More Military Quality-of-Life Improvements Needed, Lawmakers Say, But Budget Caps They Passed Stand in the Way Among the quality-of-life funding included in the request is money for a 4.5% pay raise for troops, $2.35 billion for Army...
Space Force Is Facing Its First-Ever Budget Cuts Just as Space Threats from Abroad Are Growing The service, which was established in 2019, is requesting $29.4 billion for fiscal 2025, about $600 million -- or 2% -- less...
After Recruiting Woes, Air Force Cuts Planned Troop Totals by 8,000 for Coming Year Air Force officials are reducing the end strength of the service in their 2025 budget request, cutting that number down after...
Navy, Marine Corps Plan to Spend More than $250M on Barracks Restoration in 2025 The move comes as military leaders struggle to fund all their priorities after last year's move by Congress to cap the...
The Army Wants Congress to Supercharge its Barracks Budget to Fix Soldiers' Poor Living Conditions The Army is seeking a total of $2.35 billion for barracks in 2025, a major boost from this fiscal year's $1.5 billion budget...
Veterans' Gun Rights Amendment Included in Compromise Must-Pass VA Spending Bill The provision -- a win for Republicans on Capitol Hill -- was included in a bipartisan compromise deal between the House and...
As US Troops Take Fire in Middle East, Lawmakers Consider Billions in New Funding A long-awaited bipartisan Senate agreement to provide funding for the conflicts in Israel and Ukraine in exchange for U.S...
Barracks Repairs, Other Military Quality-of-Life Improvements Slam Into Congress' Upcoming Budget Fight Efforts to replace dilapidated housing and improve service members' quality of life could be kneecapped before they can even...
Biden Signs Law Backing Military Pay Increase for 2024. Here's How Much More You’ll Get. Current troops get a big bump in basic pay for the second year in a row in 2024. Veterans receive an above-average increase...
VA Makes Pitch for More Money to Counter 7.4% Rise in Homeless Veterans Living on the Streets or in Shelters The VA announced its intention to devote "hundreds of millions" to assist veterans sleeping in shelters or living on the...
Marine Sergeant Sentenced to Confinement, Dishonorable Discharge and Reduction in Rank for Lejeune Killing Dakota Honstein pleaded not guilty and was acquitted of the most severe charge -- murder, also known as Article 118 in...
Here Are All the Big Cuts and Changes Coming to the Army The service's aim is to streamline the force while investing in emerging technologies that Army officials say are critical to...
Problems with Privatized Household Goods Shipments Prompt Hegseth to Order Immediate Changes The directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth follows a rash of issues with a contract meant to privatize the Defense...
A Single Server Holds All Navy Pay and Promotion Data. DOGE Canceled a Contract to Upload It to the Cloud. The Navy has been in a yearslong struggle to modernize its critically important human resources computer systems that...
Cots, MREs, Per Diem: Army Offers New Details for Soldiers Sent to Massive D.C. Military Parade Thousands of soldiers flying or busing into Washington, D.C., next month will be sleeping on cots, eating mostly MREs (and...
