Senators Seeks More Safeguards in JROTC Program After Reports of Sexual Abuse The bill, dubbed the JROTC Safety Act, comes after reports that instructors engaged in widespread sexual misconduct against...
No Abortions, Pride Flags or Transgender Care: Republicans Use Spending Bill to Block VA Policies The effort, made by GOP lawmakers in the annual VA spending bill, aims to stop the agency from following policies it sees as...
Lawmakers Pressure Air Force to Finally Make Space Command HQ Basing Decision Lawmakers are dialing up pressure on the Air Force to make a final decision about the permanent home for U.S. Space Command.
Biggest Troop Pay Raise in 2 Decades on Track in House Defense Bill Service members would get a 5.2% pay raise next year under the House Armed Services Committee's draft of the annual defense...
Why Congress Should Support the Marine Corps' 250th Anniversary Coin Act A bipartisan group of Marine veterans serving in Congress introduced "The 250th Anniversary of the United States Marine Corps...
House Defense Bill Expected to Expand Food Allowance for Needy Troops The House's draft version of the bill, set for release later this month, is expected to include legislation that would allow...
House GOP Claims Pride Month Flags at VA Facilities Are 'Discrimination, Political Posturing' In a letter to VA Secretary Denis McDonough, House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost, and 30 other House...
5.2% Troop Pay Raise in 2024 Gets Support as Debt Ceiling Fight Subsides Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand urged the leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee to ensure that this year's National Defense...
Afghan Allies Would Get More Visas, More Time to Apply Under Proposal by Senators A new bill seeks to bring stability to the visa program for Afghans who helped U.S. troops by nearly doubling the number of...
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...
