The Chautauqua County July 4th Celebration Committee has named Wesley Weise Jr. as the grand marshal of the Independence Day parade in Mayville on Saturday.

The People's Liberation Army Navy has begun conducting its annual live ammunition drill in the East China Sea, Chinese military authorities announced on Wednesday.

A Navy officer formerly commanding the Naval Weapons Station in Charleston has been placed in a pre-trial intervention program for his arrest on a prostitution charge in South Carolina.

Boeing is buying combat engineering firm Argon ST for about $775 million, reflecting a shift by defense contractors seeking to accommodate a Pentagon that now wants high-tech intelligence tools as much or more than big guns and heavy armor.

The U.S. military has opened the first buildings at a new training campus that will consolidate all medic training across the various service branches.