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Soldados estadounidenses levantan sus manos durante una ceremonia de naturalización en Camp Victory, en Irak, en 2007. El Pentágono comenzará a enviar a entrenamiento a miles de titulares de tarjetas verdes reclutados, suspendiendo así una política de la administración Trump (Ali Al-Saadi / Getty Images).

Pentágono dará luz verde a entrenar reclutas con tarjeta verde, después de perder batalla legal

May 15, 2019 at 11:34 a.m.

El Pentágono comenzará a enviar a entrenamiento a miles de titulares de tarjetas verdes reclutados, suspendiendo una política adoptada por la administración Trump en 2017 que exigía verificaciones de antecedentes...

Central American migrants traveling with a caravan to the U.S. climb onto to a trailer bed, hitching a ride to Pijijiapan, Mexico.

Trump prepara un plan para cerrar la frontera a los migrantes centroamericanos y desplegar tropas

May 15, 2019 at 11:31 a.m.

Preocupado por la caravana de migrantes que se dirige al norte a través de México, el presidente Donald Trump está considerando un plan para cerrar la frontera a los migrantes...

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis answers questions while speaking at the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental in Mountain View, Calif., on Aug. 10, 2017. Mattis left the door open Monday to some transgender service members continuing to serve in the U.S. military.

Mattis leaves door open to some transgender service, says Pentagon is still studying issue

August 22, 2019 at 12:30 a.m.

Mattis, speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, said he and his staff are still studying the issue, including how having transgender service members affects other members of their units. The...

A Russian Sukhoi Su-27 jet, several of which are seen here during an air show in St. Petersburg, flew within feet of a U.S. reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea June 19, 2017.

Russian jet came within feet of U.S. reconnaissance plane, Pentagon says

August 21, 2019 at 11:49 p.m.

A Russian fighter jet came "within several feet" of an Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea and lingered by the side of the U.S. plane for several...

The superintendent of West Point says football coach Jeff Monken asking an assistant to lead a postgame prayer has raised "valid concerns."

Top West Point general: ‘Valid concerns’ raised about prayer after Army game

June 12, 2018 at 7:27 a.m.

The top general at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., said that "valid concerns" about separation of church and state were raised by people who questioned why the...

Search-and-rescue effort launched for missing Navy ship sailor

June 22, 2019 at 7:18 p.m.

Navy and Coast Guard personnel are searching for a U.S. sailor who went missing from an amphibious ship off the coast of North Carolina, Navy officials said Sunday. The sailor...

Seal Team 6 member to receive Medal of Honor

May 17, 2019 at 10:27 p.m.

In the darkness of a single-room building in Afghanistan, Navy Senior Chief Edward C. Byers Jr. had little time to react: A fellow Navy SEAL had just been shot in...

Students and teachers cheer for participants in the Soldier Ride staged by Wounded Warrior Project in Key West, Fla., on Jan. 8, 2016.

Wounded Warrior Project promises review amid spending scrutiny

June 23, 2019 at 5:13 a.m.

Wounded Warrior Project, one of the nation's largest veterans-oriented charities, promised a "thorough financial and policy review" on Monday after several investigative stories last week raised concerns about it spending...

U.S. Army Maj. Lisa Jaster is congratulated by her children after graduating from the Army's Ranger School at Fort Benning, Ga., last October; she will be President Obama's guest at the upcoming State of the Union address.

Lisa Jaster, once a ‘unicorn’ at Army Ranger School, will attend State of the Union address

May 17, 2019 at 9:16 p.m.

Over six months of training at the Army's famously difficult Ranger School, Maj. Lisa Jaster grew to realize something, she said: She was the unicorn. The engineer officer was one...

Bowe Bergdahl to face most serious kind of court-martial in Army desertion case

August 21, 2019 at 6:05 p.m.

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face general court-martial in connection with his 2009 disappearance from his base in Afghanistan, the service announced on Monday, raising the possibility that the soldier...

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