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A breach of the Pentagon’s personnel database exposed Social Security numbers and other sensitive information about current and former military personnel, raising fears about how the data could be used.

Unauthorized users gained access to a Defense Manpower Data Center server last October, but the Pentagon did not discover or fix the problem until July, according to a notification letter reviewed by CNN.

The Pentagon said in its letter dated this month that it “does not have any indications of misuse” of the information exposed from the breach....

The Trump administration is facing a "devastating" threat from China after a package containing F-35 fighter jet parts was diverted to Hong Kong.

On Thursday, former Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh explained during an appearance on CNN that the Trump administration should be concerned about China's ability to reproduce and reverse-engineer the F-35 after the faux pas.

"This is incredibly damaging and embarrassing for the United States," Singh said. "This is our most sophisticated aircraft platform that our military uses, and the proprietary information and some of the parts that were rerouted can be devastating, not only to reverse-engineer, but these are the fighters that can evade detection."...

President Donald Trump's announcement that the United States has secured permanent control over security in Greenland drew immediate eye-rolls Friday, with commentators questioning both the substance of the deal and whether Denmark and Greenland had agreed to anything at all.

Shashank Joshi, defence editor at The Economist, read the announcement as considerably less than Trump described.

"Wait for details but sounds like a compromise & essentially a climb down," he wrote, noting that Trump's post mentions no U.S. sovereignty over Greenland. Joshi said the substance appeared to be commitments limiting Chinese and Russian involvement alongside an expanded American military presence, adding that if Trump wanted to characterize that as "permanent control over security," fine....

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has an Army doctor in his department investigating whether COVID vaccines killed troops.

According to a Thursday Politico article, Army physician Theresa Long testified in a federal court in Virginia that she is now working alongside Kennedy and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to examine whether service members died from COVID shots that were mandated under President Joe Biden in 2021.

Hegseth assigned her to serve as Kennedy's senior medical military adviser, a role at the HHS that had not surfaced publicly until now, according to Politico....

A retired Air Force secretary's description of how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has impacted the military shocked Kaitlan Collins.

During a Wednesday interview, Collins interviewed Frank Kendall about the military under Hegseth. Kendall said that Hegseth's "witch hunt for people who are supposedly woke" and attack on dissent have frightened the ranks and diminished morale to the point where the military is struggling to operate.

"In a word, it's dysfunctional," Kendall said, answering a question from Collins about his assessment of what's happening in the military and Pentagon right now. "I've worked with and had a chance to work for maybe a dozen secretaries of defense. He's doing active harm to the Department of Defense. It's not passive. It's active harm."...

As concerns mounted Friday over poor conditions onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, families of military service members on another Navy ship were pleading for help.

A new report from independent journalist Aaron Parnas detailed the troubling conditions and declining morale shared by sailors' families, including how service members on the USS George H.W. Bush were facing "virtually no food, water, or soap," The Daily Beast reported.

A loved one of two U.S. sailors told Parnas via text how the situation was worsening for sailors on the warship in the Arabian Sea as the Iran war now drags on for more than five months....