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US military spent $6B in 3 years to recruit, retain troops

May 31, 2025 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members in what has been a growing campaign to counter enlistment shortfalls. The financial […]

NC produces over 50 MLB picks

August 2, 2024 Shawn Krest

Major League Baseball reached out to its next generation of players with the 20-round MLB Draft, last week in Texas. As we reported last week, Wake Forest took center stage in the first round, with […]

Pentagon debuts its new stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider

December 9, 2022 Tara Copp, Associated Press

PALMDALE, Calif. — America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber made its debut Friday after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China. The B-21 […]

US Air Force targeted in ‘propaganda attack’ in Kuwait

August 25, 2022 The Associated Press

BAGHDAD — The U.S. Air Force said it was the subject of a “propaganda attack” by a previously unheard-of Iraqi militant group that falsely claimed it had launched a drone attack targeting American troops at an […]

Air Force discharges 27 for refusal to get COVID vaccine

December 14, 2021 Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Air Force has discharged 27 people for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, making them what officials believe are the first service members to be removed for disobeying the mandate to […]

COVID vaccines to be required for military under new US plan

August 10, 2021 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of the U.S. military will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine beginning next month under a plan laid out by the Pentagon Monday and endorsed by President Joe Biden. In […]

Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dies at 97

December 8, 2020 The Associated Press

Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the “right stuff” when in 1947 he became the first person to […]

N.C. military bases brace for Florence

September 12, 2018 admin

RICHMOND, Va. — The Navy is moving people and ships ahead of Hurricane Florence , and the Air Force and Army are both flying advanced aircraft elsewhere as a safeguard. Some remaining Marines, meanwhile, are […]

NC man among WWII Airmen to be honored today

May 30, 2016 admin

SARASOTA, Fla. Six World War II Army Air Corp airmen, who died in a B-26 Marauder training crash on Nov. 16, 1942, will be recognized today. Nearly 74 years after the tragic event unfolded […]