Latest ""
New in 2024: Moving to your next base should be a bit easier
Troops who planned to be stateside between October and December 2023 will now come back by the end of March 2024.
Biden nominates former FAA official Ravi Chaudhary as Air Force installations boss
Chaudhary, an Air Force retiree, served as a C-17 pilot before going on to work with NASA, the FAA and others.
VA zeroes in on gun safety as a way to reduce veteran suicides
Roughly 70 percent of veteran suicide deaths in 2019 involved a firearm.
Veteran suicides decreased 7 percent in 2019 to lowest level in 12 years
About 17 veterans a day died by suicide in 2019, the latest year for which data was available.
More vets reaching out for crisis line help amid Afghanistan collapse
VA staffers said they're encouraged by the increased outreach, and not fearful that it means a sudden increase in mental health challenges.
Breaking hearts and minds: The strategy of surrender
This is more than just an issue of international credibility, it is also one of national security.
By Joan Barker
‘We mishandled this so dramatically’: Trump acting SECDEF Chris Miller on US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller talks about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
By Howard Altman
US launched several airstrikes in support of Afghan forces this week
These are the first known U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan since Gen. Scott Miller, who had been the top U.S. commander in the country, relinquished his command and left the country last week.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
US military hands over Bagram Airfield to Afghans after nearly 20 years
At its peak around 2012, Bagram Airfield saw more than 100,000 U.S. troops pass through its sprawling compound barely an hour’s drive north of Kabul.
As troops leave, US to keep airstrike option in Afghanistan
Officials have said the withdrawal of the main U.S. military force and its equipment from Afghanistan would be largely completed by this weekend.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press and Robert Burns, The Associated Press