Новости за 23.09.2019

Four Marine officers were fired after investigators determined a pilot’s inexperience conducting nighttime, in-air refueling and a toxic command climate within the unit contributed to the mid-air collision of an F/A-18 fighter and KC-130 air tanker late last year that killed six crewmembers.

Austin Tice, a former Marine captain who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, was reporting in Damascus when he was abducted in 2012, and he’s believed to be held by the Syrian government or allied forces.

A white Dallas police officer who fatally shot a black neighbor in his own home was distracted by a phone call with a colleague with whom she had been romantically involved, a prosecutor said Monday at the start of the officer’s trial.

Kids high-fived Wookiees, hugged Jawas and posed for photos with Spider-Man at the main exchange on Ramstein Air Base over the weekend, as the mall celebrated its 10th anniversary.

An Army private at Fort Riley, Kansas, has been arrested on charges of providing instructions on how to make bombs to people he met online, including an undercover FBI agent.

Michael Walker pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and said he arranged for the woman with whom he was having an affair to kill his wife while he was working in the emergency room at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu so that he would have an alibi.

A former Army medic stationed in Hawaii is expected to plead guilty to the murder of his wife, about a week before a trial was about to begin in a case involving porn, sex charges and a love triangle.

The U.S. Navy has selected Lockheed Martin’s plant in suburban Syracuse to develop a new generation of submarine-hunting sonars in a contract worth up to $297 million over the next seven years, according to Pentagon officials.

Two former employees of the company that operates a hotel for military members and their families at Hawaii's Schofield Barracks are accused of collecting extra paychecks from the company.

A U.S. general’s comments about a plan to break through Russian air defenses in the military exclave of Kaliningrad if necessary were dismissed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as “idiotic,” Russia’s Tass news agency has reported.

The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to strip California of its contract to regulate GI Bill benefits, denying the state a power it has used in the past to investigate alleged abuses by for-profit colleges and to hand down sanctions.

President Donald Trump plans to sign the stopgap spending bill that the Senate is expected to send him this week, a senior White House official said Monday.

Three American troops were wounded Monday when an Afghan police officer opened fire at their convoy in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, a defense official said.

The U.S. Army is not publicly releasing its full investigation into a 2016 training accident at a Texas military post that left nine people dead.

The Pentagon will investigate the Air Force's handling of the development of a remotely operated boom on its newest refueling tanker, which has been plagued by a host of problems.

An attack on Saudi oil fields is not an attack on us. It does not move us into a state of war by itself, the way an attack on America would.

The 51st Fighter Wing opened the gates to Osan Air Base over the weekend for the annual Air Power Day, a show of the combined strength of South Korea and the U.S. Air Force.

Northrop is poised to take over a massive Air Force nuclear weapons program, which will call on a team of contractors to replace the U.S. military's aging stock of Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. But Boeing, which has handled the Minuteman program since 1958, has launched an aggressive lobbying campaign in defense of its interests.

The Air Force’s 36th Rescue Squadron recorded its 700th save Aug. 12 when a team airlifted an injured student attending survival, evasion, resistance and escape instructor training from a mountainside in northeastern Washington.

The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said Monday al-Qaida is to blame for most of the deaths during a night of heavy fighting and airstrikes that reportedly killed dozens of civilians in the country’s south.

A U.S. military helicopter accidentally dropped a metal container unit being airlifted Monday in South Korea, damaging a building but causing no injuries, officials said.

NASA's goal is to return to the moon by 2024 and begin long-term lunar exploration by 2028 with the hope of continuing on to Mars. Before the Orion spacecraft can launch, it will undergo numerous tests to make sure it can handle the upcoming Artemis 1 mission.

Sgt. Ken Conrad Chambers, a signal support system specialist with the 70th Brigade Engineer Battalion, was found dead on post in Alaska on Thursday.

The move, which takes effect on Sept. 30, comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said vaping may be linked to hundreds of cases of severe lung disease and at least six deaths in dozens of states.

Azam Doost, 41, of Union City, Calif., was found guilty in September last year of defrauding the U.S. government, making false statements on a loan application, wire fraud, and money laundering, the Justice Department said.