in a single military vehicle accident Monday, October 2, 2023, in the Yukon Training Area near Salcha, Alaska. Seventeen soldiers were riding in the LMTV transport vehicle when the accident occurred. First responders reached the scene and extracted the personnel […]
WHITE HOUSE — Retiring U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley forcefully defended American democracy and the Constitution on Friday, as he handed the reins of the military’s top post to his successor, General Charles Q. Brown Jr. “We don’t take an oath to a tribe. We don’t take an oath to a religion. […]