Новости за 30.08.2019

Even in retirement, Former defense secretary Jim Mattis has sought to play the role of the responsible, apolitical, respected Marine.

The Hohenfels Tigers will enjoy almost twice as many players as last year, and they will be playing in a brand-new stadium this season.

TOKYO — Japan’s Defense Ministry on Friday requested its largest-ever budget and the seventh consecutive spending hike since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in 2012.

The funeral for U.S. Army Master Sgt. Luis DeLeon-Figueroa will take place in his hometown of Chicopee, Mass. on Labor Day.

Organizers of the "Storm Area 51" event hope people will gather and try to make their way into the once top-secret U.S. Air Force test area known in popular lore as a site for government studies of outer space aliens.

The Smithsonian's Air Force X-15 had hung from the ceiling of the National Air and Space Museum since opening in 1976. It was lowered for the first time in 43 years on Aug. 21 to accommodate the building's seven-year renovation.

The inaugural five-day joint maritime drills between the United States and a group of Southeast Asian nations is intended to “build capacity in maritime domain awareness, information sharing, and sea interdiction.”

The memorial — which draws more than 4,000 visitors a day when open — is the heart of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, which focuses on the history of the Japanese surprise attack on Oahu on Dec. 7, 1941.

Military bases along Florida’s eastern coast are stowing aircraft, securing equipment and placing sandbags in preparation for Hurricane Dorian to make landfall Monday morning.

Tevin Biles-Thomas, 24, who is in the U.S. Army and the brother of gymnastics star Simone Biles, is charged with murder, voluntary manslaughter, felonious assault and perjury.

The Pentagon on Thursday established a new combatant command responsible for controlling the military’s operations in space, a step meant to counter Russian and Chinese advances in space power that could threaten long-held U.S. supremacy in that domain.

Like a victorious boxer after a grueling championship match, Joaquin Aviles flung his hands in the air after crossing the border at San Ysidro Thursday morning. It was the first time that Aviles, a Marine Corps veteran, legally entered the United States since he was deported nearly 20 years ago.