Military

A sailor is dead and another is in custody following a shooting aboard the John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) Saturday, the U.S. Navy and naval investigators confirmed.

Lawrence Stingley and the soldiers who fought beside him were the only ones who knew exactly what it was like storming Omaha Beach 82 years ago.

Two men walked through livestock pens with .22-caliber rifles, killing Art Schaap's cows. One man would raise his rifle, its barrel inches from a cow's forehead. A shot would ring out, the cow would fall, and the men would move on to the next cow. There were 3,665 cows at the Highland Dairy in Clovis, New Mexico, a city in the flatlands near the Texas border. After six hours of gunfire, there were none.

In a move that disproportionately targets women and minority officers, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently blocked the promotions of at least seven Navy officers who had been selected by a board of senior Navy admirals.

Every time Tammie McConkey’s flight would touch down to visit her son in the U.S. Air Force, he would greet her with a red rose.

There’s a collection of events in and around Spokane to celebrate Memorial Day weekend.

In what appears to be a carefully calibrated show of force, the United States deployed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its accompanying strike group into Caribbean waters this week, a move that coincided with the unsealing of murder charges against former Cuban leader Raúl Castro on Wednesday and an intensifying pressure campaign by the Trump administration against Havana.

In the midst of international war, rampant political tension and last week’s midair collision between a pair of Navy jets at an air show near Boise, Spokane’s Fairchild Air Force Base trucks along with preparations for its own 2026 SkyFest event.

Dozens of students, veterans and locals gathered Wednesday at Spokane Falls Community College to hear the story of Lt. Col. Jack Daniels Holsclaw, a decorated World War II combat air pilot, Tuskegee airman and Spokane native.

WASHINGTON – On the National Mall, where monuments to America’s past rise high above the reflecting pool, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial stands in dramatic contrast, a black granite wall cut into the earth that bears the names of more than 58,000 Americans who lost their lives in Vietnam between 1959 and 1975.

Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving the Trump administration “effective immediately,” officials said Wednesday evening, an abrupt exit after 13 tumultuous months at the Pentagon.

A small convoy of Army Reserve troops had to engage in maneuvers they didn't expect Wednesday when a large transport vehicle left Interstate 90 and rolled onto its top in Spokane Valley.

The military will no longer require U.S. troops to receive the annual flu vaccine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday, rolling back what he described as an “overly broad” mandate that had been in place for seven decades.

Sailors who have been aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford over the last nine months are mere days away from breaking the record for the longest deployment in the United States' post-Cold War era.

Rusty Nelson was a 23-year-old in Vietnam when he witnessed something that forever changed his view of war.

Eligible men will be automatically registered into the U.S. military draft pool by December in an effort to streamline the existing self-registration process, according to the agency that oversees the system.

Idaho airmen are being sent to the Middle East to support military activity in Iran. The 124th Fighter Wing of the Idaho Air National Guard has deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Epic Fury, according to Lt. Col. Chris Borders, Idaho National Guard spokesperson. 

As President Donald Trump has given Iran an "ultimatum," threatening to dismantle the country if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened, some people are are checking pizza delivery patterns in the Washington DC area.

Twelve Fairchild Air Force Base airmen last week received one of the country’s most prestigious medals for heroism, joining the likes of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh and former President George H.W. Bush.