Elements of the 82nd Airborne Division will remain deployed in the Central Command area of operations for a total of one year, according to a memorandum signed on Sunday. The deployment extension will keep parts of the division’s headquarters, artillery, sustainment brigade, 3rd Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment and 307th Engineer Battalion in the Middle East for a year. Soldiers in the division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team and Combat Aviation Brigade will also be deployed for up to a year, according to the memo.Task and Purpose and Stripes first confirmed the memorandum. The 82nd Airborne Division referred Military Times’…

The Defense Department on Monday announced two framework agreements between General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and Lockheed Martin to boost production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors. The agreements come as escalating conflicts with Iran and Ukraine have bled U.S. stockpiles of both THAAD and Patriot missiles. The ongoing conflict with Iran has depleted around two-thirds of the United States’ pre-war Patriot missile interceptor inventory, according to a July report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The think tank estimated that the U.S. has dispensed around 65%…

Dan Driscoll, who has served as the Army’s civilian leader since February 2025, tendered his resignation Monday amid reports of heightened discord with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Military Times has learned.Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news on Monday.Driscoll said he’d leave the post effective Sept. 3, according to a source with knowledge of Driscoll’s actions. A Pentagon spokesperson could not immediately confirm the news when queried by Military Times. Driscoll, a Ranger-tabbed veteran Army officer who deployed once to Iraq, also has a background in venture capital and Republican politics. He launched an unsuccessful campaign…

A U.S. Navy command investigation into a fire aboard one of its ships last year didn’t identify a root cause but said human error and poorly placed necessities exacerbated it.On Aug. 20, 2025, an 11-hour blaze broke out aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, leading to approximately $12 million in damage. Sailors successfully extinguished the blaze, leaving two service members with minor injuries. “As of the signing of this report, the NCIS investigation is ongoing, and the precise ignition source of the fire is unknown,” the report said. “As other…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. There are many things that alert deer and cause them to hightail it to parts unknown, never to be seen in your food plot again. However, hunters have misconceptions about the things that always put deer on edge, or that all-out spook them. Deer are interesting animals, and the rules that govern when and how they blow out of an area are not always black and white. In light of that, here are 10 things that don’t…

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Ken Wilsbach met with Israeli military leaders last week to discuss what Israel Defense Forces called the “regional situation” of the Iran war just before the conflict passed its six-month mark.Wilsbach met with Israel Defense Forces Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and the Commander of the Israeli Air Force Maj. Gen. Omar Tishler on Aug. 23, the IDF announced in a Wednesday social media post, with a photo of Wilsbach and Zamir shaking hands.Wilsbach confirmed the meeting in Israel on his own social media, saying the three discussed “shared priorities…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Three generations of anglers were on the Ohio River near the West Virginia town of Ravenswood as it was getting dark on Friday. Tyler Harmon, his 4-year-old son, Walker, and his father, Rodney, had launched their 18-foot aluminum boat and ran to a slow-current area. They and put out four catfish rods baited with cut creek chub minnows. “We hadn’t been fishing very long before when one of our rods bowed, I picked it up, and I knew it was a big catfish,” Tyler tells Outdoor…

Units within the Air Force Global Strike Command were directed to cease use of a communications system at an intercontinental ballistic missile base after tests found residue of a carcinogenic chemical on one of the systems.Personnel were told to stop use of the AN/PRM-10 test oscillator set, a signal generator, after an airman assigned to F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, found traces of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, on a kit, according to a recent release.The halt stemmed from a notification the command and 20th Air Force received in August that while performing a routine inspection of an AN/PRM-10 kit,…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Home Depot’s Labor Day Sale runs now through September 9, and the outdoor power tool section is where the real discounts are hiding this year. There are steep discounts on electric chainsaws and propane grills that Outdoor Life’s gear team tested and ranked. Below are the five deals worth your attention plus some highlights about each product. Home Depot Labor Day Deals Deals on Tools We’ve…

Moving/PCS Published Aug 31, 2026, 12:52 PM EDT New Rules for Flying Patriot Express With a Pet — Plus a $2K PCS Benefit Dogs traveling from screwworm-affected countries now need a certain health certificate before boarding an AMC flight. Sign in to your Military.com account U.S. Army Capt. Laura Harms, Veterinary Corps officer, poses with her dogs at the Kadena Veterinary Clinic, April 10, 2026, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. (Natalie Stanley/Army) Air Mobility Command has added a new health requirement for dogs traveling on its Patriot Express flights, tied to the ongoing spread of New World screwworm, a parasitic infestation…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics It’s rare that predatory animals like sharks have just meat in their stomachs. While most sharks primarily prey on fish, marine mammals, and other sea life, they’re still indiscriminate predators who accidentally consume stuff that’s not exactly edible. For millennia humans have lost, wrecked, or purposely dumped all kinds of stuff in the ocean. That includes everything from clothing and jewelry to priceless artwork and ancient artifacts. And given that the our modern oceans are full of plastic, metal, and general flotsam and jetsam, the stuff…

The Pentagon’s secure artificial intelligence platform now has ChatGPT.The Department of Defense on Monday launched OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil on GenAI.mil, making the chatbot available for work involving controlled unclassified information, or CUI — sensitive government information that is not classified but still requires specific safeguards. The department said ChatGPT Mil is accredited for CUI at Impact Level 5, a DoD cloud-security standard for certain sensitive unclassified information.ChatGPT Mil joins Google Gemini on GenAI.mil, giving military and civilian users access to multiple frontier AI models. A Defense Department official told Defense One that Gemini is useful for search, while ChatGPT can…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. As someone who dedicates a good chunk of every fall to public-land whitetails in multiple states, I’ve come to two realizations about baiting. The first is that I love hunting in states that allow baiting on private land, but not on public. The second is that I’m much less fond of states that allow baiting on all land, regardless of who owns it. Where baiting is allowed, it becomes the predominant hunting technique. Many hunters downplay their…

A U.S. Air Force judge on Wednesday ordered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, and three co-defendants to go on trial before a military tribunal in June 2028.The trial-scheduling order entered by Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama marked the latest milestone in a military prosecution beset by two decades of legal deadlock surrounding the four detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Last year, a U.S. appeals court refused to allow Mohammed and two of his co-defendants to plead guilty under agreements that would have spared them the death penalty. The…

The housing installation at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton in Washington state has become the first of the Navy’s six major restoration and modernization projects funded through the Barracks Task Force to reach completion, according to a recent Navy Installations Command release. The project included a “full-scale interior renovation of the 10-story, 152-room building” following fire and water damage to the original structure in August 2025. The renovation includes 304 new beds and revitalizes “common areas with dedicated recreation and community lounges on every floor,” the release says.Across the floors, the amenities include “diverse spaces for service members to relax and connect,”…

After a long deployment in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln will dock in Thailand’s resort city of Pattaya this week, raising hopes of an economic boost, even as local authorities cracked down on parts of the sex tourism destination.The Abraham Lincoln is due to dock on Wednesday at nearby Laem Chabang, with two accompanying Navy vessels, to allow nearly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard to rest and recuperate after over 200 days at sea, according to Thai officials.Ahead of its arrival, police are preparing additional patrols around Pattaya’s main beachfront and nightlife district, in…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. This story, “Jaws That Are Real,” appeared in the February 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. The American alligator was delisted from its “threatened” status under the Endangered Species Act in 1987. It was nearly dark. Sixteen-year-old Sharon Holmes dug her toes into the smooth sand of the lake bottom and let the warm water buoy her up. She listened to the frogs peeping in the calm Florida evening. Her father relaxed on shore not far away, enjoying the peace of the cypress-ringed lake. Across the…

Congressional leaders are demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after the independent office tasked with reviewing new military programs and weapons pulled all public reports from its website. “One of the most important functions of (the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation) is to provide transparency about the safety and effectiveness of major weapon systems,” wrote Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Donald Norcross (D-NJ) in a letter this month. Warren is a ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, and Norcross is a ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee’s Tactical Air and Land Forces…

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