Joint Base Charleston will now be known as Joint Base Lindsey Graham. The senator served as a judge advocate general before retiring as a colonel in 2015.
“Lindsey spent his final years taking on a radical leftist ideology that had run rampant in the media, in academia and even among a few members of Congress,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday.
President Trump ordered U.S. warships and aircraft to stop vessels going to and from Iran. Enforcing a blockade takes a huge commitment of warships and aircraft.
The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in San Diego in 2022. According to the U.S. Naval Institute, as of Monday it is anchoring one of two aircraft carrier strike groups deployed in the Northern Arabian Sea.
Nearly 5,000 Guard troops are in the capital, double the number initially deployed. Many have passed the time washing off graffiti and picking up trash.
Our reporter John Ismay, who served as a Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer and deep-sea diver for eight years, explains why mines in the Strait of Hormuz may outlast the war.
Two Force Recon Marines received the medal on Thursday for their actions more than 50 years ago, alongside an Army officer who showed exceptional bravery in 2012.
Investigators are just beginning to determine what went wrong, but the Air Force has struggled to maintain the planes, which were first introduced in 1955.
The aircraft burst into flames on Monday morning shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in California, officials said. The cause is still under investigation.
The Defense Department made the change after lawmakers objected to its original list, which did not include the Latter-day Saints among traditions labeled Christian.
The new policy, which the Pentagon framed as a largely administrative action, leaves just 31 religious categories to choose from, 22 of which are Christian.
In a video posted to social media on March 24, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the military’s chaplain corps had been “infected by political correctness and secular humanism” under previous administrations.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called those killed in the strikes “narco-terrorists,” but the Trump administration has not provided evidence of drug smuggling.
A report from the Congressional Budget Office said that space-based interceptors, which do not currently exist, would probably consume 60 percent of the total cost.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, said during an Armed Services Committees hearing on Thursday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had “dangerously exaggerated” the U.S. military’s accomplishments in the Iran war.
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