Seven decades after a teenage U.S. Marine fell in combat in World War II, the Detroit native finally is back home, thanks to scientific advancements than made identifying his remains possible.

Nearly 60,000 veterans were triple dippers last year, drawing a total of $3.5 billion in military retirement pay plus veterans and Social Security disability benefits at the same time, congressional auditors report.

A top Department of Veterans Affairs official and a White House appointee successfully pressed for changes in an inspector general’s report on the Phoenix VA medical center.

The U.S. Air Force’s new commander in the Pacific said Saturday she’s hoping to continue talks with China on avoiding dangerous encounters in the air that have added to regional tensions.

War was the leading cause of death in the military nearly every year between 2004 and 2011 until suicides became the top means of dying for troops in 2012 and 2013, according to a bar chart published this week in a monthly Pentagon medical statistical ana

An estimated 3,000 people marched in Hartford and thousands more lined the streets in what’s billed as New England’s largest veterans’ parade.

Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 Iraqi tribesmen, women and children Sunday, officials said, the latest mass slaying by militants who have killed some 150 members of the tribe in recent days.

For the group of airmen selected to test the Air Force’s next generation tanker, the assignment is bigger than once in a career.

Four Utah National Guard soldiers are being disciplined for their unauthorized involvement and use of military vehicles in a risque video featuring bikini-clad women firing high-powered weapons and riding in tanks.

From singing in a nine-person ‘mini-choir’ made up entirely of her brothers and sisters to belting out Martina McBride songs on a karaoke machine at Iraq’s Camp Liberty to winning an Armywide talent contest, Sgt.