Service Academies Honor Law Allowing Cadets to Have Kids Even as Pentagon Policy Lags The military service academies are all following the spirit of a nearly one-year-old law that allows cadets and Midshipmen...
No Protections for Troop Paychecks Yet as Lawmakers Bicker and Shutdown Grows More Likely The uncertainty over troop pay comes as government funding is on track to expire at midnight Saturday.
Ending Ukraine Aid Would Be 'Devastating' to Its War Effort, Nominee for Top Pentagon Post Warns Derek Chollet's testimony on Capitol Hill comes as there appears to be no clear path in Congress to approving more aid for...
Top VA Executives Were Mistakenly Paid $9.7M in Bonuses. Now the Agency Faces Increased Oversight. The department said it would rescind the payments, which were awarded improperly to more than 170 career senior executives.
'Where Is the Accountability': Deplorable Condition of Military Barracks Sparks Outrage, Calls for Change on Capitol Hill Both Republican and Democrat lawmakers blasted the findings of last week's Government Accountability Office report on...
Will Congress Protect Troop Pay if the Government Shuts Down Sunday? For Now, That's Unclear Bills have been introduced in both the House and the Senate that would allow service members, including members of the Coast...
Government Shutdown Would Not Affect VA Medical Care and Most Benefits, Secretary Says As a result of advanced funding received from Congress, many VA services would not be affected by a shutdown, but furloughs...
Threat to Troop Paychecks Rises as Congress Fumbles Pentagon Bill and Lurches Toward a Government Shutdown Two times this week, House Republicans tried and failed to advance their fiscal 2024 Pentagon spending bill because of...
Pentagon Says Ukraine Training, Weapons Shipments Will Continue Despite Any Government Shutdown The aid is an "excepted" activity, meaning it is not dependent on lawmakers providing new funding for the Ukraine mission...
Leaders of Army, Marine Corps, Joint Chiefs Confirmed by Senate Amid Monthslong Blockade by Tuberville A Senate procedural maneuver by Tuberville this week forced Democrats to retreat from their earlier position -- that...
Army Set to Overhaul Length of Noncommissioned Officer Academies to Cut Costs The Advanced Leader Course, or ALC, and Senior Leader Course, or SLC, would be compressed from eight to 16 weeks down to just...
Air Force Bomb Techs Will Take Gender-Neutral Fitness Tests Beginning Next Month The changes come after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered in a March memo that all combat arms positions "must be sex...
Drill Sergeant Under Investigation After Having Soldiers Do Push-Ups Under MAGA Flag The Army has launched an investigation after a drill sergeant posted a video showing soldiers being hazed beneath a MAGA flag...
Trump's Controversial Pick for Pentagon Personnel Chief Confirmed by Senate Tata is a retired Army brigadier general whose post-military career includes serving as a school district administrator in...
Taller Boots, Shorter Eyelashes: Air Force Releases Stricter Uniform Guidelines The new set of rules comes amid a widespread push started earlier this year by Air Force leadership to place more emphasis on...
![Banner reading: In the event of a Government Shutdown, We Are Open](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-09/ApNewsroom_Spending%20Showdown.JPEG.jpg?itok=3S98eEUw "US Dept. of Veterans Public Affairs Specialist, Ron Bergen posts banners reading: In the event of a Government Shutdown, We Are Open," at the VA Medical Center West Los Angeles Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)")
![One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Georgia](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-07/mil-army-training-osut-fort-benning-1800.jpg?itok=SV_PURDB "Trainees experience day of One Station Unit Training, known as the "First 100 Yards," June 27, 2025 at Sandhill, on Fort Benning, Georgia. (U.S. Army photo by Patrick A. Albright)")
