The United States has reached a settlement that will resolve its suit filed on behalf of retired Army service member King A. Gatten against Knight Protective Service Inc. The department’s complaint, filed in September 2009, alleges that Knight willfully violated the Uniformed Services Employment a...   MORE>>

SAN DIEGO—U.S. Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced today the unsealing of a 25-count indictment charging six individuals with corruption and fraud charges related to defense contracting at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), a government organization based in San Diego that is respons...   MORE>>

WASHINGTON – A federal jury that convicted Steven D. Green, a former Ft. Campbell, Ky., soldier of charges arising out of the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl and her family today said it was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether the defendant should be sentence...   MORE>>

WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today charging Robert Young, 56, a former captain in the U.S. Army, and Robert Jeffery, 55, a former master chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy, with conspiracy and theft of government property in connection with a scheme to stea...   MORE>>

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy subcontractor from Virginia has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Navy in connection with contracts for fabricated metal to be used for the repair and maintenance of elevator equipment on Navy aircraft carriers and support vessels, the Department of Justice annou...   MORE>>

WASHINGTON, May 21, 2009 – Less than a month after the sentencing of five defendants found guilty in a terror plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., authorities say they have foiled another terrorist plot against an Air National Guard base and a synagogue and Jewish community center in New York....   MORE>>

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2009 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed seven militants and detained another during operations in Afghanistan over the past two days, military officials said.

In a joint operation this morning, militants fired small-arms, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at comb...   MORE>>

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2009 – Iraqi and coalition forces found a weapons cache and detained six suspects in operations in Iraq the week of May 11.

On May 16, U.S. soldiers and Ameriyah police officers found the weapons stockpile in northern Baghdad’s Muhalla district.

The cache, containing ...   MORE>>

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2009 – President Barack Obama signed and issued a proclamation yesterday designating tomorrow as Armed Forces Day.

Here is the presidential proclamation:

On Armed Forces Day, 1961, President Kennedy connected civic engagement and our Natio...   MORE>>

ABOARD USS GETTYSBURG AT SEA, May 14, 2009 – Ships from Combined Task Force 151 prevented a piracy attack in the Gulf of Aden, which resulted in the apprehension of more than a dozen suspected pirates aboard an alleged "mothership" yesterday.

The South Korean destroyer ROKS Munmu the Great and...   MORE>>