Could someone just give him a nice collection of G.I. Joe’s?

The military has a revenge porn problem, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. A report from Vice News has revealed that hundreds of explicit photos of military servicewomen are circulating via a Dropbox folder titled “Hoes Hoin’.” The photos depict the women in various states of dress—from fully clothed, to…

In the unlikely case that Donald Trump actually wanted to be president, it is all but certain that he imagined it to be a four years-long Soviet-style military parade. Planes swooshing, common folk cheering, cannons firing, generals saluting, a virile assortment of exceptionally large tanks. Bam bam bam! And, as it…

A federal court has clarified that the U.S. military must move forward with accepting transgender recruits beginning on January 1, 2018, following a ruling that Trump’s attempt to ban trans service members cannot be enforced while the case is reviewed in court.

A federal judge in Washington, DC has suspended Donald Trump’s executive order which reversed the military’s policy on transgender troops.

North Korea, which you may know from its increasingly enthusiastic recent missile launches, claims to be eyeing Guam next. On Tuesday, North Korea sent a missile over Japan, in what North Korean State media called “the first step of the military operation of the (North Korean military) in the Pacific and a meaningful…

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary James Mattis announced that transgender people will continue to be allowed to serve in the US military, while he waits upon the results of a study “by experts” to determine whether their service will negatively impact military readiness or costs, USA Today reports. Luckily, such a study…

According to a new report in the Wall Street Journal, the White House is expected to officially send guidance that gives the Department of Defense authority to remove transgender people from the military. The administration is also reportedly instructing the Pentagon to bar transgender individuals from serving, and to…

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A little over a year ago, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that transgender individuals would be allowed to serve openly in the military. “We can’t allow barriers unrelated to a person’s qualifications prevent us from recruiting and retaining those who can best accomplish the mission,” he said in the…

Sexual assault in the military isn’t a new thing—in fact, it’s a problem that military and government officials have been aware of for decades. But in our collective memory, attention is generally only paid to it once every few years, when something horrific breaks through, like the Marines United nude photo scandal…

In March, it came out that the Defense Department was investigating reports that veteran and enlisted Marines had joined a private Facebook page called “Marines United,” where they shared photographs of women—some clothed, some not—many of whom were their colleagues in the Marines, without their consent. Since then,…

Beginning May 14, sailors will have to leave both their girls and their vapes on shore after a series of “mishaps” destroyed the Navy’s chill

Savannah Cunningham, 19, was one of the hundreds of women whose body was put on display without consent in a secret Facebook group and then consumed for perverse, degrading entertainment by members of the United States Marine Corps and other branches of the military. Now, according to The New York Times, she is…

Active duty and retired members of the United States Marine Corps are being investigated for sharing nude photos of women—many of them fellow Marines—on a secret Facebook page. Some of these photographs were purportedly taken without the knowledge and consent of the subject.

Chelsea Manning’s attorneys and support team say they haven’t been able to reach her for six days, and that she has missed several planned phone calls. The imprisoned former military intelligence analyst attempted suicide in July and was placed in solitary confinement last month as punishment.

Donald Trump, the human equivalent to a hideously oppressive smell with no known provenance, has treated the United States to a masterclass in how not to hire a campaign manager. His newest, Kellyanne Conway, showed potential to be the least terrible of the three we’ve seen so far, but that potential has rapidly…

A high-ranking military adviser whose job is to speak on behalf of enlisted service members says those service members truly don’t care about being asked to serve alongside trans people and women. Army Command Sergeant Major John Troxell said in his experience, most troops are “beyond it already.”

Please turn your attention to the gentleman on the right, in the slightly less unfortunate of the two ensembles before us. He is Marine Corps veteran Mark Geist, and if you’ll look carefully, his fly is down.