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The Navy stopped a maritime drone test early and urgently requested support from the Coast Guard and local harbor patrol agents to help rescue a participating tugboat captain from waters off the California coast last week, multiple sources told DefenseScoop.
Navy officials revealed earlier this year that the sea service would be expanding operational tests and other deployments of small unmanned vessels around Naval Base Ventura County and the Ventura and Channel Islands harbors between April and August.
“An incident occurred at approximately 3:28 p.m.

The Army’s fiscal 2026 budget request calls for several key investments in new programs and ongoing efforts aimed at protecting forces from enemy electronic warfare capabilities.
After divesting of much of its EW tool set following the Cold War, the Army has sought to rebuild its arsenal and tactics within the spectrum. That includes the gamut of electromagnetic spectrum operations such as electronic attack, or jamming, electronic support, or sensing the environment for enemy signals, and electronic protect, or guarding friendly systems and units from enemy jamming.

Roughly 400 Marines are being sent to Los Angeles to replace the 700 already there, Task & Purpose confirmed Tuesday, while 150 California National Guardsmen will be sent home. As the new Marines arrive, Marines who have been in Los Angeles for most of June will rotate out. Like those they are replacing, the 400 Marines are based at the Marine Corps’ major training base in Twentynice Palms, California.
The 400 Marines are from the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division will deploy to Los Angeles, according to a statement posted to the U.S.

Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Carlos Ruiz was just doing what many senior enlisted Marines do: Looking out for uniform standards. Instead, he stepped into a hornet’s nest.
In a since-deleted Instagram post, Ruiz used an old picture to make a point about uniform standards, blurring out the face of a soldier wearing a medal-strewn, World War II-era uniform.
“Uniform standards have entered the group chat!” Ruiz wrote on two slides. “Exhibit A: This is what it looks like when we don’t have a standard. Make sure to check out MCO 1020.

There are a significant number of Americans who believe the best military job for the next world war is to be on the front line, fighting in Iran, China, or by some weird twist of fate, Iraq again. And let’s be clear: we love those guys. We don’t know exactly where we would be without them, but we’re pretty sure there would be tea, mushy peas, and an extra, unnecessary letter’ U’ in a lot of words.
For the rest of us, the best job in a war is one that might see us through the war.

The US Army is looking beyond the in-service M1A2 main battle tank to a new platform potentially fielded in the 2030s.

Frank S. Wright has lived a life. At 16, as World War II raged, he lied about his age and joined the Marine Corps, entering into the ranks of legends as a Marine Raider in the Pacific. He fought at Guadalcanal. He was bayonetted in the stomach while liberating Guam. He was shot in the chest and arm at the Battle of Iwo Jima. 
Now Wright has a request: He wants 100,000 birthday cards when he turns 100 on July 5.
“I’d like to have the children know more about World War II,” Wright told Task & Purpose recently. “This makes the teachers begin to talk to them about it.

On June 24 and 25, NATO leaders met in The Hague for a summit, where they focused much of their attention on increasing defense spending to 5 percent of GDP annually and on affirming unity among the allies — notably working to ensure that U.S. President Donald Trump, who raised significant questions about the value of the NATO alliance during his first term as president, remained within the fold. The gathering took place immediately after a ceasefire between Israel and Iran took effect and amidst ongoing war in Gaza and between Ukraine and Russia.

U.S. Cyber Command is requesting a hefty increase of funds compared to previous plans to support Indo-Pacific Command’s network sensing and defense, data feeds and analytic resources, among other capabilities, according to newly released fiscal 2026 budget documents.
The command’s research-and-development budget proposal includes $117.2 million under a portfolio called “Data and Sensors.” In last year’s budget release, the command anticipated spending just $20.8 million in FY26 in the future years defense program for that same portfolio.

Your civvie bestie arrives just in time for your monthly commissary run. Of course she does. It’s the 14th, but to her, it’s just another day. To you, it means the aisles will be full, the bagger line will be long, and the prices might be nudged just slightly higher. It’s payday.
She emerges from the guest room in a cute matching set that would be perfect for the gym—and all wrong for the commissary.
You sigh. Okay, you tell her. We’re doing something weird today. Not bad. Just… very military. You’re going to need to change.