12-Week Military Parental Leave Benefit Will Be in Place by January The leave will be non-chargeable, meaning it doesn't count against other leave allowances.
More Than a Million Tricare Users Must Switch Managers After Massive Contract Decision Tricare beneficiaries in the West Region will get a new managed care contractor in 2024 under a major contract award to...
Cuts to Stateside Cost of Living Allowances Coming for Service Members as Other Pays Go Up Next year about 1,000 fewer troops will be getting an allowance intended to help them live in expensive parts of America, the...
COLA Reinstated for Service Members in Japan for the First Time in Months The latest change comes amid rapid currency fluctuations that led to the halting of the payments.
Army Announces Plan to Give Some Retirees More Time to Transition Out of the Military The announcement comes a week after the Government Accountability Office found systematic issues in the military's Transition...
More than Half a Million Troops, Families, Exposed to 'Forever Chemicals,' Watchdog Group Says An internal DoD report published said roughly 175,000 people were affected each year, but an advocacy group says the number...
You're Going to Have to Reconfirm Tricare Mail Order Refills Starting Jan. 1 In an effort to reduce waste and ensure timely refills, Express Scripts will now ask beneficiaries to approve prescription...
Military's Transition Program Riddled with Issues, Report and Veterans Say The Pentagon's troop-to-veteran transition program is riddled with low participation, delays and unwarranted denials...
Thousands of Pharmacies Will Return to Tricare in January The return will brings back a fraction of the nearly 15,000 pharmacies that left the network in October.
Thousands of Tricare Pharmacy Locations Could Be Lost Due to Kroger-Albertsons Merger Tricare beneficiaries who fill their prescriptions at Kroger began receiving letters last week informing them of the company...
Defense Department to Review List of Medical Conditions that Disqualify Potential Recruits from Serving The review follows changes over the last three years that expanded waivers for 51 conditions.
Frantic Refugees, Helicopters Pushed Overboard: Memories of the Fall of Saigon 50 Years Later Fifty years later, the surreal images of U.S. sailors and Marines scrambling to push, drag and muscle helicopters overboard...
Reports of Civilian Deaths in Yemen Are Mounting. The Pentagon Is Remaining Mostly Silent. After reports of two major strikes against targets inside Yemen, officials at U.S. Central Command are refusing to discuss...
Trump Locks In Future of Michigan Air Base with New Fighter Jet Announcement President Donald Trump landed in Michigan and shared a hug with a longtime antagonist, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, as...
48 Hours with Marines and Soldiers on the US Southern Border Amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, military assets and personnel are increasingly being relied upon for a...
![Marines at the border wall](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/staff-border-wall-marines-wire-1800.jpg?itok=a3dIOHTu "Marines were deployed here to reinforce barriers during President Donald Trump's first term, but they were not armed with the long guns their Guardian Angels carry now, NPR reported. An old policy from the very unit these Marines come from said Guardian Angels must watch over their units' security with an "ambush mentality." (Drew F. Lawrence/Military.com)")