Air Force Secretary to Lawmakers: Let Us Close Bases Deborah Lee James said infrastructure improvements across too many bases are forcing the AF to put money where it's not...
House Panel Seeks to Increase Army Ranks by 45,000 Soldiers The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has introduced a bill that would increase the U.S. Army by 45K soldiers.
Congress May Not Require Women to Register for Draft Congress appears to favor another study commission rather than taking a vote on the issue of having women register for the...
Service Leaders Divided on Closing Bases to Cut Costs The Army is adamant: It needs to close bases to save money, and it needs to do it now. The Air Force may also be open to the...
Conservative Group Calls for Curbing Troops' Housing Allowances A conservative think tank is calling for reducing the cost of troop housing allowances as part of the fiscal 2018 budget.
Mattis: Lawmakers in Congress Have Let Troops Down Defense Secretary Jim Mattis ripped Congress Monday for letting sequestration budget caps continue.
Panetta Hits Sequestration Cuts at House Hearing Members of the House Armed Services and Veterans Affairs committees found their own opposition to sequestration cuts echoed...
Senate Passes Bill to Pay Military in Shutdown The Senate on Monday followed the House's lead in clearing the way for servicemembers and Defense Department civilians to...
Trump Is Renaming 7 Army Installations. Here Are the Stories Behind the Names Being Scrubbed. President Donald Trump's announcement is the administration's latest move in its concerted effort to shift the people and...
Veteran Who Fired at Gunman and Inadvertently Killed Utah Protester Was a Safety Volunteer, Organizers Say Police said that the permit for the protest did not specify that there would be armed security, and that the role and...
Air Force Lowered Annual Recruiting Goal Due to Budget Woes, But Still on Track to Hit Target This Month The Air Force had to reduce its target recruiting goal by several thousand airmen due to ongoing congressional budget delays...
‘They’re Taking Shirly’: An Army Sergeant Thought His Family Was Safe. Then, ICE Deported His Wife. For tens of thousands of U.S. service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from...
Air Force's Bunker-Buster Bomb Could Take Out Iran Nuclear Facility, But Israel Hints at Other Options The Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the centrifuges deep...
![Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James speaks to attendees at the Center for a New American Security's, "Women and Leadership in National Security," in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/media/news/people/2015/03/deborah-lee-james-gives-speech.jpg?itok=fslIVTGy "Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James speaks to attendees at the Center for a New American Security's, "Women and Leadership in National Security," in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)")
![An AN/MLQ-34 "TACJAM" Countermeasure Set being is moved from Fort Monmouth, N.J., to a museum in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., July 14, 2011. (Courtesy photo Army.mil)](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/media/news/service/2017/02/brac-tacjam-1500.jpg?itok=poENsB4Q "An AN/MLQ-34 "TACJAM" Countermeasure Set being is moved from Fort Monmouth, N.J., to a museum in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., July 14, 2011. (Courtesy photo Army.mil)")
