Eligible U.S. Army pilots can earn up to nearly $210,000 in retention bonuses under a fiscal 2026 program designed to keep experienced aviators in uniform, the service announced in a directive dated July 26. The program is open to Army aviation warrant officers who meet specific career requirements and agree to remain on active duty for three to six additional years.The move, first reported by Task & Purpose, comes as the Navy and Air Force are also offering hefty bonuses to keep select experienced aviators in the service. Warrant officers with 12 to 14 years of active federal service can…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An illegal immigrant who prosecutors say poured lighter fluid onto a burning California Highway Patrol cruiser while officers were trapped beneath a Los Angeles freeway overpass during last year’s violent anti-ICE riots is headed to federal prison, becoming the latest person convicted in the brazen attack.Yachua Mauricio Flores, a 23-year-old Mexican national living in Los Angeles’ Lincoln Heights neighborhood, was sentenced Monday to 37 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $253,415 in restitution for his role in the June 8, 2025 riot, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.Federal prosecutors…

The Navy last week announced its latest round of guidance regarding facial hair grooming requirements and religious and medical accommodations. Commands are now instructed to produce monthly facial hair accountability reports, specifically for those service members diagnosed with skin conditions such as Pseudofolliculitis Barbae, or razor bumps, according to the July 31 NavAdmin.Commanding officers are instructed to maintain a log of personnel requiring medical facial hair treatment plans, the memo said. Commands must then “forward a Facial Hair Accommodation Accountability Report using Excel Spreadsheet by the 15th of each month, commencing August 2026.”The updated July 31 memo expands upon the…

OutKick founder Clay Travis challenged the WNBA on Monday, offering a $10 million prize to stage a “modern-day battle of the sexes” basketball game between the reigning WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boys’ high school basketball state championship team.The challenge comes as the WNBA finds itself at the center of a transgender culture debate after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, 29, said girls should not have to compete against biological men in women’s sports.Cunningham’s bold stance to support keeping women’s sports reserved for biological females has generated strong backing – with some women’s sports advocates even rallying outside…

As focus shifts to the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. Army has approved service-wide wear of the Jungle Tab upon a soldier’s completion of the Jungle Operations Training Course, an Army spokesperson confirmed Monday. The skill tab will join the likes of the Sapper Tab, Ranger Tab and Special Forces Tab as “an official skill tab,” spokesperson Christopher Surridge said, adding that the Army is in the midst of codifying official policy and procedures for the tab’s wear and approval in the upcoming iterations of the service’s regulations. “We will officially publish and distribute formal implementation guidance to all commands upon…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Scott Eastwood has a bone to pick with Shia LaBeouf. During an appearance on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, the actor, 40, opened up about a “tense” on-set moment during the filming of the 2014 film, “Fury,” in which he nearly got into a physical altercation with the former Disney star. “There was sort of an incident that happened,” Eastwood, 40, said. “I’ve talked about it. Brad Pitt sort of broke up a little, a tense moment.”Eastwood explained that LaBeouf — who played tank gunner Boyd “Bible” Swan in the World War ll movie…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a formal commission to address decades-old, persistent problems facing military spouses and families.“It’s an order that’s long overdue,” Trump said during a signing ceremony at the White House, flanked by more than a dozen military spouses who will be part of the new commission. The President’s Military Spouse Commission will make suggestions for improving quality of life in the areas of spouse employment, housing, education, childcare, healthcare, deployment-related support “and just about everything else you can think of,” Trump said.He noted the strains of separation from loved ones deployed overseas and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Manhattan prosecutors asked a judge Monday to correct what they called false claims by Luigi Mangione’s defense team about media access to his upcoming murder trial and remind the attorneys of their ethical obligations.The filing came days after Mangione’s lawyers argued the court’s plan for public and media access violates his constitutional right to a public trial and alleged the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office was involved in deciding which reporters would be allowed to cover the proceedings.Prosecutors denied the allegation, saying the office “had no role” in developing the New York State…

Seventy-six members of the U.S. Coast Guard died by suicide between 2014 and 2024, with 14 — or nearly a fifth — occurring in 2024, the most recent data available.In the decade from 2014 to 2024, the number of suicides among active personnel and activated reservists ebbed and rose each year, with the lowest number of deaths, 3, occurring in both 2018 and 2021, and the highest — 12 and 14 — in 2022 and 2024, according to data released July 16 at the request of Military Times.The 2024 increase occurred at a time when the service experienced a slight…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bryan Kohberger has been appointed a new attorney to represent him in his petition for post-conviction relief — an attempt to withdraw his guilty plea that he filed on his own roughly a year after admitting to the murders of four University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death in November 2022.Kohberger, 30, is now being represented by attorney Greg Rauch, of Moscow, Idaho.Rauch told Fox News Digital he hasn’t read the petition, the case file or spoken to Kohberger yet. He was just appointed Monday morning and said he expects…

Dissatisfied with the quality of the engines for its fighter jets, the U.S. Air Force is looking for new engines — and perhaps new manufacturers.“The current industrial base has demonstrated significant challenges, including production delays, quality control issues, and critical obsolescence (i.e., diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages) across key engine components,” warned the Air Force’s Request for Information. The deadline is Aug. 28.“The government will pursue a strategic competition requiring industry to innovate manufacturing and guarantee supply chain resiliency,” the RFI said. The initiative comes as the Air Force struggles with its jet engines. For example, F-35 fighter deliveries…