Military

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.

U.S. federal law enforcement personnel will be present at an upcoming Marine Corps graduation, according to a message on the corps' Parris Island website, a move ​the South Carolina base has described as the first of its kind in recent memory.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals, a highly unusual move that has prompted some senior military officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their race or gender.

The U.S. military has fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles in four weeks of war with Iran, burning through the precision weapons at a rate that has alarmed some Pentagon officials and prompted internal discussions about how to make more available, said people familiar with the matter.

On a hazy afternoon in the Persian Gulf nearly 40 years ago, the captain of a U.S. Navy frigate summoned Lt. Gordan Van Hook to the bridge and handed him a pair of binoculars.

WASHINGTON – Senior military officials are weighing a possible deployment of a combat brigade from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and some elements of the division's headquarters staff to support U.S. military operations in Iran, defense officials said.

Geb Galle was in his U.S. Navy dress whites getting ready for church when he looked out a porthole of the USS Nevada and saw planes coming toward Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor.

The U.S. military is deploying thousands of Marines to the Middle East, officials told Reuters on Friday, as President Donald Trump accused NATO allies of cowardice over their reluctance to send forces to help open the Strait of Hormuz.

WASHINGTON – Three of the six U.S. service members aboard a KC-135 Stratotanker that crashed during a refueling mission in Iraq were from Ohio, the state’s governor said on social media Friday.