Timothy Lilley flew Black Hawk helicopters for the Army, transporting passengers over the Potomac River from his base in Virginia.“We were stationed in Virginia, and [Timothy Lilley] flew that same route back and forth to the Pentagon,
Pete Hegseth told Milley, a critic of Trump, that he had ordered an investigation to determine whether his rank should be re-evaluated.
Dan Driscoll, an Army veteran and businessman, told senators that he would serve as the soldiers’ secretary of the Army, “not of the generals or of the bureaucracy,” if he is confirmed as President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the largest military service.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling the security protections and clearance of retired Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte discussed the alliance in a call on Wednesday, including "building a stronger, more lethal NATO Alliance" and raising allied defense spending,
Space-based missile defenses are the Holy Grail of American national defense. President Donald J. Trump wants to build an Iron Dome missile defense system for the entire United States. That’s what the forty-seventh president said during his Inaugural Address last week.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Army’s 12th Aviation Battalion that includes the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the deadly crash near Ronald Reagan National Airport has been granted a 48-hour operational pause.
Sixty passengers and four crew members were aboard American Eagle Flight 5342, and the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three people when they collided over the Potomac River.
Early in his first administration, President Trump noted the general’s “brilliance and fortitude.” And then the president got angry.
Officials say there are no survivors among the 67 passengers on the aircrafts that collided above Washington, D.C.