Military

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.

U.S. Central Command is reporting a KC-135 tanker aircraft has gone down over western Iraq. 

Two U.S. sailors were treated for “non-life-threatening injuries” after a fire broke out Thursday on board the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, a centerpiece of Trump administration’s war against Iran, officials said.

WASHINGTON – About 100 members of a Washington Air National Guard unit stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base have been activated to support the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, the Washington Military Department confirmed Monday.

US military forces are turning to a range of artificial intelligence tools to quickly manage enormous amounts of data for operations against Iran, according to US Central Command, highlighting the emerging technology’s growing role in warfare.

The US submarine strike on an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean marked a sharp escalation in the war between the two nations, raising fresh security and economic risks across the Indo-Pacific.

A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

Videos appear to show the moments U.S. fighter jets crashed over Kuwait on Monday local time. Three U.S. fighter jets, F-15E Strike Eagles involved in the operation against Iran, were shot down mistakenly by Kuwait’s air defenses in “an apparent friendly fire incident,” the U.S. military’s Central Command said.

Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the flight to Hiroshima.

The U.S. military is deploying a vast array of forces in the Middle East, including two aircraft carriers, fighter jets and refueling tankers, giving President Donald Trump the option for a major attack against Iran as he pressures the country to strike a deal over its nuclear program.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has forced the ouster of a senior military adviser to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, defense officials said, marking the Pentagon chief’s latest intervention into the service’s internal affairs amid long-simmering tension between two of the Trump administration’s top political appointees.

The Trump administration has withdrawn all federalized National Guard troops from U.S. cities, after its repeated attempts to surge forces into Democratic-run states encountered judicial roadblocks.

The rolling grasslands and rocky beaches of Vandenberg Space Force Base, home to more than a dozen at-risk species, easily could pass for a peaceful nature preserve — but that’s an illusion.

A U.S. aircraft carrier and several additional warships approached the Middle East on Monday, defense officials said, as President Donald Trump and his advisers weigh potential military strikes on Iran following the recent killing of thousands of Iranian civilians in protests.

As the Trump administration intervenes in Venezuela, readies troops for a possible deployment to Minnesota and threatens to seize Greenland, the Catholic archbishop for the U.S. armed forces said it “would be morally acceptable” for troops to disobey what violated their conscience.

Around 20 people gathered on the corner of Market Street and Liberty Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, waving flags sporting rainbow colors, peace signs and doves holding olive branches.

Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain and astronaut, filed a lawsuit Jan. 12 against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over threats to reduce his military pension.

Officials at Fairchild Air Force Base announced Friday that it has set the time for the annual SkyFest event that it hosts each ear at the military facility located in Airway Heights.

A former Eastern State Hospital Chaplain received a $1.8 million settlement from Washington State for lawsuits alleging discrimination and intentionally withheld public records following his two year military deployment.