A group of 30 Marines, sailors and soldiers from 16 countries took the oath of citizenship Thursday during a ceremony aboard the USS Midway Museum.
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The lawsuit alleges that the 35-year-old Air Force veteran was "ambushed" by a U.S. Capitol Police officer, who shot her without "warnings or commands" during the 2021 storming of Congress in support of Donald Trump. -
Independent offices have been set up for each branch of the military to handle serious felony crimes such as sex crimes, domestic violence and murder. -
From fugitive to shackled prisoner, 'Fat Leonard' lands back in US court and could face more chargesLeonard Glenn Francis has faced a federal judge for the first time since snipping off his ankle monitor in 2022 and disappearing weeks before a sentencing hearing on charges that he offered over $500,000 in cash bribes to Navy officials, defense contractors and others. -
'Fat Leonard,' a fugitive now returning to the US, was behind one of the military's biggest scandals"Fat Leonard" was arrested in a San Diego hotel in September 2013 as part of a federal sting. He faced charges of buying off dozens of top Navy officers. -
A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a deadly car crash is transferred to US custody, his family saysLt. Ridge Alkonis of Dana Point had been serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to the negligent driving deaths of a woman and her son-in-law in 2021. -
A Camp Pendleton Marine was killed Tuesday in a rollover on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, according to Marine officials. -
Veterans, service members and families marked the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, with a ceremony at the museum Thursday. -
The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps took the extraordinary step of grounding hundreds of aircraft after a preliminary investigation of last week’s crash indicated that a material failure — that something went wrong with the aircraft — and not a mistake by the crew led to the deaths. -
They wanted to share their experience with students so that history wouldn’t repeat itself, especially with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. -
The crash happened in the Mediterranean Sea during a routine air refueling mission on Saturday morning, defense officials said.
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