The Pentagon is hoping a multimillion-dollar investment in new technology will enable drones on hundreds of Navy ships to provide air support to operations around the globe.

One U.S. soldier was killed during a joint U.S.-Afghan Special Operations mission in Afghanistan, two U.S. defense officials told CNN on Tuesday.

Michael Stokes is showing the world a very different view of America's wounded veterans.

His no-holds-barred photography has captured dozens of young wounded vets in ways the public is not used to seeing them: fit, happy and proud to show themselves.

The Marines don't call the Osprey a helicopter. They call it an airplane. An airplane that can hover.

But as of this summer, it is now the primary workhorse helicopter in the Marines' inventory despite a long and troubled history on the path to flight.

Some days Special Operations missions in international hotspots end in success and accolades, as when SEAL Team Six took out Osama bin Laden. These are the missions that tend to be memorialized by Hollywood scriptwriters and shape the image of Special Ops forces in the minds of Americans.

The head of the U.S. military's most elite forces doesn't just talk the talk of ending the stigma of seeking mental health help. He has walked the walk -- into the counselor's office himself.