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Royal New Zealand Navy vessel HMNZS "Manawanui" runs aground off the coast of Samoa before catching fire and later capsizing. All 75 crew members are evacuated onto lifeboats and rescued. It is the first loss of a New Zealand naval ship at sea since World War II.
2024-10-5

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby announces that the Pentagon will deploy 3,000 troops to Eastern Europe in order to defend its allies and counter Russian aggression against Ukraine.
2022-02-2

A Department of Defense report presented to the United States Congress estimates at 499 the number of civilian deaths in US military actions during the year 2017, with more than 450 reports remaining to be assessed. The casualties occurred in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen.
2018-06-1

A search team led by Paul Allen's company Vulcan, Inc., using his research vessel "Petrel", announces the discovery of the wreck of the USS "Lexington" (CV-2) about 800 km off the eastern coast of Australia at a depth of around 3 km. The aircraft carrier was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea during World War II.
2018-03-5

Over 70,000 people are evacuated from Thessaloniki, Greece, as authorities attempt to defuse a World War II-era unexploded ordnance, which was discovered last week.
2017-02-11

A Defense Department audit reveals that the United States Army had manipulated its finances, making $6.5 trillion of improper accounting adjustments in order to balance the books in 2015.
2016-08-19

The United States Army approves 22 soldiers requests to become the service's first female infantry and armor unit officers. Thirteen women will enter the armor branch, and nine others will enter infantry as second lieutenants.
2016-04-16

The United States Department of Defense authorizes the U.S. Army to destroy a large U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons.
2015-03-18

The United States Department of Defense calls back 350,000 of its furloughed civilian workers.
2013-10-5

A bomb kills eight people in Afghanistan's Wardak Province, including three United States Army soldiers, four Afghan National Army soldiers and an Afghan interpreter.
2013-07-23