Pentagon nominees will be waiting for Senate confirmation when the upper chamber returns in September, but the Trump administration has dozens of top jobs there to fill. (Staff Sgt. Jette Carr/Air Force)

Top Pentagon posts 74 percent vacant as Congress returns

Pentagon nominees will be waiting for Senate confirmation when the upper chamber returns in September, but the Trump administration has dozens of top jobs there to fill.

South Korean and US troops sit inside an amphibious vehicle as they pose for photographers during an annual joint military landing exercise in Pohang, on South Korea's southeast coast, on March 12, 2016. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)

How North Korea might respond to the US-South Korea war games

America’s annual joint military exercises with South Korea always frustrate North Korea. The war games set to begin Monday may hold more potential to provoke than ever, given President Donald Trump’s “fire and fury” threats and Pyongyang’s as-yet-unpursued plan to launch missiles close to Guam.

An aircrewman aboard a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Barbers Point scans the waters off Oahu Aug. 18, 2017, for any sign of five missing aviators from an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. (Coast Guard photo by Air Station Barbers Point)

Search for missing aviators extends to Kauai shoreline

Emergency responders completed a fourth morning of searching without any trace of five missing aviators from an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that went down off of Kaena Point, the westernmost tip of land on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

The USS Indianapolis is shown at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1937. On July 30, 1945 the Japanese I-58 submarine torpedoed the Indianapolis, tearing the ship nearly in two, destroying much of the bow and igniting a firestorm below decks. (Naval Historical Center via AP)

Researchers find wreckage of WWII-era USS Indianapolis

Civilian researchers say they have located the wreck of the USS Indianapolis, the World War II heavy cruiser that played a critical role in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima before being struck by Japanese torpedoes.

Airmen salute during a ceremony honoring a retiring chief master sergeant. Air Force Maj. Kevin Deibler argues that the military's rank structure is holding back the force, especially as it prepares to fight on the battlefields of the future. (Sue Sapp/Air Force)

Commentary: The rank structure is holding us back. It’s time for drastic change

No officers? No enlisted? No kidding: This Air Force officer says it’s time to classify service members by how they can help win the modern fight — or risk losing it.

Damage to USS Fitzgerald (U.S. Navy photo)

‘Water on deck!‘ ‘Get out!‘ — The Navy's official report of the Fitzgerald's catastrophe at sea

Sailors had less than a minute to escape as seawater blasted through a massive hole in the destroyer Fitzgerald after a container ship struck its starboard side on June 19.

In this Feb. 22, 2015, file photo, Syrian Kurdish militia members of YPG make a V-sign next to poster of Abdullah Ocalan, jailed Kurdish rebel leader, and a Turkish army tank in the background in Esme village in Aleppo province, Syria. (AP Photo/Mursel Coban, Depo Photos, File)

Pentagon distances itself from allies of the U.S. partner force battling ISIS

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