Military

John Richard barely slept Monday night, kept awake by traumatic memories from his three years in the U.S. Army. He struggled to get out of bed the next morning, so he drove to his recent haven: a monkey sanctuary.

The independent watchdog for the Department of Veterans Affairs said the department’s health system is facing a severe staffing shortage of clinical and nonclinical workers that has worsened since last year - at the same time the department has shed tens of thousands of workers and recruited fewer medical workers.

The Trump administration is evaluating plans that would establish a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” composed of hundreds of National Guard troops tasked with rapidly deploying into American cities facing protests or other unrest, according to internal Pentagon documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

The Trump administration’s plan to install large-scale detention facilities on U.S. military bases is taking shape, with Fort Bliss preparing to detain at least 1,000 undocumented immigrants starting this month on the Mexican border, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Wednesday.

ATLANTA — A lockdown at Fort Stewart has been lifted after five soldiers were shot in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area, according to the U.S. Army base. The shooter was apprehended at about 11:35 a.m. The soldiers were treated on site and then transported to Winn Army Community Hospital. "There is no active threat to the community," the base stated. The base, near Hinesville, about 40 ...

Nearly two months after President Donald Trump took the extraordinary step of deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell public unrest over immigration raids, the Pentagon on Wednesday announced that it was withdrawing more than 1,000 troops.

The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN,” people familiar with the matter said.

A passenger jet landing in North Dakota performed a “go-around” to avoid colliding with an Air Force B-52, according to the commercial pilot’s comments posted to social media and the airline involved in the incident.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will replace the first woman to lead the U.S. Naval Academy, defense officials said, with the Trump administration expected to nominate a Marine Corps general to oversee the institution for the first time in its nearly 180-year history.

About half of the California National Guard members deployed to Los Angeles last month are being released, the Pentagon said Tuesday, significantly rolling back the Trump administration’s unprecedented military deployment to the city.

The Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday that it will no longer be forced to conduct a large reduction in workforce, unlike several other federal agencies that were forced to make mass layoffs because of the Trump administration’s U.S. DOGE Service.

Eric Lee was one of 23 candidates for U.S. citizenship who took the oath last August in a ceremony at Spokane’s federal courthouse. The group represented 14 countries and each candidate was supported by families and friends.

After President Donald Trump was elected, Tech. Sgt. Rylee Marcotte of the Air Force knew that despite almost 13 years of service, she would be a target.

The captain of the F-1 submarine later testified that, in the fog, he didn’t see the oncoming vessel until the last second. Someone yelled to close the main deck hatch. But it was too late. The other boat rammed the F-1 and cut a huge gash in its side.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that a Navy vessel that recognizes gay rights icon Harvey Milk has been renamed, saying that ships should not be named for activists.

Had it all gone differently, the White House might have been located in Ward, D.C. And the residents of the nation’s capital would have been, what, Wardians?

The heart of operation “Midnight Hammer” was a feint. A group of American B-2 bombers - the only jets capable of deploying 30,000-pound bunker-buster munitions with a shot at breaching the mountains shrouding Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility - flew west across the Pacific Ocean. When those planes were spotted on flight-tracker data, they were seen as being deployed as a way to strong-arm the Islamic Republic into negotiations.

The U.S. has moved dozens of air refueling tankers to European air bases in response to the Israel-Iran conflict, including some KC-135 Stratotankers that could be based out of Fairchild Air Force Base near Airway Heights.

An appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump, for now, to keep the California National Guard deployed in response to protests in Los Angeles, blocking a ruling Thursday by a federal judge that ordered the Trump administration to return control of the troops to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.