Service Members, Veterans & Military Families News & Updates
General Petraeus, the newly appointed director of the CIA, commemorates his final 4th of July/Independence Day in
Afghanistan by delivering a speech to troops who have re-enlisted.WASHINGTON — Three members of the Air Force have asked to be discharged because they are gay, moving quickly to get out of the military under the ban on openly gay service before its expected repeal later this year.
Pentagon officials said the other military services have not seen any similar effort this year under “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Defense Secretary Robert Ga.... Click the title to read more
Fort Monmouth, N.J., will close on schedule Sept. 15, and is not on a list of military installations that could be kept open into 2012, a Defense Department spokeswoman said Tuesday.
A published report earlier this month noted that the fort could be on a list of seven installations — scheduled to close in September as part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure round — proposed to be kept open up to a year past the deadline.... Click title to read more...
It is an axiom among servicemembers that the Air Force has the nicest digs. Indeed, when The Rumor Doctor visited Haiti shortly after the 2010 earthquake, it certainly appeared that the Air Force had nicer accommodations than the Army or Marines.
So The Rumor Doctor was not too surprised when a reader asked if airmen get a special allowance when they have to slum it with the other services...
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This Military times article features the story of Capt. Ademola D. Fabayo and Staff Sgt. Juan J. Rodriguez-Chavez that survived a bloody ambush in Afghanistan. Both the Captain and staff sergeant will receive thier navy cross for heroism. Click the title to read more
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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- In response to increased retention of pilots and naval flight officers (NFOs) at the department head and command levels, the Navy announced May 18 in NAVADMINs 168/11 and 169/11 that it has restructured the Aviation Career Continuation Pay (ACCP) program for fiscal year 2011.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — U.S. missiles killed at least five alleged militants Thursday in a tribal region along the Afghan border — the third such drone attack since the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
The strike is evidence that the U.S. is not letting up on cross-border drone strikes into Pakistan despite Pakistani officials’ complaints that the U.S. violated its sovereignty by killing bin Laden on their soil. Even before bin Laden’s death, the drone attacks were a source of increasing tension in the now severely strained U.S.-Pakistan relationship.
In Abbottabad, where th....
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In 2005, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Newport News performed the first cutting of a steel plate for the structure of the newest US aircraft carrier which will be in operation in 2015. The placing of the first steel plate was performed at Dry Dock 12, Newport News, Virginia in 2009.
This new aircraft carrier is named according to the 38th President of the USA which is Gerald Rudolph Ford who served in the US Navy. CVN-78 will be the lead ship of her class from three units agreed. USS Gerald Ford is made to replace USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the first nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier. CVN-79 and CVN-80 are planned to replace USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) around 2018 and 2021....
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