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The next few years will be rife with uncertainty for manpower planners and Marines in uniform. Current drawdown plans, which take across-the-board budget cuts into account, call for the service to shrink to 174,000 by the end of 2017.

ABOARD THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP AMERICA, South Pacific - Several generations of Marine aviation idled just yards apart aboard the Navy's newest warship during its recent cruise around South America toward its home port in California.

President Obama is 'obviously concerned' about a weekend White House breach by an ex-soldier with a small knife who scaled a fence, sprinted across the lawn and entered the mansion before being arrested, a spokesman says.

When you're 30, the first day of school can feel a lot like every other day.

The destroyer Mitscher departed Monday morning on what's slated to be an eight-month deployment to 5th Fleet. There, the crew will provide security operations and ballistic missile defense along with the Carl Vinson carrier strike group.

The USS Mitscher is preparing to leave Virginia on a deployment to the Middle East.

The cruiser Vella Gulf returned to Norfolk, Va. Saturday with plenty of sea stories to share from their six-month deployment.

A Fort Bliss soldier was charged with capital murder after he fatally beat his 2-year-old daughter with a belt because she soiled her diaper, according to West Texas police.

Retired Sgt. Maj. Louis DiNatale, charged with unauthorized possession of a weapon at the Canadian border last year, has been found not guilty by a Canadian court, his lawyer said Monday.

A wave of suicide bombings by Islamic State militants in western Iraq has killed 40 soldiers amid waning efforts by security forces to retake territory from the Sunni extremist group, a senior Iraqi commander said Monday.

President Barack Obama's Mideast war strategy isn't in the clear yet as far as Congress is concerned.

Three senior Afghan military officers who failed to return to a U.S. training base in Cape Cod have been taken into custody while trying to cross into Canada, according to news reports.

A Missouri drill sergeant charged with sexually assaulting eight female soldiers pleaded guilty Monday to three charges at the outset of his court-martial.

Army Master Sgt. Kerensa Crum wasn't expecting much when she walked into an early screening of 'Fort Bliss,' a new movie about the struggles of a single mom in the military.

The Army's new vice chief expects in 2016 that sequestration will once again rear its ugly head, and that means thousands more force-cuts in the service.

The head of Syria's main Western-backed opposition group on Thursday called for immediate U.S. airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group in Syria, saying urgent action was required 'to avert catastrophe.'

The Navy has published the results of special and general courts-martial tried in August - 23 verdicts in all. The cases, by the region in which they were tried:

Adm. Harry Harris is the president's pick for the next head of U.S. Pacific Command, according to a Monday release from the Defense Department.

Over the past half-dozen years, sailors and Marines have borne the brunt of longer and longer deployments. Now, for the first time, they'll start getting paid for it after 220 deployed days.

White House fence jumper Omar Gonzalez, arrested Saturday with a folding knife in his pocket, had a car packed with more than 800 rounds of ammunition parked a few blocks away, a prosecutor said Monday in federal court.

Future in doubt: Uncertainty and smaller budgets plague the Corps

'Complete transformation' awaits Marine aviation in 2015

White House security changes weighed

Tuition discount offered to lure adults back to college

Mitscher deploys for 5th Fleet

USS Mitscher to deploy to Middle East

Cruiser Vella Gulf returns from action-packed cruise

Police: Bliss solider beat 2-year-old daughter to death

Retired sgt. maj. found not guilty of gun charges in Canada

Islamic State militants kill 40 Iraqi troops

Syria vote isn't last word from Congress on war

Reports: 3 missing Afghan soldiers detained at Canadian border

Fort Leonard Wood drill sergeant pleads guilty to sex assaults

For single moms in uniform, 'Fort Bliss' movie shows costs and rewards

New Army vice chief expects worse manpower conditions

Syrian opposition chief urges airstrikes in Syria

Verdicts in August courts-martial

Harris tapped to lead PACOM

Cruise pay approved

Prosecutor: White House fence jumper is 'a danger to the president'