The Air Force's NAOC Security Forces team travels with the E-4B Nightwatch aircraft, not as personal guards to the Secretary of Defense.| Task & Purpose
A picture taken during selection training for Air Force Special Tactics Officers captures the intensity of underwater training.| Task & Purpose
Task & Purpose provides military news, culture, and analysis by and for the military and veterans community.| Task & Purpose
The call-out was at least the fourth time since 2018 that fire fighers responded to a paratrooper caught in a tree at the Indiana Guard base.| Task & Purpose
Vance was a Marine for four years and deployed to Iraq as a military journalist. No Marine has ever been President.| Task & Purpose
The crew rescued four workers who had fallen 40 feet when the roof of an industrial water tank collapsed.| Task & Purpose
Col. Allison Black, who Afghan fighters called "the Angel of Death" for her radio calls from AC-130 gunships, is retiring from the Air Force.| Task & Purpose
When the USS Hornet sunk in World War II, a tractor used to move aircraft went down too. Now a recovery mission is being planned.| Task & Purpose
An Air Force sergeant discovered his previous service in the Army qualified him for the Army's new Master Combat badge.| Task & Purpose
For one week, two soldiers walked a mile in each other's boots by switching units in their aviation and ground roles.| Task & Purpose
The runway display of 53 Air Force and Navy planes — plus Army missiles — ranged from rescue helicopters to fighters and hulking spy planes.| Task & Purpose
The Space Force will have its own special ops component, Space Force Special Operations Command, under U.S. Special Operations Command.| Task & Purpose
The mishaps included an accidental shut down of an engine in flight and a parking accident involving two of the aircraft.| Task & Purpose
Rear Adm. Michael Wosje became one of about 400 Navy pilots to record 1,000 landings on an aircraft carrier.| Task & Purpose
Every year, the New York National Guard sends soldiers and airmen to Brazil's jungle warfare school, one of the world's toughest.| Task & Purpose
US Northern Command has identified the units to which the first 1,000 soldiers and 500 Marines deploying to the southern border are assigned.| Task & Purpose
The eye of Hurricane Helene hit the south Georgia base, cutting power and water. Airmen stepped up to help each other dig out.| Task & Purpose