Military and First Responders

The Department of War on Monday announced a $22.9 billion contract with Raytheon to accelerate production of Tomahawk cruise missiles, the largest single munitions deal in recent memory, as President Trump dismissed concerns that the ongoing conflict with Iran has strained American weapons inventories. “What we’ve used is peanuts,” Trump told Fox News chief foreign […]

A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter slammed into a central Texas field Wednesday afternoon, killing both soldiers on board and touching off a fast-moving grass fire that forced residents from their homes and shut down a local roadway south of Salado. Authorities received the call at approximately 1:34 p.m. The aircraft, based at Fort […]

The U.S. Army revealed Sunday that it tested a new electronic warfare system called “Hammer of the Gods” in maritime conditions off the West Coast, the first time the weapon-disrupting technology has operated at sea after two years of land-based demonstrations. The system is designed to covertly scramble the positioning, navigation, and timing signals that […]

Eight people, including two children, died when Ukrainian forces struck tourist resorts in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, Moscow-installed officials said. Hours earlier, a Russian drone killed three civilian postal drivers in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region. The weekend’s combined toll of at least eleven dead underscored a grinding reality: more than three years […]

Fred Marsh proposed to the woman he loved on a Saturday morning. By that afternoon, the 24-year-old Arkansas police officer was underwater in Missouri’s Elk River, having pulled her to safety before the current took him instead. He never resurfaced. Marsh, a first-year officer with the Rogers Police Department, was canoeing near Noel, Missouri, with […]

Two U.S. service members died in Jordan on July 17 when Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck an American base, U.S. Central Command confirmed Saturday. A third service member remains missing. The attack marks the deadliest single day for American forces in the Middle East since March, and it pushes the total number of U.S. […]

A firefighting helicopter pilot died Sunday after his aircraft went down in a mountain reservoir in southwestern Colorado while battling the Gold Mountain Fire, one of the largest active blazes in the state. The Gunnison Regional Communications Center received a report of an aircraft down in Silver Jack Reservoir at approximately 5:17 p.m., and dive […]

A U.S. Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter made an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea early Wednesday morning, and one of the four crew members aboard remains missing as search and rescue operations continue. The other three crew members were recovered and returned to the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier in stable condition, […]

The U.S. Air Force publicly confirmed this week that its B-2 Spirit stealth bomber can now hunt and sink enemy warships, a capability demonstrated during a live-fire exercise in the Western Pacific that sent a decommissioned Navy vessel to the bottom of the Philippine Sea. The disclosure marks the first time the Air Force has […]

Three wildland firefighters died Saturday and two more were hospitalized with burn injuries after flames overtook their crew during a burnover incident on the Colorado-Utah border, a loss that prompted emergency declarations from both states and underscored the lethal severity of this year’s western wildfire season. The U.S. Wildland Fire Service confirmed the deaths in […]