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A defense bill authorizing Pentagon spending and activities could allow members of the military to sue the Pentagon for medical malpractice.

First Lady Melania Trump joined Second Lady Karen Pence on Monday in a visit to Fort Bragg, North Carolina where the pair visited American troops and their families.

Shanahan said Friday that he expects there will be more U.S. troops to deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border, as the situation there worsens.

President Donald Trump promised Tuesday to keep a flood of migrants from the southern border by sending in more military forces.

President Trump has always shown a fondness for the military rank-and-file, often saluting the Marines who man Marine One.

Actor Milo Ventimiglia spent the holidays overseas with the troops this year, flying along with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford as part of the 15th annual USO holiday tour.

NBC News has finally, a full day after being called out for printing the fake news, admitted that its article published on Christmas alleging President Donald Trump snubbed the troops during the holidays this year is incorrect.

NBC News and a variety of other media outlets falsely reported that President Donald Trump did not visit U.S. troops in a combat zone during Christmastime.

“Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East, getting NOTHING but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost all cases, do not appreciate what we are doing?” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Do we want to be there forever?”

The U.S. and the Afghan Taliban focused their two-day round of peace negotiations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week on ending the more than 17-year-old American military presence in Afghanistan, a long-stated goal of the terrorist group, a spokesman for the jihadi organization stressed.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro warned on Monday that U.S. and allied troops “will not make it out alive” if they invade the country.

The Pentagon will extend the troop deployment at the southwest border with Mexico through the end of January based on a request from DHS.

Troops deployed around the world, including in war zones, took a moment’s respite from their daily efforts to keep America safe to film Thanksgiving greetings for family and friends back home in videos posted by the Pentagon.

President Donald Trump has given Defense Secretary Jim Mattis the authority to allow troops at the Southwest border to perform “military protective activities” he deems necessary to protect troops and border patrol agents, according to a White House memo viewed by Breitbart News.

U.S. troops will start heading home from their mission supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents on the Southwest border this week, just as migrants are beginning to arrive, according to a report by Politico.

The Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency has worked for months get Thanksgiving meals sent to U.S. troops serving overseas and at the Southwest border this Thanksgiving holiday. 

Venezuela’s defense minister announced Monday that he had ordered additional troops to the Colombian border after alleged “paramilitaries” killed three Venezuelan soldiers this weekend.

Scientists have confirmed the identity of two service members whose remains were returned by North Korea in July, officials from the Defense POW/MIA Accountability Agency announced on Monday.

Ann Coulter says President Trump must follow through on his promise to bring American troops home.

At a rare press conference earlier this week, Mattis discussed some of the historic changes he has overseen since taking office about 19 months ago. 

Marine Corps veteran Kirstie Ennis’s helicopter crashed in Afghanistan in 2012, leaving her with an above-the-knee amputation, a broken neck, and facial reconstruction. Since then, she added competitive snowboarder and mountain climber to her accomplishments, and recently, she added pin-up model.

“The military mission to eradicate ISIS [the Islamic State] in Syria is coming to a rapid end, with ISIS being almost completely destroyed,” Sanders wrote in a statement, adding that the United States was “committed” to finishing the job of eradicating the Islamic State in Syria.

The Pentagon said Sunday that troops serving overseas can now watch two channels during the shutdown — a news channel and a sports channel.

Troops will not receive a paycheck this Friday if Congress fails to pass a budget or another short-term spending measure by then, according to the Pentagon.

U.S. troops serving in the Middle East will be enjoying a traditional holiday meal this Sunday, thanks to men and women of the Pentagon’s Defense Logistic Agency Troop Support.

“They’re great people. … We’ll be over there for a while, but we’re just going to wish them a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and we love those people.”

There are nearly 2,000 U.S. active and reserve troops in Syria, according to the most recent Pentagon statistics. That is about four times the amount that was allowed to be publicized under the accounting system implemented by the Obama administration.

The U.S. military once again used its massive logistical reach to send almost 100,000 pounds of turkey to U.S. troops stationed all over the world for Thanksgiving.

TEL AVIV – Iraq’s parliament voted unanimously to criminalize displaying the Israeli flag in public, likely in response to September’s Kurdish independence referendum for which Israel expressed open support.

TEL AVIV – Iraqi Kurdistan’s warnings that it could face another genocide at the hands of the growing alliance between Iraq and Iranian forces in the region if the West continues to ignore its predicament are legitimate, an expert on Islamic terror said on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – In its ongoing attempt to drive the U.S. and Iraq apart, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iraq’s U.S.-backed prime minister on Thursday that America was not to be trusted and he should not depend on it when fighting the Islamic State, Reuters reported quoting Iran’s state TV.

MTV has sent invitations to active duty transgender military service members to appear at Sunday’s Video Music Awards (VMAs), the Department of Defense confirmed.

President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he is not allowing transgender people to serve in the U.S. military, a reversal of former President Obama’s decision last year to let them serve.

A grandmother from California has brought letter-writing to a new art form by sending hand-written letters to troops stationed overseas.

President Donald Trump ignored the custom of holding a press conference to conclude his trip abroad, choosing, instead, to celebrate his successful trip with a speech to the troops.

A U.S. servicemember was killed May 4 during an operation against al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, approximately 40 miles west of Mogadishu, according to a statement from U.S. Africa Command on Friday.