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The Pentagon has swept away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military and issued new rules that broaden their access to medical care and gender transition

The U.S. military is focusing on identifying extremist organizations in the United States that are trying to recruit members from within the armed forces, comparing the challenge to campaigns by international terrorist groups such as the Islamic State, who also used the internet to attract followers.

Father Emil Kapaun was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously and is being considered for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church.

The Pentagon received a request to keep the National Guard in The District until spring. Security has increased as many Trump supporters came to D.C. in hope of an inauguration. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

The Defense Department took more than three hours to dispatch the National Guard to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol despite a frantic request for reinforcement from police

The commanding general of the D.C. National Guard says military leaders at the Pentagon delayed deployment of his Guardsmen for three hours as Capitol Police begged for help when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Pentagon confirms 10 rockets hit al-Asad airbase which hosts U.S. troops, kills one U.S. civilian contractor

President Joe Biden is cautioning Iran against threatening U.S. troops in Iraq

A Defense Department report highlights disturbing examples of white supremacy inside the military, calling for changes in how the department screens recruits for possible ties to domestic extremism.

President Joe Biden is highlighting plans for a Pentagon review of national security strategy on China as he underscores his desire to recalibrate the U.S. approach with Beijing

Commanders of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier failed to enforce social distancing and withdrew sailors too early from quarantine last year, aggravating an outbreak of COVID-19 among the ship’s crew, according to a report from a Pentagon watchdog, NBC News reports.

The Pentagon will deploy more than 1,100 troops to five vaccination centers in what will be the first wave of increased military support for the White House campaign to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is ordering military leaders to spend time talking to their troops about extremism in the ranks, after a number of former and a few current military members took part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last month

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered hundreds of Pentagon advisory board members to resign this month as part of a broad review of the panels, essentially purging several dozen who were appointed last-minute under the Trump administration

Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a massive military bureaucracy, but also with a challenge that hits closer to home: rooting out racism and extremism in the ranks

Lloyd J. Austin, a West Point graduate who rose to the Army’s elite ranks and marched through racial barriers in a 41-year career, won Senate confirmation Friday to become the nation’s first Black secretary of defense. The 93-2 vote gave President Joe Biden his second Cabinet member; Avril Haines was confirmed on Wednesday as the first woman to serve...

Congress has sent President Biden the first bill that he’ll sign into law, a measure to allow retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as President Joe Biden’s secretary of defense

Confusion and finger-pointing continue between local and federal law enforcement agencies after Wednesday’s siege of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.

All 10 living former secretaries of defense have joined in cautioning against any attempt to use the military in the cause of overturning November’s presidential election

The U.S. House on Monday dealt a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s veto of the NDAA, the defense spending bill that was passed by Congress last week. The issue now goes to the Senate, which will need a two-thirds majority to override the president’s veto.