Marines with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, have their common access card scanned in order to be properly manifested during a CONUS Based Alert Force drill Jan. 13, 2013.

The Common Access Card, or CAC, issue traces back to about three years ago, when the Defense Department could not issue IDs that had three-year security certificates because of technical ...

Active-duty troops can now log in to renew their family members' military ID cards in a pilot program allowing the IDs to be renewed entirely online.

(Wesley Farnsworth/Air Force) About 1 million people with Uniformed Services Identification cards are now eligible to renew their ID cards online, rather than visiting an office in person.

Women pilots worry they will lose precious flight time as the Air Force rolls back the rules on flying while pregnant. The move comes as the Pentagon looks at standards across the military.

Americans stationed at Aviano Air Base, Italy, will not have to use a Military Star card to make payments to the Forax fuel rations card after a new policy was rescinded.

DETROIT ARSENAL, Mich. – The Army and Air Force Exchange Service, better known by the acronym AAFES, recently made several big changes regarding who can ...

DALLAS – Military shoppers can use their smarts to save 15% on back-to-school shopping by signing up and using a new MILITARY STAR® card.

Any military airbases feature plenty of ground crew using hand gestures and colorful wands to communicate with pilots. Here's what those gestures mean.

The new cards, which closely resemble the Common Access Card, or CAC, used by troops, are hard plastic and, unlike the previous version, include a color ID photo.

Camby Goff set off on the path that would eventually lead him to Air Force when he was 15 years old.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has agreed to share data with the U.S. Air Force related to the ongoing development of the B-21 Raider Long Range Strike Bomber and its virtual model.