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Limited cell phone usage to be allowed for recruits in Navy boot camp
Allowing recruits to use their cellphones during basic training comes as the Navy eyes ways to lower attrition rates and increase interest in joining up.
By Diana Stancy
Here’s how training will change for the Air Force’s newest officers
The school welcomed its first class of trainees into the new program at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, on Tuesday.
Sailors plead guilty in connection to shipmate’s fentanyl death
The junior sailor died after ingesting fentanyl aboard Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, where narcotics investigations have soared in recent years.
Fentanyl takes lives at the Navy’s boot camp base
Multiple sailors have suffered fentanyl-related deaths at the base housing the Navy's boot camp, and at least two sailors now face criminal charges.
‘Bring it’: Adm. Aquilino open to greater directed-energy trials
The Pentagon for the past three years has spent an average $1 billion on the development of directed-energy weapons, according to a watchdog.
Here’s how Air Force special ops ‘power projection wings’ will work
The move is part of AFSOC’s attempt to reimagine what its airmen can do after decades at war in U.S. Central Command.
A bunch of future Navy chiefs will head back to boot camp this fall
The "Back to Bootcamp" program was shelved in 2018 but is being resurrected for this chiefs season.
First Australian officers graduate from U.S. Navy nuclear power school
The graduation earlier this month marks a milestone in plans for Australia to field nuclear subs in the coming decades.
Navy prep course aims to launch hundreds of recruits into the fleet
The course is projected to add an additional 338 sailors to the fleet in FY23, even as the service braces to fall short of its enlisted recruitment goal.
By Diana Stancy
US Army must plan how to manage electric battlefield, lawmakers say
The Army hasn't shown a plan for how it might manage battlefield electric power storage and distribution, so lawmakers want to see what's on the table.
By Jen Judson