The Trump administration used $6.5B in R&D funds to pay troops. Future checks are uncertain amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Army Spc. Philip Charles VanDerHeyden IV confirmed on Wednesday, Oct. 15, he was paid overnight. "We get paid a day early at the Armed Forces Bank due to their ties with the (Department of Defense)," said VenDerHeyden, who serves with the U.S. Army Sustainment Command at Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed US military leaders to verify that every member of the department watched the speech he delivered at an unusual gathering of senior officers in Quantico, VA last month and review the policy changes he announced in the wake of that event,

The directive “feels like propaganda being forced down our throats,” said an enlisted person serving on active duty.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military anniversary celebration off Camp Pendleton's coast — where Navy ships are expected to fire over the freeway onto the base.

At least one US military strike in the Caribbean over the last two months targeted Colombian nationals on a boat that had left from Colombia, according to two people briefed by the Pentagon about the strikes.

A U.S. Marine says his parents were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after they visited a California military base and one of them was later deported.

He finds respect from a group of people that he never would’ve thought it was possible from,” actor Miles Heizer says of his “Boots” character.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would consider allowing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume military action in Gaza if Hamas refuses to uphold its end of the ceasefire deal, telling CNN that Israeli forces could return to the streets “as soon as I say the word.”

Uwe Horstmann becomes first chief executive of Stark, a German start-up backed by investors including Peter Thiel

Germany on Wednesday pledged more than $2 billion in military aid for Ukraine, as the government in Kyiv signaled that it would need $120 billion in 2026 to stave off Russia's nearly four-year all-out war.