Military

A new $1 trillion COVID-19 response package by Senate Republicans is supposed to give the government more weapons to battle the surging coronavirus pandemic. But GOP lawmakers have more than just the “invisible enemy” in mind.

National Guard Spc. Conner Smith returned home on Friday and met his six-month-old daughter for the first time.

A new documentary from Netflix and The New York Times, “Father Soldier Son,” follows a U.S. Army Ranger platoon sergeant and the impact of his deployment to Afghanistan on his family. Directors and Times journalists Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis joined LX News to discuss what they learned about how military service affects families.

The president of a Latino civil rights group is calling for young Latina women to refuse to join the military until the armed forces guarantee their safety from rape and sexual assault.

The U.S. Marine Corps says a Marine suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound ending a two-hour standoff with military police on a California Marine Corps base

The president of a Latino civil rights group is calling for young Latina women to refuse to join the military until the armed forces guarantee their safety from rape and sexual assault. Damian Trujillo reports.

US service members are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases, according to the latest numbers from the Department of Defense. The Assistant Defense Secretary for Health Affairs, Dr. Jonathan Woodson, said COVID-19 spikes in the military are mirroring the spikes seen among civilians in Florida, Texas, and parts of California. Military COVID-19 cases rose in June, with troops seeing a…

North Korea says it will send soldiers to now-shuttered inter-Korean tourism and economic sites in its territory, reinstall guard posts and resume military exercises at front-line areas

President Donald Trump has been speaking a lot about the military, law and order.

An NBCLX analysis revealed more than $200 million in surplus military equipment was awarded to boost local law enforcement arsenals in 2019. But why do local police departments in small cities and towns need machine guns?

After recommending governors deploy more National Guard troops Monday, President Donald Trump said he would take action if states didn’t heed the suggestion. “I will deploy the U.S. military and quickly solve the problem for them,” he said.

The Pentagon says Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hasn’t asked the federal government to send troops to his state

The 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment has continued their tradition of placing American flags at every grave marker at Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day.

A formation of six F16C/D Fighting Falcons performed flyovers above Los Angeles and San Diego Friday in a tribute to hospital workers, first responders and others on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. See photos of the U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Cory W. Bush, and video from inside the cockpit.

See a view of Niagara Falls from the sky as a military plane flies over the falls as a salute to service as Western New York combats the coronavirus pandemic.

Take a ride inside the cockpit with the Blue Angels as they fly over Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis.

A Pentagon memo that says a COVID-19 diagnosis “permanently” disqualifies recruits from joining the military is actually “interim guidance” and recruits who have recovered from the disease may still be able to get a waiver that lets them sign up, according to a defense official.

The Pentagon says reports of sexual assaults across the military increased slightly last year, with the Air Force showing the biggest jump of all the services

See what the flyover from “Operation America Strong’ looked like from the view of Navy Blue Angel cockpit.