An aircrewman aboard a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Barbers Point scans the waters off Oahu Aug. 18, 2017, for any sign of five missing aviators from an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. (Coast Guard photo by Air Station Barbers Point)

Rescuers expand search for Army helicopter crew in Hawaii

The Coast Guard has expanded its search for five crew members of a downed Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the ocean off the coast of Hawaii more than four days ago.

Pentagon nominees will be waiting for Senate confirmation when the upper chamber returns in September, but the Trump administration has dozens of top jobs there to fill. (Staff Sgt. Jette Carr/Air Force)

Top Pentagon posts 74 percent vacant as Congress returns

Pentagon nominees will be waiting for Senate confirmation when the upper chamber returns in September, but the Trump administration has dozens of top jobs there to fill.

In this Nov. 20, 2016, file photo, Popular Mobilization Units fighters ride on the back of a truck on their way to fight against Islamic State militants in the airport of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, Iraq. (Felipe Dana/AP)

Iraq launches operation to take back ISIS-held town near Mosul

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a multi-pronged assault to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, marking the next phase in the country’s war on the Islamic State group.

Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. is being honored by the academy where he was ostracized as a cadet in the 1930s. On Friday, West Point dedicated the new barracks named for Davis. (Defense Department)

West Point dedicates barracks to ostracized black cadet, Tuskegee Airman

Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. eventually became a Tuskegee Airman and the Air Force’s first black general, but when he was just a cadet in 1932 at the United States Military Academy, no one wanted to be his roommate, let alone be his friend or speak to him unless absolutely necessary.

South Korean and US troops sit inside an amphibious vehicle as they pose for photographers during an annual joint military landing exercise in Pohang, on South Korea's southeast coast, on March 12, 2016. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)

How North Korea might respond to the US-South Korea war games

America’s annual joint military exercises with South Korea always frustrate North Korea. The war games set to begin Monday may hold more potential to provoke than ever, given President Donald Trump’s “fire and fury” threats and Pyongyang’s as-yet-unpursued plan to launch missiles close to Guam.

Capt. Brett DeVries, an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot of the 107th Fighter Squadron from Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan, poses next to the aircraft he safely landed after a malfunction forced him to make an emergency landing July 20, 2017, at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center. (Air National Guard)

Air Force captain lands A-10 with no canopy, no gear

A misfire from the Warthog's 30mm gun enveloped the A-10 in smoke, blew the canopy off during training flight

Airmen salute during a ceremony honoring a retiring chief master sergeant. Air Force Maj. Kevin Deibler argues that the military's rank structure is holding back the force, especially as it prepares to fight on the battlefields of the future. (Sue Sapp/Air Force)

Commentary: The rank structure is holding us back. It’s time for drastic change

No officers? No enlisted? No kidding: This Air Force officer says it’s time to classify service members by how they can help win the modern fight — or risk losing it.

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