Budget cuts due to sequestration have put a damper on military bands' ability to travel for performances at community events. But a California lawmaker has introduced a measure that would make it easier to let the beat go on.

The Pentagon is scheduled to announce a plan today that would allow women to train for military special forces units like the Navy SEALs and Army Rangers.

Ex-Navy SEAL Jesse Ventura filed a defamation lawsuit in 2012 against "American Sniper" Chris Kyle over an alleged bar fight in Coronado seven years ago. Today Ventura's attorneys asked a federal judge to make Kyle's widow Taya Kyle the new defendant in the case.

The latest suicide statistics from the Department of Defense show 52 percent of troops who took their own lives between 2008 and 2011 were never deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Roughly 34 percent who committed suicide were deployed, but didn't see combat.

The U.S. troops currently in Jordan participating in the military exercise Eager Lion plan to leave the country Thursday when the training ends. But the Pentagon says they'll be leaving behind a detachment of F-16s and U.S. Patriot missiles at Jordan's request.

Sebastien de la Cruz is the 11-year-old son of a U.S. Navy veteran who made national headlines this week when he was inundated with racist Tweets after singing the Star-Spangled Banner before Game 3 of the NBA Finals. But, apparently, singing great is the best revenge...

A group of United States Marines is taking part in the yearly military exercise known as "Eager Lion" in Jordan, a country that borders Syria. Just yesterday, President Obama said he would increase military aid to Syrian rebels as a consequence of the nation using chemical weapons on its own people.

Quadruple amputee Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, who lost all four limbs in an Afghan IED blast, gave advice to a Boston Marathon bomb blast survivor during a recent visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

An investigation is underway as to why a K-MAX unmanned helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on June 5. The aircraft was delivering cargo to Marines near Camp Leatherneck when it went down.

Army Staff Sgt. Jesse L. Thomas Jr., 31, died in Afghanistan on June 10. The incident that caused his death is under investigation, according to the Pentagon.

Roughly 200 United States Marines are stationed near Darwin in Australia. Recently, some of them took a little time off from training to learn Australian Rules Football. The Marines caught on quite quickly, despite the language barrier. Oi, oi, oi!

Army officials have suspended Lt. Col. Joseph Miley, commander of the Alaska Army National Guard’s 49th Missile Defense Battalion, as they investigate allegations of sexual misconduct.

The third person killed when an Afghan soldier turned his gun on the Americans who were training him has been identified by the Pentagon as Maj. Jaimie E. Leonard, 39, of New York.

Camp Pendleton Marine Staff Sgt. Luis Del Valle wasn't able to make his daughter's graduation from eighth grade several years back because he was deployed to Afghanistan. Del Valle wanted to make sure that when his daughter graduated from high school, he would be front and center.

The four-year-old son of former Green Beret Justin Stanfield Thomas accidentally shot and killed his father when he discharged a handgun found at the house of a family friend.

The mother of murdered Camp Pendleton Marine Sgt. Jan Pietrzak gave her victim impact statement Monday during the penalty phase of the trial against three other Camp Pendleton Marines who killed her son and his wife in 2008.

After dropping out of high school, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden enlisted in the U.S. Army with hopes of joining the service's special forces. He was discharged, however, after just five months.

Army Lt. Col. Todd Clark and civilian law enforcement professional Joseph Morabito were killed June 8 when the Afghan soldier they were training shot and killed them.

Despite China's objections, thousands of Japanese, Canadian, and New Zealander troops will participate in the military exercise 'Dawn Blitz' with Camp Pendleton Marines and Sailors from June 11 to 28.

Army chief of staff Gen. Ray Odierno on Friday relieved Maj. Gen. Michael Harrison of his duties as the commanding general of U.S. Army Japan for allegedly failing to report a charge of sexual assault.

Air National Guard Tech Sgt. Angie Johnson, who gained fame when video of her singing "Rolling in the Deep" in Afghanistan went viral, has released her first professional music video aptly called "Sing for You."

The parents of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl said this week they received a letter they believe was written by their son. It's the first direct contact from Bergdahl, who has been a prisoner of war since 2009.

A Washington Post article suggesting military families are taking advantage of the American taxpayer because they pay wholesale costs on food items like ketchup has many military moms seeing red.

Two separate Riverside County juries found three ex-Camp Pendleton Marines guilty of first-degree murder in the brutal killings of MCAS Marine Sgt. Jan Pietrzak and his wife, Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak in 2008.

The different branches of the U.S. military currently use ten different patterns of camouflage for their uniforms. But under a measure passed Wednesday by the House Armed Services Committee, the services would have to agree on one common pattern.

Six U.S. troops have lost their lives in Afghanistan since the month of June began. On June 1, Army Staff Sgt. Job Reigoux was killed when his unit was hit by a rocket propelled grenade.

The Pentagon has named the two U.S. soldiers killed, along with nine Afghan school children, when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives on June 3 in Tsamkani, Afghanistan. They were 2nd Lt. Justin L. Sisson, 23, of Phoenix, Arizona, and Spc. Robert A. Pierce, 20, of Panama, Oklahoma.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales pleaded guilty Wednesday to multiple murder counts in the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians, nine of whom were children.

Navy FCC Christopher Roberts of the San Diego homeported USS Benfold was a contestant on the game show "The Price Is Right." Roberts's episode aired Monday, and he won the last (or first?) thing you'd think a Sailor would want to win.

Army Warrant Officer Sean W. Mullen, 39, died in Afghanistan on June 2nd. The Department of Defense reports Mullen was killed when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.

Chris Beck was in the military for 20 years and a member of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6. But it wasn't until Beck's retirement in 2011 that Chris was able to become Kristen, and reveal herself to be a transgender female.

Nine Afghan children walking home from school and two U.S. troops were killed Monday by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle in Paktia province, Afghanistan.

The first day of June was a deadly one for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Three soldiers died in three separate incidents, including Army Spc. Kyle P. Stoeckli, 21, who was killed in an IED attack.

The Department of Defense announced it is investigating the death of Army Pfc. Mariano M. Raymundo, 21, who died in Sharan, Afghanistan on June 1.

Army Spc. Ray A. Ramirez, 20, of Sacramento, California, was killed June 1 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan from injuries suffered when his vehicle was attacked with an improvised explosive device.

Army Staff Sgt. Joe A. Nunezrodriguez, 29, died May 30 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. He was killed when the vehicle he was riding in was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device.

The family of Camp Pendleton Marine Sgt. Manuel Loggins has agreed to settle its federal lawsuit for $4.4 million. An Orange County Sheriff's deputy shot and killed Loggins in front of his young daughters in February 2012.

A Camp Pendleton Marine was killed over Memorial Day weekend in an ATV crash while visiting family in Missouri. The funeral for Cpl. Devin J. Scholl, 24, was held this morning in his hometown of Festus, Missouri.

The Navy has fired Master Chief Petty Officer Brian K. Page from his position as command master chief of Carrier Air Wing 2, amid allegations he continued an extramarital affair after being reprimanded for the relationship. Carrier Air Wing 2 is attached to the San Diego-based USS Ronald Reagan.

The family pet of Frederick and Cheryl Angle died in a most unusual way. Sarah the cat was sitting on a bed in the Angle family's New Jersey home when she was hit by a stray piece of artillery that crashed through the roof. Now the Angles are suing the government for their loss.

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), led by Army veteran Richard Gillespie, may have discovered the lost plane of Amelia Earhart on sonar.

Military recruits would be required to purchase athletic shoes made in America, under new proposed federal legislation.

This one probably doesn't come as much of a shocker: The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces recently ruled it's illegal for anyone in the U.S. military to make a sex tape, even if no one ever sees it.

A command investigation into the deadly training explosion at the Hawthorne Army Depot that killed seven Marines has found human error was to blame. In addition to the seven Marines who lost their lives, eight other service members of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, were injured in the March 18 accident.

A team of U.S. airmen became the first group of active-duty American service members to summit Mount Everest. Sadly, illness forced Capt. Colin Merrin of Santee to turn back before he could summit with his team.

National Guardsman Spc. Christopher R. Drake, 20, was killed over Memorial Day weekend in Afghanistan when a rocket propelled grenade hit his vehicle.

Marine veteran Logan Stark was a member of Camp Pendleton's 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines - known as Darkhorse Battalion. Now a student on the G.I. Bill, Stark has made a documentary called "For the 25" as a tribute to the 25 Darkhorse Marines killed during their seven month deployment in Afghanistan.

The Japanese military rescued a U.S. Air Force pilot from the Pacific Ocean Tuesday after he was forced to eject from his disabled F-15C fighter jet off the coast of Okinawa.

Stone Brewing Co. in Escondido is one of nine craft breweries nationwide that helped create Homefront IPA, a new beer debuting Memorial Day. Proceeds from the sale of the beer will be donated to Operation Homefront.

The effects of sequestration are about to hit home for many military families. The Pentagon announced today most military commissaries will soon be closed on Mondays.