Budget documents released by the U.S. Air Force have revealed that U.S. Armed Forces personnel deployed to war zones are likely see their special pay doubled in Fiscal Year 2027. Personnel deployed in designated combat zones currently receive up to $225 per month in imminent danger pay or hostile fire pay, with this figure set to double to $450 each month later should Congress approve a spending increase. This decision follows widespread concerns regarding flagging morale among frontline personnel, particularly after U.S.
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The U.S. will withdraw as many at 5,000 service members from bases in Germany, the Department of Defense announced late Friday afternoon.
The reduction of troops comes after diplomatic tensions between the United States and Germany. The order to pull some personnel was given by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement.
“This decision follows a thorough review of the Department’s force posture in Europe and is in recognition of theater requirements and conditions on the ground,” Parnell’s statement continued.
The Malian Armed Force have regained control of the key city of Menakain the north of the country, after pushing Western-backed Islamist insurgent groups to withdraw. The insurgents seized the city as part of offensives launched on April 25, causing considerable losses among government forces, with coordinated attacks having included a successful assassination of Defence Minister General Sadio Camara in a suicide bombing attack on his residence.
U.S. Army Sgt. Elisa Barrios, a military police officer assigned to the 92nd Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, checks that a warehouse door is locked while conducting after-hours security checks at Ammunition Depot Europe–Miesau, Germany, Feb. 21, 2026. Public Domain
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In a huge late in the day Friday development, the Trump administration plans to pull some 5,000 troops from NATO member Germany, CBS is reporting.
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The Marine Corps is rebooting how it trains Reconnaissance Marines, with an overhaul of the program’s notoriously tough training curriculum.
Marines who wish to serve as part of a scout or reconnaissance team will no longer go to a 12-week Basic Recon Course, instead will need to complete two new courses: the Ground Reconnaissance Course and the Amphibious Reconnaissance Course. The first now serves as the initial part of the training curriculum, and its first class reported on Monday, April 27.
Weeks after A-10s helped save two downed aviators behind Iranian lines, the Warthog community capped off the month with a third rescue: a 73-year-old Florida man who fell off his boat.
The rescue came as two A-10s from the 74th Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia were training over the Avon Park, Florida bombing range and received a call from local authorities to deconflict nearby airspace as part of an ongoing search. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office was using patrol craft, helicopters and even drones to scour the nearly 4,000-acre Lake Arbuckle for a distressed boater.
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Eight major U.S. technology companies have signed formal agreements to deploy their frontier AI capabilities on the Defense Department’s classified networks “for lawful operational use,” according to a Pentagon press release published Friday.
DOD’s new deals with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle follow a major contract dispute between the department and Anthropic that culminated earlier this year over potential ethical constraints that accompany the use of AI in warfare and for national surveillance.
Insiders with access to U.S. military war plans may be placing many more bets on real-world operations than previously understood, a team of researchers said Thursday.
Researchers studying betting patterns on the Polymarket prediction site found that nearly 52% of “longshot” bets placed on recent U.S. military actions were correct and paid off handsomely to unknown bettors. Similar bets on “political” topics have about a 14% success rate on the site, the team said. That success rate, researchers say, suggests that insiders were behind at least some of the bets.