Military To Be Given Control Of Drone Strikes
Posted: 1:02 PM Under some new guidance on the use of drones by the U.S. government, the military has control of drone strikes outside of Pakistan and Yemen.
Posted: 1:02 PM Under some new guidance on the use of drones by the U.S. government, the military has control of drone strikes outside of Pakistan and Yemen.
Updated: 8:41 AM Leaders of the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley will honor fallen soldiers during Memorial Day observances at the northeast Kansas post.
Posted: 12:18 PM Kansas military officials are juggling schedules and changing plans to accommodate furloughs of more than 6,000 civilian employees because of federal budget cuts.
Updated: 8:56 AM An Army team is inspecting the cemetery at Fort Riley to verify that all service members buried there are properly identified and commemorated.
Updated: 7:19 PM The plan follows this week's decision by the Defense Department to proceed with federal furloughs amid budget shortfalls.
Posted: 9:08 AM Officials say one U.S. Navy sailor was killed and several others were hurt in a training exercise at Fort Knox in Kentucky.
Posted: 8:47 AM A new general is heading to Fort Riley next week to take command of the Army's 1st Infantry Division.
Updated: 10:23 AM The U.S. military says two American service members are among the 15 dead in a car bomb attack in Kabul.
Posted: 5:09 PM Around 1,100 full-time employees for the guard are affected
Updated: 9:18 AM NATO says four U.S. service personnel have been killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan's volatile south.
Updated: 8:27 AM The year's second Kansas Honor Flight is scheduled to take 24 World War II veterans and their guardians to Washington, D.C., where they will spend two days visiting various memorials.
Posted: 8:58 AM Kansas National Guard officials are marking a milestone for a unit that rebuilds tank engines for the U.S. military and foreign customers.
Posted: 4:52 AM Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he is ready to let the U.S. have nine bases in the country after the 2014 combat troop pullout, but wants Washington's "security and economic guarantees" first.
Posted: 4:45 AM Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is demanding details of turmoil at a North Dakota military base after revelations that an unprecedented 17 officers were removed from their duty of standing 24-hour watch over the Air Force's most powerful nuclear missiles.
Posted: 10:06 AM A House Republican and Democrat are pushing a bill that would strip the authority of military officers to overturn convictions for major offenses such as sexual assault.
Updated: 11:05 AM Air Force officials say the across-the-board spending cuts have led the service to cease operations for one third of the bomber and jet fighter force.
Posted: 10:15 AM U.S. officials say North Korea has removed a set of medium-range ballistic missiles that had been readied for possible test firing.
Updated: 9:45 AM The chairman of a Senate committee says the sexual battery arrest of the Air Force officer who led the branch's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit underscores how far the Defense Department has to go in addressing the plague of sexual crimes in the military.
Updated: 8:41 PM Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office was arrested and charged with sexual battery over the weekend in a D.C. suburb
Posted: 1:02 PM The KC-135 plane out of McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita crashed Friday afternoon about 100 miles west of the air base that the U.S. operates in Kyrgyzstan to support military operations in Afghanistan.
Updated: 12:35 PM Army Spec. Justin Cannon, of Peculiar, Mo., was sentenced to 50 years in prison with eligibility for parole for killing 24-year-old Michael Griggs of Raymore.
Posted: 9:29 AM Capt. Luca Carniel confirmed that the troops killed on Saturday were U.S. service members.
Updated: 6:23 AM The KC-135 plane crashed Friday afternoon about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of the air base that the U.S. operates in Kyrgyzstan to support military operations in Afghanistan.
