Pentagon To Make Database To Track Medal Awardees
Posted: 1:46 PM The Pentagon says it plans to establish a searchable database of military valor awards and medals.
Posted: 1:46 PM The Pentagon says it plans to establish a searchable database of military valor awards and medals.
Updated: 3:21 PM The head of the Pentagon's Cyber Command is cautioning that al-Qaida could acquire the ability to conduct destructive computer attacks on the U.S. very quickly.
Updated: 5:52 AM Six troops killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan Sunday were Americans, NATO has confirmed.
Posted: 11:41 AM U.S. troops in Afghanistan are finding and avoiding more improvised explosive devices than last year.
Posted: 11:53 AM The Pentagon says an attack in eastern Afghanistan that wounded several American soldiers appears to have been perpetrated by an Afghan soldier.
Posted: 8:51 PM President Barack Obama is marking the Fourth of July by thanking service members and their families, who he said "represent what is best in America."
Posted: 10:56 AM Officials say the Obama administration is edging toward decisions that would further shrink the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Updated: 7:59 AM More than 1,000 soldiers from Fort Carson are being trained to fight wildfires amid a deadly and destructive fire season in the West.
Updated: 8:54 AM Four crew members were killed when a C-130 equipped with a MAFFS system crashed while fighting a fire in South Dakota.
Posted: 11:14 AM The U.S. Navy is resuming its practice of using old warships for target practice and sinking them in U.S. coastal waters after a nearly two-year moratorium spurred by environmental and cost concerns.
Posted: 10:54 AM The Waldo Canyon fire entered the Colorado Springs city limits Tuesday evening, endangering the Air Force Academy. A number of cadets were evacuated.
Updated: 7:58 PM The director of national intelligence is announcing two steps to avert leaks of classified information following recent disclosures about national security.
Updated: 5:40 AM A team of Air Force hot shots, firefighters from Peterson Air Force Base and engineering units from Fort Carson were the latest military resources to join the fight against the Waldo Canyon Fire.
Posted: 4:14 PM Proposed changes in military compensation would base combat pay on the level of danger troops are in and could make them wait for annual tax refunds to get their extra pay.
Posted: 4:45 PM The Associated Press has learned that a U.S. military investigation is recommending that as many as seven U.S. troops face administrative punishments, but not criminal charges, in the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base in Afghanistan in February.
Posted: 10:26 AM A judge has barred an Army psychiatrist charged in a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood from military court because he still has a beard.
Posted: 11:40 AM Capt. Francis Gary Powers is being posthumously awarded the Silver Star at the Pentagon for his loyalty while being held captive by the Soviet Union in the 1960s.
Posted: 8:36 AM A Fort Carson soldier accused of sexually assaulting a teenager will face a judge Friday.
Posted: 12:42 PM Two members of Congress say new information from the Air Force shows an oxygen-deficit problem on F-22 fighter jets is worse than previously disclosed.
Updated: 2:27 PM France's defense ministry says four of its troops have been killed and five others wounded during an operation in eastern Afghanistan Saturday.
Posted: 11:58 AM No charges will be dropped against Pvt. Bradley Manning after a judge denied the request to drop eight of the 22 counts Manning faces for allegedly leaking government secrets to the website Wikileaks.
Updated: 5:21 PM Fort Carson held a memorial service Friday for a soldier killed in action while serving in Afghanistan.
Updated: 6:58 PM Suicides among active-duty U.S. troops are surging, averaging nearly one per day this year.
