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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.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — It’s been a year and a half since sailor Angelina Resendiz was killed, and one Texas congressman is continuing to push for more answers about what happened to her.

At issue is that the United States Navy currently operates just 11 supercarriers, all nuclear-powered. That may provide unlimited range and endurance, but such carriers are slow to build and require significant maintenance periods. All ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers also require midlife refueling and complex overhauls (RCOH), a process that stretches for years and sidelines one of the U.S. Navy’s most valuable assets.

A lone mystery sailor may have nudged US naval strategy toward a multibillion-dollar U-turn—and no one can prove he exists. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Marcus Weisgerber traces how President Trump's fixation on "Bill Jones," a supposed sailor who preferred old-school steam catapults on aircraft carriers over modern electromagnetic launchers, has led to an order for the Navy to study putting 20th-century tech on a not-yet-built 21st-century warship. Trump says Jones convinced him during a 2017 tour of the USS Gerald R. Ford that steam was simpler and more reliable than the new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS).

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the Catholic Church's pastoral services to Catholics in the U.S. military, is condemning the proposed livestream of the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Navy is investing more than $18 million in upgrades to sailor housing at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach as part of a broader effort to improve living conditions for unaccompanied service members.

U.S. military involvement in the fight against the Houthis would stretch resources in the Middle East already committed to fighting Iran, analysts said.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) called on the Trump administration to remove Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from his post “immediately” over the Pentagon chief’s plan to livestream the military execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, the convicted Fort Hood shooter.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A judge denied bond Friday for a sailor charged in connection to a woman’s death that police say happened a day after an infant was found dead in a car in Virginia Beach.