By Terri Moon Cronk, DoD News, Defense Media Activity   Abu Nabil | AFP photo WASHINGTON Dec. 7, 2015 — The Defense Department has confirmed the deaths of senior terrorist leaders in Libya and Somalia from recent U.S. airstrikes, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement today. Cook...

By Cheryl Pellerin | DoD News, Defense Media Activity   Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday that beginning in January 2016, all military occupations and positions will be open to women, without exception. For the first time in U.S. military history, as long as they qualify and meet...

Timu M. Saari, an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadet at the University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., has graduated from the Cadet Leader Course at Fort Knox, Ky. CLC is a 30-day summer training event focused on training cadets to solve complex leadership issues and problems at the company...

By Lisa Ferdinando, DoD News | Defense Media Activity   Air Force Maj. Scott Gregg, Black Dart project officer, speaks to the media in front of a MQ-9 unmanned aircraft system, at Naval Base Ventura County and Sea Range, Point Mugu. Small, unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, are easy to obtain...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Monday that the remains of U.S. servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been accounted for and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. Army Air Forces 1st Lts. William D. Bernier of Augusta, Montana; Bryant...

By Jim Garamone | DoD News, Defense Media Activity   The United States is at war with the terror group ISIL, “in the same way we’re at war and continue to be at war with al-Qaida and its affiliates,” Pentagon press secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said Friday. It is a different type...

The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that 17 service members have been recovered from a C-124 Globemaster aircraft that was lost on Nov. 22, 1952. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Lawrence S. Singleton, Pvt. James Green, Jr., and Pvt. Leonard A. Kittle; U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Earl J. Stearns; U.S. Navy Cmdr....

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, made the following statement in reaction to the commencement of furloughs for Department of Defense civilian employees: “I am disappointed that today hundreds of thousands of federal employees, many of...

U.S. Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon In national security circles, much is made about the importance of military readiness. Readiness is a way of estimating whether our troops are fit to fight; whether we have the manpower, skills, equipment and capabilities necessary to perform, efficiently and...

U.S. Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon The Department of Defense officially informed  Congress Wednesday of its intent to impose furloughs on the Department of  Defense’s entire civilian workforce as it copes with the automatic  spending cuts known as sequestration. The furlough program...