A federal watchdog revealed unsafe housing for troops assigned to the southern border. We want to keep reporting on it, but ...

Two out of the three Humvees stolen from an Army Reserve Center in Tustin, California, have been recovered, the Army Criminal Investigation Division confirmed to Task & Purpose on Tuesday. The Tustin ...

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Task & Purpose team: It's been quite a year, and we're glad we got to share it with you.

A former Army captain who was on the run for almost five years after fleeing a court-martial for sexually abusing his daughter was found hiding at his mother’s house last week. Christopher Wilkinson, ...

A retired Green Beret now in Congress wants to ban a chain of supplement and nutrition supply stores from military bases because of ties to Chinese owners. With a bill titled the “Military ...

This summer the Army launched a new spiritual fitness guide to boost resilience in the “spiritual domain.” The Pentagon ...

More than 8,000 service members who were booted from the military or who left on their own over the COVID-19 vaccine could get full back pay and benefits if they seek to be reinstated in the military, ...

Task & Purpose photo composite. On Sept. 12, 2024, Army Spc. Matthew Perez made his way to the ramp of a C-17 and prepared to take part in a parachute jump at the Joint Readiness Training Center at ...

Jackie Talarico said her family spent thousands of dollars trying to constantly clean up mold when they lived in privatized military housing at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, where her husband ...

The Army plans to test 3D-printed drones next month during an exercise in Poland to see if the service can mass produce its own small unmanned aerial systems at a much lower cost than the defense ...

Navy SEALs infiltrated North Korea in 2019 in a mission that fell apart, according to a story published in the New York Times Friday. The investigation outlined extensive and massive planning that ...

A U.S. Marine signals to an F-35B Lightning II deployed with VMFA-225 in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, Nov. 6, 2025. Marine Corps photo Lance Cpl. Michael Gavin. The U.S. military could be poised to launch the ...