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The U.S. Naval Academy has charged three Navy football players with sexually assaulting a female midshipman more than a year ago.

The U.S. Naval Academy on Wednesday charged three Navy football players with sexually assaulting a female midshipman at an off-campus house more than a year ago.

Even as U.S. military officials privately maintain there are no immediate plans for action against the Syrian regime, the American presence next door in Jordan is quietly growing as is an increased U.S. military capability to defend that nation.

Senators sought cost-cutting opportunities Wednesday in the Pentagon's $400 billion program for the next-generation F-35, a fighter jet with a troubled testing record that military leaders said America couldn't afford not to build.

Army football fans won't have to wait until fall to see if they can break their long dry spell in... Forty pregnant military wives, whose spouses are on deployment from the Navy's submarine base in Groton or the Connecticut Army National Guard, were the guests of honor Tuesday at the 'Operation Shower' luncheon.

The USS Hawaii moors at Pier 13 on Tuesday at Yokosuka Naval Base, the first port stop of the fast-attack sub's Western Pacific deployment.

The flag over a war crimes courtroom in Camp Justice at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in this photo reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense on October 17, 2012, day three of pre-trial hearings for the five Guantanamo prisoners accused of orchestrating the 9/11.

The Pentagon unveiled plans Tuesday for fully integrating women into front-line and special combat roles, including elite forces such as Army Rangers and Navy SEALs.

For the third time in as many years, voters are being called to the polls next Tuesday to choose a new U.S. senator, with Republican and former Navy SEAL turned private equity investor Gabriel E. Gomez facing veteran Democrat U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey.

"The issue with PTSD is that so many Marines and sailors are not diagnosed or seeking treatment," said Jim Askins, the department head of health promotions.

Thirty-five years after selecting its first class of space shuttle astronauts in 1978 - the 'Thirty-Five New Guys' - NASA on Monday introduced the four men and four women who make up the Astronaut Class of 2013.

The Kentucky long rifle was effectively used as a sniping weapon during the Revolutionary War - allowing colonial soldiers to pick off officers at range due to its rifling and superior accuracy.

Monday's announcement came on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first American woman in space, Sally Ride.

As someone angry over government fraud and waste, I can understand the need for our elected leaders to tighten their financial belts when it some to spending our money.

Col. Nathan Jorgensen will be the featured military career speaker at 6 pm on June 20 at the meeting of the Civil Air Patrol Highlanders Cadet Squadron.

The federal government is putting a former Coast Guard cutter up for auction after efforts to send it to a museum in Juneau failed.

The superintendent of the Naval Academy has decided to bring charges in the alleged sexual assault of a female midshipman last year by three members of the football team, academy officials said Monday.

In this pool photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, the self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, wearing a camouflage jacket and white turban, is seen during a break in the pretrial hearings at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday, June 17, 2013.

Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations forces.

Attorneys for former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura asked a federal judge Monday to allow his defamation lawsuit against slain "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle to go forward with Kyle's widow as the defendant.