The Pentagon says an Afghan drove an apparently stolen vehicle onto the ramp area of a British airfield in southern Afghanistan and into a ditch, where it exploded in flames, about the same time U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's aircraft was landing.

The Senate Judiciary Committee heard from Jerry Ensminger, a retired Camp Lejeune Marine whose 9-year-old daughter died of leukemia in 1985.

Militants have attacked an Afghan government delegation visiting the site in one of the two villages in southern Afghanistan where a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians.

A soldier suspected of massacring 16 Afghan villagers Sunday comes from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, one of the largest military installations in the U.S. -- and one that has seen its share of controversies and violence in the past few years.

The militant group said in a statement posted on their website Monday that "American savages" committed the "blood-soaked and inhumane crime" in Panjwai district.

A 24-year-old soldier who fatally stabbed a paratrooper from Virginia while horsing around in a tent in Iraq has been sentenced to nine months in prison, demoted to private and given a bad conduct discharge.

US Coast Guard officials say a memorial service is planned Thursday to honor the crew of a helicopter that crashed in Mobile Bay a week ago.

Base officials say residents can expect increased jet noise, low-level flying and loudspeaker announcements

The military's big expansion in North Carolina continues as the Marine Corps builds a $140 million mega-hangar to hold four squadrons of a revolutionary aircraft.

The Department of Justice says a civilian from Beulaville working aboard Camp Lejeune has been sentenced for lying to get workers compensation benefits.

Two paratroopers who were killed in an attack on their base in Afghanistan are being described as outstanding leaders who set a good example for the soldiers around them.

A trend of Afghan treachery that has taken the lives of six American troops over the past week is weakening trust between Afghan forces and the U.S. and allied troops who are training and advising them.

Lance Cpl. Jonathan S. Long, 22, died during personal time after training in California. His death is under investigation.

For the first time in the decade-long war in Afghanistan, the top commander of the U.S. and NATO forces has recalled all international ministers from Afghan ministries.

The Marine Corps says seven Marines were killed in a collision of two helicopters north of Yuma, Ariz., during night training.

Afghan officials say at least three people have been killed after police opened fire to disperse thousands of anti-American demonstrators rioting for a second day over what the U.S. has said was the inadvertent burning of Muslim holy books at a NATO military base.

Some of the more than 300 Marines are returning to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock this week arrived early Tuesday morning.

Governor Chris Christie called for New Jersey's flags to fly at half staff on Saturday to honor Whitney Houston. The father of a soldier who died in Iraq is angry about it and decided to burn a state flag in protest.

The U.S. Army Special Operations Command is turning to North Carolina's motorsports industry to help build vehicles that are lighter, faster and, most importantly, safer.

Prosecutors are dropping a case against a Ft. Bragg soldier who was arrested after trying to go through a security checkpoint at a Texas airport with military-grade explosives.

The American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, shadowed by Iranian patrol boats.

Lance Corporal Osbrany De Oca died Friday during fighting in the Helmand province.

Even dying is being outsourced here.

According to the Jacksonville Daily News, more Marines will return to the East after a long tour overseas Friday.

For the second time this year, photographic proof of marines performing not politically correct acts. This time, it didn't involve marines based here in the east, but it's equally shocking. The opinions are all over the place in the military town of Jacksonville.