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It took a medevac unit 59 minutes to get U.S. Army Spec. Chazray Clark to a hospital in southern Afghanistan after receiving a call that a roadside bombing severed three of his limbs.

The U.S. Special Operations Command chief said he would like greater autonomy to send forces where intelligence information indicates they're needed.

It's been nearly 70 years since women officially became part of the Marine Corps, and Parris Island is honoring their service with a day of events dedicated to them.

In this Wednesday, March 16, 2011 file photo the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine is seen in Gadzhiyevo in the Murmansk region, Russia flying the Russian Navy's St.

A developer and Virginia's housing agency are proposing a large-scale residential project be built in the center of historic Fort Monroe, but Hampton city officials oppose the plan.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A beach at Camp Pendleton has been closed after about 18,000 gallons spilled from the main sewer line at the Marine Corps base in northern San Diego County.

A U.S. Air Force sergeant from Iowa has been killed in a motorcycle accident in southern Arizona.

The top U.S. Navy official in the Gulf said Sunday he takes Iran's military capabilities seriously but insists his forces are prepared to confront any Iranian aggression in the region.

Sergeant Michael Kidd considered cyberspace a hobby before he joined the Marines in 2003, but he hopes to make it his new battlefield after suffering debilitating injuries in Iraq.

During a recent training operation in Virginia and North Carolina, observers in a Virginia Navy command center saw twice as many U.S. forces approaching a beach than were actually there.

HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - The Air Force training underway for hundreds of personnel in southern New Mexico is helping keep U.S. forces safe across the world.

Bahrain deported two American women Saturday accused of aiding anti-government activists after entering on tourist visas, officials and activists said.

A Syrian general was gunned down in the heart of the capital on Saturday, according to state media, as fresh violence flared in several cities and world powers mulled a way to halt the government's bloody offensive against civilians.

The Progress-Index reports that the Pentagon has named Maj. Gen. Larry D. Wyche to become commanding general of U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command and the Sustainment Center of Excellence at Fort Lee.

PINEVILLE, La., After serving for nearly a year in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 20 Soldiers from the Louisiana Army National Guard's 204th Theater Airfield Operations Group returned home this past week to ecstatic family and friends at Esler Airfield in Pineville.

CAMP PENDLETON - Crews worked Friday to contain a fire that blackened swaths of brushy open land on a firing range at Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps spokesman reported.

The U.S. Congress has approved the transfer of a second Coast Guard ship to the Philippines, an official said Friday as Washington shifts its military ties with the Southeast Asian nation that has been engaged in a territorial spat with China.

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is coming to the Pentagon on Friday as Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announces the name of the Navy's newest ship.

' Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the Marine Corps on Friday to re-investigate and take appropriate action against the Marine snipers who posed with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol.

A military jury on Thursday found a Hawaii-based Marine sergeant not guilty of hazing a lance corporal who later committed suicide in Afghanistan.