The Coast Guard is honoring eight civilians for their excellence in 2021. Recently, Adm. Linda Fagan, Commandant of the Coast Guard, presented the Civilian Employee of the Year (CEOY) and Non-Appropriated Fund Civilian Employee of the Year (NAF-CEOY) awards at a ceremony at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Every year, the service recognizes a handful of civilians for going above and beyond in their work.

     Two dozen New York National Guard Soldiers helped spread the holiday spirit by volunteering to load donated Christmas trees bound for service members and their families across the country.

     The Soldiers joined veterans and Gold Star and Blue Star families at Ellms Family Farm in Ballston Spa to load 100 trees. These trees go to military bases and are distributed to military families as part of Trees for Troops, a Christmas Spirit Foundation charitable initiative.

     America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber recently made its debut after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China.

     The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Almost every aspect of the program is classified.

     The Department of the Air Force recently released its Climate Action Plan formulated in foresight and response to climate change and its reshaping of the increasingly complex global security environment. DAF installations are implementing innovative solutions and pilot programs to meet the goals outlined in the plan, bolstering mission readiness through installation energy resilience.

     Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) recently arrived in Cartagena, Colombia, in support of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2022 (CP22) mission.

     This visit marks the third of five mission stops as part of CP22 and the eleventh visit to Colombia since 2007.

     The United States Marine Corps celebrated its 247th birthday on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022.

     In 1775, the Corps was born out of a Philadelphia tavern during the American Revolutionary War.

For those who have earned the title of Marine, Nov. 10 is celebrated as if it was their own birthday, serving as a yearly reminder of the brave spirit that has compelled young men and women to defend our nation and its interests for more than two centuries.

The United States has sent a major Coast Guard vessel to patrol the waters near Port-au-Prince in a “sign of resolve” with the Haitian government as gang violence continues to grip the nation, and will impose new visa restrictions on Haitians involved in gang activity, the Biden administration said.

The Marine Corps met its recruitment goals for fiscal year 2022, making it one of the only branches this year to fully reach its target numbers.

While each of the services has been facing recruitment challenges ― which service leaders attribute among other things to the COVID-19 pandemic ― a low interest in military service and a declining eligible population, the Marine Corps managed to overcome its enlistment obstacles.

PIRAEUS, Greece - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) recently arrived in Piraeus, Greece, near the city of Athens, for a scheduled port visit.

Farragut’s port visit to Piraeus provides an opportunity to strengthen the existing partnership between the U.S. and Greece. While anchored, the crew will have opportunities to explore the cities and cultures of Piraeus and the nearby city of Athens.

JOINT BASE LEWIS McCHORD, Wash. (AFNS) --  Members of the 62nd Airlift Wing recently  said their goodbyes to friends and families before deploying in support of U.S. Central Command, U.S. European Command, and U.S. Africa Command operations. This deployment is JB Lewis McChord’s first implementation of the new Mobility Air Force ‘Force Generation’ model.

WASHINGTON – Brigade commanders no longer have the luxury of time as they face the gauntlets that are combat training center rotations.

To succeed, commanders will have to see outside their immediate area and drive their units to accomplish missions on a division or corps timeline.

Brig. Gen. Curtis Taylor, commander of the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, laid out a recent scenario during a panel on making realistic,

relevant training for large-scale combat here at the annual Association of the U.S. Army Meeting and Exposition.

The Air Force’s top enlisted leader recently rolled out the service’s first “Purple Book,” a primer on the joint force for rank-and-file airmen.

The 39-page booklet introduces airmen to high-level policy like the National Defense Strategy and describes the Air Force’s place in the bigger military picture. It’s one piece in a slew of changes aimed at better educating enlisted airmen and holding them to higher standards of performance.

“We have the first service and the only service who has a book to help us become a better joint-minded service member,” Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne Bass said at the annual Air and Space Forces Association conference.

American mobile rocket systems are making the rounds in Europe on a tour stretching from the Arctic to the Baltics and beyond as the Army shows off a star of its arsenal that has garnered attention as a godsend to Ukraine.

The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, was firing recently in Sweden’s High North on a short-notice mission that began hours earlier with troops taking flight aboard a special operations C-130 flying out of Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

“It provides us an opportunity to showcase a weapons system that right now there’s a lot of interest in across our allies and partners,” Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Maranian, commander of the Wiesbaden, Germany-based 56th Artillery Command, said.

A CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft belonging to the U.S. Air Force has been stranded at a Norwegian nature preserve after recently suffering a mechanical failure in flight, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command confirmed….

During her 37 years in the Coast Guard, Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan has sometimes questioned service traditions. Why, for example, should most officers have to move to a new post every two to four years to help advance their careers?

The Senate recently officially confirmed Lt. Gen. Michael Langley as the nation’s first Black four-star Marine general.

Langley, who will now lead U.S. troops in Africa as the commander of…

This past month, the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush relieved the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman in the Ionian Sea, after the the two flattops conducted dual operations in the Mediterranean….

Army Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Patrick Brady, a Medal of Honor recipient who turns 86 in October, until recently had never before jumped out of an airplane.

Three of his children have done airplane jumps — two of his daughters as sports…

Master Chief James Honea recently became the Navy’s 16th chief petty officer of the Navy during a ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

Honea, a sailor for 35 years, most recently served as the senior enlisted leader for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and was described by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday as having “saltwater running through his veins,” according to a video recording of the ceremony posted online.