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Three of the six U.S. service members who died in the crash of a U.S. military refueling aircraft were stationed in Birmingham as part of 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.

A pilot from Alabama had just been promoted to major in January and had been deployed less than a week when the refueling aircraft he was aboard crashed in Iraq this week, killing him and five others.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to Capitol Hill last week. One subject was Greenland. The Trump administration wants to acquire the island over national security concerns. Rubio told lawmakers that the uproar over within NATO is calming and that talks are underway about how to deal with Trump's demands. APR News focused on Denmark’s 1909 “Alabama Expedition” to explain how long the dispute over Greenland has been going on. The White House’s ambitions prompted a loud response in Denmark last month.

U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Frank Bradley will provide a classified briefing to key lawmakers overseeing the military on Thursday as they investigate a U.S. military attack on a boat allegedly carrying drugs that included a second strike that killed survivors. Congressman Mike Rogers of Alabama, the Republican chair of the House Armed Services Committee, said he was “satisfied” following a conversation with Hegseth on the attack, but that he also wanted to hear from Bradley.

In 2023, amid a national reckoning on issues of race in America, seven Army bases' names were changed because they honored Confederate leaders. Now, those same bases are reverting back to their original names, this time with different namesakes who share Confederate surnames — the Army found other service members with the same last names to honor.

Tuskegee University is the new home to the U.S. Department of Defense's aerospace education center of excellence.The Aerospace Education Research and…

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said she welcomes a review from the U.S. Department of Defense over the decision to move the Space Command headquarters from…

After more than six decades, a Cullman native who went missing during the Korean War has finally been identified and brought home to Alabama for a full…