Command Master Chief Javier Muñoz
Command Master Chief Javier Muñoz was born in Usulután, El Salvador and graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond, Calif. He attended Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. and Aviation Machinist’s Mate “A” school in Pensacola, Fl.
U.S., ROK Navies Conduct CONSOL During Freedom Edge 25
Military Sealift Command’s commercial charter oiler motor tanker Allied Pacific conducted a consolidated cargo replenishment at sea with Republic of Korea’s Cheonji-class fast combat support ship ROKS Daecheong (AOE-58), Sept. 18, in support of Freedom Edge 25.
Trump says he now thinks Ukraine can win back all land lost to Russia
UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he believed Ukraine could win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader’s repeated calls for Kyiv to make concessions to end the war. Trump posted on social media soon after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly gathering of world leaders. ...[Read More]
USS Stockdale arrives in Caribbean to support counter-narcotics effort
The USS Stockdale arrived in the Caribbean after traveling through the Panama Canal on Monday to support U.S. anti-narcotics operations, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Military Times. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer replaced the USS Sampson and assumes its mission of helping monitor, detect and halt the illicit flow of narcotics in the area, the official said. There are curr...[Read More]
CENTCOM forms task force to speed delivery of drones, tech to troops
U.S. Central Command announced a new task force Tuesday that it hopes will speed up and simplify the process of equipping units with combat-ready technology. The new organization, the Rapid Employment Joint Task Force, will be led by CENTCOM’s chief technology officer, Joy Shanaberger, and will focus on synthesizing logistics for capability, software and tech diplomacy. “The new task force will sy...[Read More]
CENTCOM forms task force to speed delivery of drones, tech to troops
U.S. Central Command announced a new task force Tuesday that it hopes will speed up and simplify the process of equipping units with combat-ready technology. The new organization, the Rapid Employment Joint Task Force, will be led by CENTCOM’s chief technology officer, Joy Shanaberger, and will focus on synthesizing logistics for capability, software and tech diplomacy. “The new task force will sy...[Read More]
Navy CNO emphasizes better career training in newest message to fleet
The U.S. Navy’s senior military officer provided updates Monday on how he will leverage the service’s personnel and infrastructure for a war-fighting advantage. Adm. Daryl Caudle, who became the 34th chief of naval operations on Aug. 25, framed his expectations for the enhanced technical competence of service members in an administrative message to sailors. “To keep pace with the proliferation of ...[Read More]
Navy CNO emphasizes better career training in newest message to fleet
The U.S. Navy’s senior military officer provided updates Monday on how he will leverage the service’s personnel and infrastructure for a war-fighting advantage. Adm. Daryl Caudle, who became the 34th chief of naval operations on Aug. 25, framed his expectations for the enhanced technical competence of service members in an administrative message to sailors. “To keep pace with the proliferation of ...[Read More]
Hegseth terminates women’s advisory group, slams ‘divisive agenda’
The Pentagon has announced plans to terminate a 75-year-old advisory committee serving female service members, citing a “divisive” and harmful agenda — days after a previous memo established plans for reactivating it. A Sept. 17 memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and reviewed by Military Times directs the “formal disestablishment” of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Servic...[Read More]
The Future of Crewless Naval Warfare Is Being Built in New England
This year’s Big Beautiful Bill, signed by President Donald Trump in July, allocated several billion dollars toward unmanned systems across all branches of the military.
Who is John Frum? Inside the ‘cargo cult’ that worships American GIs
A bell rings. Men carrying thick bamboo poles as “rifles” with U.S.A. painted on their bare chests begin to march, in lockstep, toward a clearing in the forest. The man-made clearing is a rough opening meant to be a landing strip. Awaiting the “soldiers” is a wooden replica of a light aircraft. “On one side of the strip lies a control tower made of bamboo,” writes sapiens.org. “On the other sits a...[Read More]
Successful Trident II D5 Life Extension (D5LE) Launches Demonstrate Continued Readiness of Nation’s Sea-Based Deterrent
ATLANTIC OCEAN – The U.S. Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs conducted four scheduled missile test flights of unarmed Trident II D5LE missiles from an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine off the east coast of Florida from September 17-21. One launch test event Sunday evening lit up the night sky and was visible from Puerto Rico.