John Kirby

>> 20 Years Ago — Woman may be sharing the glory of flying those supersonic jets in a precision pattern with the Navy elite flying team, the Blue Angels, now doing their annual winter training at Naval Air Facility El Centro. The glory for women...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two U.S. Marines will be court martialed over their alleged involvement in a video showing troops urinating on dead Taliban fighters and posing for pictures with casualties. The Marine Corps announced the criminal charges Monday...

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a statement that he welcomed Pakistan's decision to open the ground routes....

WASHINGTON (AP)— Last summer, gays in the military dared not acknowledge their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking June as gay pride month just as it has marked other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups....

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton charged Tuesday that Russia is sending military attack helicopters to Syria, and warned that the move could escalate the 15-month-old conflict “quite dramatically.”...

In an escalation of America’s clandestine war in Yemen, a small contingent of U.S. troops is providing targeting data for Yemeni airstrikes as government forces battle to dislodge Al Qaeda militants and other insurgents in the country’s...

U.S. and NATO soldiers have been ordered to take extraordinary precautions against being shot by Afghan troops, including designating “guardian angels” to keep watch at joint bases around the clock, according to a senior military official....

Each team scored a flurry of goals in the third period, but the hosts could not quite catch up as the Austin Bruins dealt the Aberdeen Wings a 5-4 North American Hockey League setback Saturday at the Odde Ice Center. Leading 2-1 after two periods, the...

Abused and neglected children often wind up in foster care, and while they're given love and comfort by their foster families, they also often need someone to watch over facets of their lives. In a swearing-in ceremony at Towson's Historic Courthouse...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has promised Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai a full investigation of an Internet video that purports to depict four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters -- a video both men...

A number of websites including TMZ and YouTube posted a video Wednesday showing four men dressed in U.S. Marine Corps combat gear urinating on the apparently dead bodies of three men sprawled on the ground in front of them. One of the men says, "Have a...