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Airman 1st Class Jack Pepper (with goggles) attempts a maneuver on a simulator while Lt. Col. Paul Vicars looks on. Pepper is among the first participants in Pilot Training Next, which uses off-the-shelf virtual reality technology.

These Air Force Trainees Spend Less Time In the Cockpit, More Time In Flight Simulators

Facing a shortage of pilots, the Air Force is experimenting with ways to make training programs faster and less expensive.In a makeshift classroom in…

Instructor Andy Bershad shows New York National Guard members how to assess a patient. Forty Guard members are training to become EMTs to assist understaffed nursing homes.

In COVID-weary New York, the National Guard is getting medical training to help in nursing homes

In a sign of how desperate some states are for health care workers during the pandemic, New York has begun teaching EMT skills to National Guard members.

Members of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2021 take the oath of office to become Marine Corps second lieutenants during their May graduation and commissioning ceremony.

Amid A 'Stark' Racial Disparity In Military Academy Nominations, Should Congress Be Doing More?

Advocates say more members of Congress should reach out to Black and Latino high school students and make them aware of opportunities at the elite schools.

Senior Chief Operations Specialist Douglas Reece leads a training session on extremism in the ranks aboard the USS Curtis Wilbur in February 2021. The session was part of a Defense Department-wide stand down.

An investigation of a San Diego Marine is raising questions about the military's extremism policy

The Marine Corps investigated whether the reservist son of a former San Diego Republican official tried to join a white supremacist group. But the outcome of the case provided little clarity into the military's new anti-extremism policy.

El Paso County, Col. resident Liz Rosenbaum spends about 70 dollars per month on bottled drinking water rather than drink from her tap.

Despite A Massive Cleanup Effort, People Near Some Military Bases Still Can't Drink Their Tap Water

The military is spending millions of dollars to clean up water contamination around bases throughout the country. But people living with the contamination…

A memorial honors the victims of a 2017 mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A federal judge ruled that Devin Kelley might not have been able to buy the weapon he used in the shooting if the military had reported his criminal history to the FBI background check database.

Inconsistent military domestic violence policies allow troops with criminal histories to buy guns

More than four years after a former airman killed 26 people at a rural Texas church, advocates say the military still needs to do more to prevent violent service members and veterans from owning guns.

A photograph from an August 2026 Government Accountability Office report shows suspected mold in a barracks closet at Naval Station Norfolk.

Almost a year after the Pentagon formed a 'barracks task force,' some say repairs are moving slowly

The Pentagon received $1.2 billion from Congress last year for repairs to barracks around the world, which have been plagued for years by problems such as mold, insects, and safety hazards.

Construction projects at the Durham VA hospital include a 10-bed hospice wing, a radiation oncology wing, and expanded space for primary and dental care.

VA Building Boom Cuts Wait Times For Many North Carolina Veterans

New Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities in Fayetteville, Charlotte, and elsewhere have reduced wait times. But the VA concedes it must do...

Gene Popiolek, 68, (left) visits his father Bernie, 95, at an assisted living facility outside Baltimore. Bernie, a WWII veteran, pays to live here with help from the VA's Aid and Attendance benefit.

A VA Program Can Help War Veterans Pay For Long-Term Care, But Applying For It Can Be An Ordeal

The VA Aid and Attendance benefit can help some vets and spouses pay for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health care. But the…

This wanted poster provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Leonard Francis, also known as "Fat Leonard," who was on home confinement, and allegedly cut off his GPS ankle monitor and left his home on the morning of Sept. 4, 2022. Multiple agencies were searching for Francis on Tuesday Sept. 6, but they acknowledged he may already be in Mexico with the border only a 40-minute drive from his home. (U.S. Marshals Service via AP)

Eleven years after his arrest, 'Fat Leonard' faces sentencing in a massive Navy corruption scandal

Military contractor Leonard Glenn Francis bribed more than thirty Navy officials in one of the biggest military corruption cases in U.S. history.

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