St. Petersburg, Florida – Chip Diehl's life forms a circle. He was born on MacDill Air Force Base and came back to command the base in 2001. Now, the retired…
TAMPA — The fight against the brutal Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has landed at MacDill Air Force Base this week. U.S. Central Command, which is headquartered at MacDill,…
Officials at Headquarters Marine Corps are drafting an unfunded "wish list" of equipment and programs to submit to Congress, a Marine spokesman confirmed Thursday. An unfunded pri…
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has called for reviews of the F-35 and Air Force One replaceme…
The military has tested a new commercial communications satellite system by that potentially offers 300 times the bandwidth of current&n…
Military retirement reform is among the most dramatic changes to Pentagon policy in the annual defense authorization bill. It also should be one of the easiest issues for House and…
Starting Aug. 1, troops and families will find a more user-friendly online resource when they visit Military OneSource.mil. Information will be easier to find, and more relevant to the need…
Members of the Florida Defense Support Task Force (FDSTF), a legislatively mandated council, were welcomed aboard NAS Jacksonville July 31 by Community Planning Liaison Officer Matt Schellhorn. The group came…
The military services are already beginning to recruit women for combat jobs, including as Navy SEALs, and could see them serving in previously male-only Army and Marine Corps infantry…
The F-35 Lightning II is one of the most complicated weapons systems ever developed, a sleek and stealthy fighter jet years in the making that is often called a flying…