Government Shutdown: How Will it Affect You? Learn some basic answers to common questions that military members and their families are asking about the shutdown.
DoD Restores Death Benefits with Nonprofit's Help The Pentagon partnered with the Fisher House Foundation to resume the benefits, including a $100,000 death gratuity payment.
VSOs Use Shutdown as Case for Advance VA Funding The government shutdown may be over, but veterans organizations are not relaxing their demand that Congress pass legislation...
Survey: Most Enlistees Don't Value Commissaries Most active duty troops, especially enlistees, don't value the commissaries as much as the government pays to operate them.
Pentagon Outlines Increased Tricare Fee Proposal Families and retirees may have only one health care plan option and higher out-of-pocket fees under a controversial proposal.
House Panel Protects A-10, Pulls BRAC from Budget The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday added $104 billion to the proposed defense budget for 2015.
Costs of Campaign Against Islamic State Near $1 Billion The costs of the U.S. campaign against the Islamic State are approaching $1 billion as the pace of the airstrikes increase.
Pentagon Tells Congress to Stop Buying Equipment it Doesn't Need Lawmakers want the U.S. military's service chiefs to have more power to prevent the Pentagon from buying weapons it doesn't...
VFW Says Ending Sequestration is Top 2016 Priority The VFW will be lobbying to end sequestration this week when its leadership appears with Congress.
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...