Pentagon

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk on the flight deck as part of the Navy's 250th anniversary celebration, aboard the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Norfolk, Va., Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Members of the Pentagon press corp gather for a group photo after turning in their press credentials, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump meets with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Demonstrators rally during the "No Kings Day" protest on Presidents Day in Washington, in support of federal workers and against recent actions by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

A photo illustration highlighting a Pentagon-funded study that used old data to conclude incorrectly that extremism is not a problem in the military.

U.S military aircraft takes off at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. The massive U.S.-led airlift was winding down Saturday ahead of a U.S. deadline to withdraw from Afghanistan by Tuesday. Most allies have completed their own airlifts and flown out after 20 years of deployment in the country. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

A photo illustration combines a defendant’s letter to a judge in the case of weapons he stole from a Massachusetts armory and an evidence photo of an M4 carbine rifle. In the first public accounting of its kind in decades, an AP investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s, with some resurfacing in violent crimes. AP’s total is an undercount of a problem some armed services have downplayed. (AP Illustration / Nat Castañeda)

Myeshia Johnson, the wife of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, looks down at her husband's casket after his burial at the Hollywood Memorial Gardens in Hollywood, Fla., Oct. 21, 2017. Sgt. Johnson and three other servicemen were killed in an ambush by extremists in Niger on Oct. 4. An AP exclusive reported the details of a Pentagon report indicating that initial reports on the circumstances of his death were wrong. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)