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Jeff Sprekelmeyer, carrying an American and U.S. Marine Corps flag joins other participants, including area first responders, during the Sons of the Flag's second annual Climb for a Calling stair climb Sunday at Burnett Plaza in Fort Worth. Honor Guard members from several departments including Grapevine, North Richland Hills and Flower Mound fire departments open the ceremony for the Sons of the Flag's second annual Climb for a Calling stair climb at Burnett Park in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, Sept.
Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image from video taken by a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft provided by the United States Navy May 21,... China and Russia will hold eight days of naval drills in the South China Sea off southern China's Guangdong province starting from Monday, China's navy said. The exercises come at a time of heightened tension in the contested waters after an arbitration court in The Hague ruled in July that China did not have historic rights to the South China Sea and criticized its environmental destruction there.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, left; his Republican challenger Darryl Glenn; and Lily Tang Williams, a Libertarian, debate Saturday at the Club 20 Fall Conference at Two Rivers Convention Center in Grand Junction. About 500 people attended the event.
The United States and Russia, two former Cold War foes that have brokered a ceasefire deal for Syria, rely mostly on air raids in their separate military campaigns in the war-wracked country. Here are key points about how these two powers are trying to fulfill their military objectives in Syria, where a bloody civil war has raged since 2011.
Chelsea Manning began a hunger strike Friday at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she is serving a 35-year sentence for the leaking of hundreds of thousands of classified documents. Manning is seeking written assurances from the Army that she will receive the medical treatments for her gender dysphoria beyond the hormone treatment she began in early 2015.
Donald Trump's recent gains in some polls in the Middle West and Florida may prove to be a transient phenomenon if the Republican nominee's pro-Russian, anti-NATO stance is hammered home to the regions' large communities of Eastern and Northern European heritage. The ethnic vote in several battleground states could be decisive in a close election.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov look toward one another during a press conference following their meeting in Geneva where they discussed the crisis in Syria on September 9, 2016. AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI Geneva: The United States and Russia reached a deal on a new Syrian ceasefire Friday, which, if it holds, could see the first joint military effort by the two powers against Islamic jihadists.
Retired U.S. Navy Senior Chief Joe Pelly, who survived al-Qaida's 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole warship, talks to reporters at Camp Justice on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 after resumption of case hearings at the U.S. Navy base at GuantA namo Bay, Cuba.
The last neighborhood the Coast Guard built on the island was Aviation Hill between the late 1990s and 2003, said U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Brian Chambers, who heads the personnel department.
The US Coast Guard on Thursday suspended its search for a woman who fell overboard from a Carnival cruise ship the day before, according to a news release. While witnesses said they saw her fall off the 11th deck of the Carnival Ecstasy at 2:30 a.m., the cruise ship company released a statement saying she was "witnessed jumping overboard."
On September 7, at the Union League in Philadelphia, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gave a major policy speech on defense matters. In it, he proposed force levels for the military services, citing recommendations made in The Heritage Foundation's "2016 Index of U.S. Military Strength .
An Air Force veteran who asked Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a question during NBC's Wednesday presidential forum says she was disappointed by Clinton's response, saying it avoided answering her question. "Secretary Clinton, to your point, you have had an extensive record with military intervention," said Pam Campos , an undecided Democratic voter.
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday laid out his hawkish defense plan which would allow the spending of billions of extra U.S. dollars to expand every branch of the military, pledging an end to mandatory budget caps. "As soon as I take office, I will ask Congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military," Trump said at a rally in Philadelphia.
Authorities searched in the Bahamas for a U.S. citizen who went overboard from a cruise ship before dawn Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard said the 32-year-old woman reportedly fell from the 11th deck of the Carnival Ecstasy as the ship passed near the island of Grand Bahama.
One of the performing Thunderbirds crashed south of the Colorado Springs airport after the annual graduation show on Thursday, June 2, 2016. The pilot was able to eject safely from the jet.
So began the homestretch to Election Day, as both candidates on Tuesday put national security squarely at the center of the 2016 campaign in the belief that it gives them the advantage. Trump began by unveiling a list of 88 retired military leaders endorsing his candidacy, including four four-star generals and 14 three-star flag officers.
Officials for Marine Week say a bus carrying about 40 Marines to the Nashville event has caught fire along Interstate 24. No one was injured. The Marine Week public affairs office says in a news release that the Marines safely got off the bus Monday following the fire near the southeastern Tennessee community of Monteagle.
While Donald Trump sends millions of Americans fleeing the GOP, Hillary Clinton scoops up more endorsements of the type Republican nominees usually enjoy. The Clinton camp announced endorsements from two retired four-star generals, Bob Sennewald and David Maddox .