5 Things to Start Your Week Here are five noteworthy news stories and events to start your week, from the editors at Military.com.
Army to Hold Steady on Force Size, Prioritize Missile Defense The Army plans to hold end-strength flat in fiscal 2018 to boost funding for armored forces in Europe and missile defense...
Trump Sets 2018 Military Pay Raise at 2.1% The levels are consistent with the president's federal budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.
Will Spending Showdown Affect You? Weeks after the year-end "fiscal cliff" showdown, the nation is already facing another high-stakes Washington debate.
Final Countdown to Sequestration Congress and the White House have until midnight to agree to a plan to replace sequestration, as Defense Secretary Hagel...
Pentagon Unveils $527B 2014 Budget DoD announced a 2014 base budget that would limit pay raises for military personnel, cancel and delay weapons systems, and...
Hagel: Cuts Will Force More Service Uniformity The DoD wants to develop more common personal gear and ground vehicles to save money in the new era of tight budgets.
Military 'Danger Pay' Still On Hold The DoD hasn't decided on whether troops in Afghanistan will keep receiving the extra $7.50 a day they rate for hazardous...
Vet Groups Scramble to Help Vets in VA Furlough Disabled American Veterans service officers began setting up Tuesday in local DAV posts, Department of Veterans Affairs'...
Shutdown Deal Protects Troop Pay for Few Months The deal presented by the Senate to end the U.S. government shutdown may only protect troops' paychecks for three months.
Harvard to Offer Full Rides to 50 Veterans and Civil Servants for Master's Degrees in Public Policy The $100,000 fellowships are being offered at a time when the school has come under attack from President Donald Trump, who...
Fort Hood Senior Noncommissioned Officer Arrested a Second Time on Child Sex Assault Charges Sgt. Maj. Victor Manuel Rivera was arrested on June 18 and released on a $90,000 bond on June 30. He is facing a first-degree...
Trump Taps Air Force and Space Force Generals as Next Service Vice Chiefs Nominations were put in front of the Senate for Space Force Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton and Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere to...
The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
21-Year-Old Soldier Hacked Databases, Threatened to Leak Stolen Data, Feds Say John Wagenius was stationed at Fort Cavazo and at a U.S. Army base in South Korea throughout the scheme between April 2023...
