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And yet Hegseth's latest announcements suggest that he has learned remarkably little from his experiences. At a recent address at Quantico, he declared that the "warrior ethos has been revived" and "American deterrence is back," even as he announced plans to eliminate 20 percent of general and admiral positions. He also briefly championed a plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, turning military violence into a public spectacle supposedly meant to demonstrate U.S. resolve, before a public backlash—strong enough to push Trump away from the planned display of public cruelty—put the kibosh on those plans. Still, the dissonance is jarring: The defense secretary is so thoroughly preoccupied with projecting toughness and glorifying lethality, all while presiding over a war that has exposed the limits of U.S. power potentially even more than its debacles in Vietnam and Iraq.

A former senior official in the George W. Bush administration has delivered a scathing critique of President Trump’s military strategy, claiming that the administration has committed a stunning strategic error despite America's considerable military superiority.

During her tenure at the helm of the VA’s OIG, Mason has overseen significant staff cuts and watered down the office’s oversight work, according to some employees, who argue that services for veterans are less effective and efficient as a result.

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A U.S. Navy sailor who spent nearly a year deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln returned home to an emotional reunion, but one important person was missing: her father, who had been deported to Mexico while she was serving overseas.

Senate Democrats are quietly floating the ouster of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth after the Nov. 3 election as the political price for cooperation on key defense-related issues in the postelection lame-duck session, and they may have some GOP support to shake up the Pentagon's leadership, according to Senate sources.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth may have exposed U.S. troops to foreign intelligence. The Defense Department's Office of Inspector General issued a report Wednesday calling out the failure to protect sensitive communications and location information, saying there are major security weaknesses in the Pentagon's $2.67 billion cell phone contracts, The Daily Beast reports.

Giovanna Perez loaded her four kids into the car on September 21 and drove from their home in Weslaco, Texas, to Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. She had a 9:30 a.m. appointment to pick up the ID cards that would allow them to access military medical insurance, facilities, and commissary stores. Her husband, Pedro Gutierrez, had recently enlisted in the Army and left a month earlier for basic training at Fort Benning, in Georgia.

PORTFOLIO ACQUISITION EXECUTIVE AVIATION, Patuxent River, Md. — The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of a newly manufactured C-130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft from Lockheed Martin during a formal ceremony Oct. 15 at the company’s production facility in Marietta, Georgia, marking the first step toward fielding the future E-130J “Phoenix II.”

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Washington — In late December, two months before the U.S. war with Iran began, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George warned that his service was critically short on missile defense munitions and that the shortage would last another five years, according to multiple U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ousted George in April, as the Iran war was underway.

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A former Pentagon official who led the government's investigation into unidentified flying objects says the U.S. recovered non-human bodies from the infamous 1947 Roswell crash. The claim comes from an alleged insider whose account is detailed in his new memoir, according to People, but the evidence behind the reported recovery remains unverified.

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October Sees Near Daily Strikes on Ships in Hormuz

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said in a letter to the White House that the military has “exceeded” the parameters of president donald trump’s orders in striking alleged drug-smuggling vessels as a part of its counternarcotics operation.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating the death of a sailor at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton, Wash. The sailor, who was assigned to the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN-727), was found unresponsive at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Sunday following a single-vehicle crash at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton, Lt. Zachary Anderson, spokesperson for Submarine Group 9, told USNI News in an email.