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Sarayuth Pinthong/U.S. Air ForceThe outbreak at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland started weeks after the military stopped requiring troops to receive flu shots, citing medical autonomy and religious freedom. -
Marc Hall/North Carolina State UniversityThe U.S. military wants troops on the front lines to be able to make their own food — literally. It's trying to develop ways to use microbes to create meals, using a process that would look more at home in a laboratory than in a kitchen.
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During the wars in Iran and Ukraine, armies have increasingly relied on so-called "one way attack drones" - inexpensive unmanned devices that fly to their target and explode. -
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by Congress last year, able-bodied veterans are no longer exempt from SNAP's work requirements. -
The Department of Defense Inspector General blames four canine deaths on outdated and unsanitary military kennels at ten bases. -
The agents' body armor, helmets, and camouflage mimic military special forces, but may not be the most effective gear for enforcing immigration law. -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to eliminate 25,000 vacant positions and implement the largest reorganization of its giant health care system in three decades -
The massive vessels were decommissioned in favor of smaller, more versatile ships. And experts are skeptical of the plan to build new ones. -
The formation of the Western Hemisphere Command is intended to bolster the Administration's military priorities, including border security and targeting suspected drug cartels in the Caribbean. -
Veterans with male breast cancer will face additional requirements to obtain VA care and disability benefits. The agency says the Biden Administration falsely classified men's breasts as reproductive organs. -
Not only is the federal shutdown affecting many troops' paychecks, it's interrupting training and causing supply shortages. -
Groups that provide food aid and financial help to military families have seen a surge in demand this month.
