The Marine Corps officially designated GenAI.mil as its preferred large language model platform this week, a move that largely distances the service from older AI systems that are owned and operated by other branches of the military.
In a force-wide message published Wednesday, the Corps said GenAI.mil — the Pentagon’s recently launched hub for commercial large language models — is authorized for all Marines, civilians and contractors to use.
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If the M60 machine gun was the jealous, high-maintenance spouse whose father pushed that shotgun wedding, the M72 Light Anti-Tank Weapon (LAW) was the reckless fling you prayed would answer your call when things got desperate at 2 AM.
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It didn’t demand a complex emotional relationship. It asked for nothing. It simply lived quietly on your rucksack, a waterproof tube of zen, waiting for the one specific moment when your patrol ran into something that 5.56mm rounds couldn’t solve.
Soldiers on opposing teams don’t usually train together for a competition, and they certainly don’t get the opportunity to use their French bulldog to help them prep. That’s probably because, in most cases, they’re not married and serving as combat medics.
During late-night training sessions at home, Sgts. Caleb and Kaitlin Flynn used their pet dog to get in some reps and sets for canine casualty care — one of the events that soldiers compete in during the annual competition.
Soldiers assigned to Hawaii have been told they might be “doubled up” in their barracks for at least 15 months, or even longer.
In a town hall with soldiers in Hawaii, an Army commander said officials will have little choice but to keep some soldiers doubled up in barracks rooms as the Army increases the number of troops assigned to Hawaii. Virtually all junior soldiers live on base in Hawaii due to the state’s sky-high cost of living.
U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii Commander Col.
How will the UK salvage the rolling catastrophe that has been the British Army’s Ajax infantry fighting vehicle?
Rolls-Royce has secured orders to supply 350 maximum transmission unit (mtu) 199 series engines for Boxer armoured wheeled vehicles intended for the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) as well as other international customers.
BAE Systems has secured a contract from the US Army to manufacture 40 additional M109A7 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzer sets.
In October 2025, FN announced it was ending production of the iconic SCAR, a rifle made famous by its use by Special Operations Forces during the Global War on Terror. This left the firearms community wondering what FN would replace the SCAR with; maybe a new rifle for a military contract?
Turns out, news of the SCAR’s death was greatly exaggerated. On January 15, 2026, FN announced the next generation of the SCAR.
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No, that’s literally what they’ve called it. It’s not the SCAR-2, SCAR Mk2, or even SCAR-NG.
The 101st Airborne Division paused a major field exercise Wednesday night as military bases across the Midwest and on the Atlantic coast began bracing for a historic winter storm this weekend. Crews at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, began trimming trees on base in anticipation of ice storms, and bases from Missouri to South Carolina stood up various emergency teams with leaders of on-base emergency, medical and utilities.
France’s DGA has delivered 30 SERVAL vehicles to the Army under its SCORPION programme for new generation armoured vehicles.