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Military personnel salutes as Air Force One, with President Barack Obama aboard, departs, Thursday, June 23, 2016, from Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Obama is traveling to the San Francisco-Bay Area today and attending a Global Entrepreneur Summit at Stanford University tomorrow. . (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Donald Trump to Boeing: ‘Cancel order’ for new $4B Air Force One

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2016, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The lame-duck Congress is gaveling in for its final work session of 2016, and its last under President Barack Obama, as lawmakers face a Dec. 9 deadline for spending legislation to keep the government running. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

Pentagon chief: Don’t extend stopgap funding through May

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

In this Nov. 30, 2011, file photo, California Army National Guard soldiers watch the arrival of the body of soldier Sean Walsh, who died on Nov. 16 during a combat operation in Afghanistan, at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, Calif. Nearly 10,000 California National Guard soldiers have been ordered to repay huge enlistment bonuses a decade after signing up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Pentagon orders revamp of military pay system in wake of California National Guard scandal

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The Pentagon says it will suspend attempts to recoup bonuses that were improperly paid to U.S. servicemen ten years ago. (Facebook, California Army National Guard)

Ashton Carter suspends National Guard ‘clawbacks,’ vows pay system reform

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The Pentagon says it will suspend attempts to recoup bonuses that were improperly paid to U.S. servicemen ten years ago. (Facebook, California Army National Guard)

Government demands guardsmen return bonuses for re-enlisting

By Tammy Bruce

U.S. Secretary of Defence, Ash Carter, arrives for a meeting of the North Atlantic Council Defence Ministers session at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss tense relations with Russia, how to help Middle East nations combat extremism and cooperation between the military alliance and the European Union. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Pentagon suspends California National Guard bonus repayments

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

President Barack Obama walks from Marine One toward Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. Obama is returning to Washington after spending a few days in Nevada and California campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama urges Pentagon not to ‘nickel and dime’ Guardsmen on enlistment bonuses

By Dave Boyer and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and a former Marine captain, said the military's trying to get soldiers to pay back bonuses is "boneheaded." (Associated Press)

Soldiers asked to return reenlistment bonuses by Pentagon

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2010 file photo, U.S. Army Pfc. Brandon Martin, of Tuscon, Ariz., left, and Pfc. Richard Flynn, of Starke, Fla., of Tactical Command Post, HQ Company, 2-502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, take up a fighting position behind a barrier, during a joint patrol with the Afghan Army, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. Iowa's second-largest city has managed to keep flooding at bay largely because of the barriers that were widely used to protect soldiers in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Crews in Cedar Rapids hastily erected Hesco barriers along miles of the Cedar River through neighborhoods and downtown. As of Tuesday morning, Sept. 27, 2016, the sand-filled containers had protected thousands of properties. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

California veterans forced to repay decade-old bonuses; Pentagon ripped by lawmakers

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

While Defense Secretary Ashton Carter prepared for his trip to Turkey, a senior Iraqi general on Wednesday called on Iraqis fighting for the Islamic State to surrender as a wide-scale operation to retake Mosul entered its third day. Story, A11. (Associated Press)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasts U.S.-led campaign against ISIS ahead of Ashton Carter’s Turkey visit

By Carlo Muñoz and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel co-founded Palantir Technologies, which is facing a Labor Department lawsuit accusing it of job discrimination. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama administration sues Peter Thiel; Palantir; conservatives see political reprisal

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Senior Airmen Nathan Gehrke (left) and Douglas Conway, both sensor operators, assist Capt. Aaron Mihaljevich, an MQ-1 Predator pilot, in locating simulated targets during a training mission at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada in July. Capt. Mihaljevich and Senior Airmen Gehrke and Conway are all assigned to the 11th Reconnaissance Squadron. (U.S. Air Force) ** FILE **

Classified computer network at Nevada drone base suffered outage; investigation underway: Air Force

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In the latest move in an extraordinary battle at the Pentagon, the defense filed an appeal saying the Navy's two highest-ranking lawyers committed unlawful command influence. (Associated Press/File)

Pentagon issues handbook on sex change in the ranks

By Bill Gertz

For the second time this week, two missiles were fired at the USS Mason in the Red Sea, and officials believe they were launched by the same Yemen-based Houthi rebels involved in the earlier attack, a U.S. military official said Wednesday. (U.S. Navy via Associated Press)

U.S. warship targeted near Yemen Houthi territory

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 file photo, Russian air defense system missile system Antey 2500, or S-300 VM, is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia. The Russian military said Tuesday it had deployed the S-300 air defense missile systems to Syria to protect a Russian navy facility in the Syrian port of Tartus and Russian navy ships in the area. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, file)

Russia threatens to kill pact to share skies over Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 22, 2016, file photo, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Russia accuses US of nurturing aggressive nuclear strategy

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Sept. 22, 2016, file photo, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Ashton Carter: Nuclear force changes are ‘bearing fruit’

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

In this Sept. 22, 2016, file photo, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Pentagon chief, an expert on nukes, says little about them

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this Sept. 22, 2016, file photo, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Pentagon chief is expert on nukes but says little about them

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

President Barack Obama walks with Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., his nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Obama chose the widely respected, combat-hardened commander who led the Afghanistan war coalition during a key transitional period during 2013-2014 to succeed Army Gen. Martin Dempsey. Walking behind them is Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pentagon’s top brass explores Islamic ideology’s ties to terror behind the scenes

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times