Space food for soldiers: Advanced military rations promoted in NDAA
The House version of next year’s defense budget bill revives a push to use emerging technology to make military rations lighter and more portable. While the standard Meal, Ready-to-Eat, or MRE, delivers nutritionally complete chow in a package weighing 1.5 pounds or less, that adds up for troops on the move: more than 30 pounds of supply per service member for a week-long patrol. And amid efforts ...[Read More]
USS Minnesota Completes First Deployment as Navy’s First Forward-Deployed Virginia-Class Submarine
NAVAL BASE GUAM (July 29, 2026) — Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Minnesota (SSN 783) returned to its homeport at Naval Base Guam on July 29, 2026, completing its first deployment since becoming the Navy’s first forward-deployed Virginia-class submarine.
George Washington arrives in Da Nang, highlighting enduring U.S.-Vietnam partnership
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), flagship of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 5, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls (CG 62), and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86) arrived in Da Nang, July 30, 2026, for a scheduled port visit.
Coast Guard seizes 2,380 pounds of marijuana near Bahamas
The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton and local forces seized an estimated 2,380 pounds of suspected marijuana worth approximately $2.8 million Saturday near Great Inagua, Bahamas. The Charles Sexton crew and the Royal Bahamas Defence Force boarded a suspected drug-smuggling vessel about 80 miles southwest of Great Inagua, where they discovered 97 bales of suspected marijuana. The...[Read More]
Pentagon has ‘kicked off’ review of US force posture in Europe
The Pentagon has formally launched the Europe force posture review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last month, beginning a process to examine U.S. military troop presence, force posture and basing across Europe. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby announced on X Tuesday that the Defense Department had “kicked off” the review Hegseth unveiled during the NATO defense minist...[Read More]
Program offering free food to moving military families expands to four more states
Military families relocating to four more areas can receive a $125 grocery stipend to redeem for food, beverages and baby essentials, according to the nonprofit Military Family Advisory Network. New programs have launched at Naval Station Norfolk and the Hampton Roads area in Virginia, as well as at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Programs launch within the next few weeks at installation...[Read More]
MCPON Visits Naval Station Great Lakes, Reinforcing the Foundation of Naval Service
GREAT LAKES, Ill. – Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Perryman concluded a visit to Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes July 27, where he met with installation leadership, Navy Reserve leaders and future officers participating in Naval Service Training Command’s New Student Indoctrination (NSI) program to gain firsthand insight into how the Navy establishes the foundation fo...[Read More]
US Navy deploys GARC uncrewed surface vessel in first live-fire training exercise
The U.S. Navy is rapidly advancing its unmanned surface fleet. Just a little over two weeks after U.S. Central Command utilized three Corsair unmanned surface vessels to strike a submarine and ship maintenance facility at the Bandar Abbas naval base in Iran, marking the “first time American forces have employed sea drones in combat operations,” the Navy confirmed its first live-fire training exerc...[Read More]
US Marine Corps welcomes delivery of final MV-22B Osprey
A staple of the skies during the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Marine Corps’ MV-22B Osprey began its final chapter in service on Tuesday with the delivery of the last model. With the acceptance of the 359th — and final — tiltrotor aircraft, the Marine Corps marked the end of the MV-22B Osprey program of record, a milestone that will now shift efforts towards “sustaining and modernizing th...[Read More]
Navy Ships Complete First-of-a-Kind Exercise
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Stout (DDG 55) and USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) completed Limited Integrated Training Exercise (LITEX) July 28.
US military may require some troops in Mideast to surrender cell phones, sources say
The top U.S. commander for the Middle East has warned troops that cellphone videos shared online can help Iran target American bases, and sources told Reuters some deployed personnel could soon be ordered to surrender their phones. Any crackdown on mobile communications would add a new dimension to the conflict for the thousands of U.S. troops in the region, many of whom still rely on phones to pe...[Read More]
South Carolina military base to be renamed after Lindsey Graham
The Pentagon is moving to rename a joint military base in South Carolina after Lindsey Graham, a Republican U.S. senator from the state who died July 11. Joint Base Charleston, housed in North Charleston, South Carolina, is slated to be renamed after Graham, a U.S. Air Force official told Military Times. Graham spent 33 years in the Air Force as an active-duty staff judge advocate, a South Carolin...[Read More]