The first contingent of thousands of US troops headed to Haiti Thursday as the military mobilized an array of ships, planes and helicopters to provide emergency aid after a massive earthquake. A company of about 100 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division were expected in quake-hit Haiti by the evening, with the remainder of their 3,500-strong brigade due to ...

A 1,500-strong contingent of US Marines will arrive in Afghanistan this month in the first wave of a troop surge approved by President Barack Obama, the US military said on Monday. The Marines from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were among 16,000 forces who received deployment orders in the past few days as part of the troop buildup ...

The first wave of President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan surge will add about 16,000 U.S. troops who got their orders over the past few days, the Pentagon announced Monday. About 1,500 Marines from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina will ...

Northrop Grumman and Airbus have threatened to withdraw from the competition for the multi-billion-dollar contract to build a new US military tanker aircraft, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. "The (Defense) Department regrets that Northrop-Grumman and Airbus have taken themselves out of the tanker competition and hope they will return when the final RFP (request for proposal) is issued," Pentagon spokesman ...