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American fighter jets are flying near-nightly missions over the Strait of Hormuz to intercept Iranian missiles and drones targeting commercial ships, sustaining an operation that has restored oil exports while stretching Navy crews, aircraft, and maintenance teams thin. However, at the same time it is also spending large amounts of resources.

Christina Fuller is an American former military spouse living without legal residency in southern Spain, where a custody fight has kept her and her son for years. When her family arrived near the Strait of Gibraltar on US military orders, her son was two. Now, he’s nearly 10. Fuller’s marriage to a US Navy sailor assigned to a guided-missile destroyer at Naval Station Rota fell apart soon after the family arrived in 2019.

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U.S. sailors can expect extra long deployments for the foreseeable future, U.S. Navy officials said during separate speaking engagements with the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation this week.

Ahead of next week’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished institutional guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 presidential election. Here’s what to know.

Among the 281 arrests were 13 Disney World employees, four Universal Studios employees, and a local youth football coach, and an active-duty Navy sailor. The coach and sailor were among those arrested on sexual predator allegations.

Senator Chris Murphy reviewed a classified briefing on Iran and came out saying Trump’s plan is “insane” and would decimate America’s commitment to the “rule of law.”

Thousands of military veterans with VA-backed mortgages have been hit with higher interest rates and monthly payments since last year, when the Trump administration shut down a low-interest program designed to help them.

The announcement of the Pentagon's FORTRESS initiative has drawn attention to the U.S. military's strategies aiming to bolster its energy resilience amid concerns over grid reliability, supply-chain disruptions and other potential threats.

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Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon's top military planner, a Pentagon official told CBS News late Wednesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters, said Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was accused of misconduct for leaking classified information related to the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war.

For Jessica Maloney, the inability to find childcare has meant giving up the chance to work while raising three children under 6. The Army spouse at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, said her family depends on her income, but without reliable childcare, she cannot earn one.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s top military planner, a defense official said Wednesday, the latest in a series of generals to be ousted and one that comes even as President Donald Trump is weighing renewed strikes on Iran in the eight-month-long war.

It was a brazen act of espionage. An American wiretap on a Soviet underwater cable during the Cold War reaped untold amounts of information for a nearly a decade. The intelligence it gathered helped the U.S. navigate the negotiation of the famed Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II) Treaty of 1979. It all came crashing down when a former NSA agent, drowning in debt, decided to trade national secrets to the Soviets for a quick payday.

Decades after their fathers served in Vietnam and were exposed to Agent Orange, children living with disabilities are fighting for benefits that VA provides to children of women who served in the same war

‘Seats are not being filled’: Veterans say VA is not supporting stakeholder advisory committees Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2026-10-27/veterans-advisory-committees-va-23278062.html Source - Stars and Stripes

NORFOLK, Va. — The Navy’s inspector general is investigating allegations that practices at the Navy brig in Chesapeake have infringed on service members’ legal rights, according to sources familiar with the investigation. A group of attorneys representing current and former clients at the brig filed an investigative complaint with the Navy’s inspector general, alleging violations of clients’ Sixth Amendment right to counsel and illegal pretrial punishment through the systemic overuse of maximum custody — the Navy’s term for solitary confinement.

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China is building more submarines, of more classes, than any other country. It has several brand-new ambitious design readying for series production and is forging ahead in the uncrewed space. But this unique trimaran design appears the strangest of them all.

The USS Spruance has broken records for the longest destroyer deployment since the end of World War II. The Navy ship has been deployed for more than 11 months after hitting the 339-day mark on Sunday, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, citing the service.

The Navy saw the most Class A aviation and afloat mishaps in at least in a decade, according to Fiscal Year 2026 data recently released by the Navy Safety Command.

Navy identifies NAS Pensacola sailors killed in car crash

A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers, led by U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), has formally petitioned the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to classify Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM) as a presumptive service-connected disability. IBM is a progressive, incurable neuromuscular condition that shares significant clinical and pathological characteristics with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Despite data from The Myositis Association indicating that IBM is more than ten times as prevalent among military veterans compared to civilians—roughly 189 cases per million veterans versus 15 per million civilians—the VA currently lacks a presumptive pathway for IBM claims. Consequently, affected veterans face a lengthy individualized claims process that carries an estimated 82% denial rate, forcing many into prolonged appeals to secure benefits.

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