A Florida veteran has pleaded guilty to falsely claiming four Purple Hearts, when he had none.

The U.S. Navy plans to make Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville the new home of a nuclear aircraft carrier.

Call it breaking the brass ceiling. Ann E. Dunwoody, after 33 years in the Army, ascended Friday to a peak never before reached by a woman in the U.S. military: four-star general.

The Navy is holding a hearing to determine whether to take a chief petty officer to trial for mistreating Iraqi detainees in May.

Gen. David Petraeus, regarded as rescuer of a failing war in Iraq, rose to the helm of Central Command on Friday. He pledged to push for more than military solutions to the troubles of the greater Middle East.

A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War.

Gen. David Petraeus, whose strategy for countering the Iraq insurgency is credited by many with rescuing the country from all-out civil war, stepped aside Tuesday as Gen. Ray Odierno took over as the top American commander of the conflict.

Soldier suicides this year could surpass the record rate of last year, Army officials said Thursday, urging military leaders at all levels to redouble prevention efforts for a force strained by two wars.

Gen. David Petraeus, has given his military superiors and Defense Secretary Robert Gates his initial recommendation on when to resume a U.S. troop withdrawal and at what pace, a senior military officer close to the process said Friday.

A Fort Bragg soldier was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in the death of a pregnant colleague whose partially decomposed body was found in a motel bathtub in Fayetteville more than a month ago, police said.

Officers had been to the white ranch house at 560 W. Longleaf many times before over the past year to respond to a “barricade situation.“ Each had ended uneventfully, with Joseph Dwyer coming out or telling police in a calm voice through the window that he was OK.

But this time was different.