The Cost of Skipping Sick Call: How Active-Duty Service Members Can Protect Future VA Claims Every day you don't document injuries connected to military service, you make a future VA disability claim harder to prove.
One Household, One Set of Benefits: How Military and VA Rules Affect Dual-Service Couples Military and VA benefit systems often evaluate dual-service couples at the household level rather than as two individuals who...
Tricare After Active Duty: What Actually Happens to Your Health Insurance Many service members don't sort out their civilian health insurance until they're already out and scrambling. The confusion...
Who Gets Holidays Off: What Holiday Duty Rosters Reveal About Military Priorities Holiday duty rosters reveal how the military actually allocates rest, fatigue, and sacrifice, showing whose time is protected...
The Most Common Legal Mistakes Servicemembers Make When Leaving the Military Servicemembers leaving the military often make quiet legal mistakes through missed deadlines, incorrect assumptions, and...
Military BAH Housing Payments Are Up 4.2% for 2026 Military households will receive an average 4.2% increase in their Basic Allowance for Housing in 2026.
Here Are Your BAH Rates for 2026 The 2026 BAH rates (or Basic Allowance for Housing) are designed to meet current housing costs.
Tricare Demo in Two Cities Lets Users See a Specialist Without a Referral Through the demonstration, beneficiaries will receive care through the CareSource provider network instead of the Humana...
Costs for Tricare Are Going Up in 2026 Most Tricare health plan costs for military and retiree households will go up between 2% and 3% in 2026, with some steeper...
Want Extra Vision Insurance? Get It Through FEDVIP Military families and retirees qualify for the FEDVIP vision insurance program.
This Navy Dentist Engraved 'Remember Pearl Harbor' on Hideki Tojo's Dentures For roughly three months in 1946 and 1947, the man who approved the attack on Pearl Harbor walked around Sugamo Prison with...
Black History Month Turns 100 Black History Month highlights Black servicemembers whose courage shaped the military despite segregation and discrimination.
DoW Christian Service Draws Dozens of Complaints from Members, Contractors One contractor told Military.com that the email invite was "stark, depressing, almost threatening."
The Youngest American Killed in Vietnam Enlisted in the Marines at 14 PFC Dan Bullock became the youngest American service member killed in the Vietnam War after forging his birth certificate to...
Why You Didn’t Get the Job: Understanding How Companies Hire In today’s turbulent, unpredictable and frustrating hiring market, job-seekers are seemingly doing everything right and...
