Camp Lejeune Offers Marines a 4-Day Weekend Pass to Get Vaccinated At an installation with low COVID-19 vaccination rates, a new program gives 96s to units that meet an immunization threshold.
DoD Health Care Beneficiaries Spared from Fee Increases in New Budget Request The Biden administration has requested a 5.3% increase in the military health system budget to tackle Tricare increases...
Sergeant Major of the Army Wants Soldiers to Consider Getting Out of Uniform for 3 Years The Career Intermission Program allows officers, warrant officers and noncommissioned officers to take up to a 3-year break.
CDC Now Watching for Cases of Heart Inflammation Following COVID-19 Vaccine A small number of myocarditis cases have been reported to the CDC, including at least 17 in the military population.
Fully Vaccinated Sailors Can Make Some Port Calls, Ditch Masks and Cut Quarantines Anyone who has declined the vaccine or hasn't built up antibodies through an infection will still be required to sequester...
Navy Needs More Mental Health Specialists, Top Civilian Says Sailors would get easier access to mental health providers in their own units under a new plan from Acting Navy Secretary...
Free Health Care for All Troops Is Key Priority, National Guard General Tells Congress Lack of easy access to mental health services may be compounding the suicide issue in the National Guard, its top officer...
Bill Would Expand Paid Parental Leave for All New Military Parents Under newly proposed legislation, both primary and secondary caregivers would be eligible for up to 12 weeks of leave.
Where Veterans and Military Members Can Get Freebies After Their COVID Vaccines From national to local, many retailers are offering discounts and free stuff to those who have gotten the COVID vaccine.
Pentagon Shipping More Moderna Doses Overseas to Cover Loss of J&J Vaccine The Defense Department's COVID task force has decided to reallocate 30,000 doses of the two-shot Moderna vaccine to overseas...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
'It's a Lottery': Why Foreign Volunteer Fought in Russia-Ukraine War Jack de Santis is a Croatian-born volunteer of the Ukrainian army who used his engineering, drone expertise to help fight...
Army Vet Sentenced to Year In Prison For $80,000 Fraud, Stolen Valor Sharon Toney-Finch, 43, was indicted in April 2024 on four charges: wire fraud, stolen valor, theft of government funds, and...
Bravo Company Vietnam Veterans Honored with Long-Overdue Bronze Stars While it took more than five decades, 14 veterans of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, were...
