'Hire More Heroes' Offers Veterans Boost for Small Business Jobs The Hire More Heroes Act would boost veteran employment and give an edge to military retirees and disabled vets over other...
House Readies Emergency Bill to Continue Paying Troops During Shutdown The house is preparing contingencies to make sure that the troops continue to get paid in the event that negotiations break...
Clinton, Sanders Say They Oppose Cuts to Post-9/11 GI Bill Presidential Candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both issued statements opposing reductions to the Post 9/11 GI...
House Approves, But Doesn't Fund, IVF Services at VA The House passed legislation approving the VA to cover IVF treatments, but stopped short of providing funding for the...
Congress Moves to Reduce Loss of Guard Technicians Current law requires 20 percent of all military technicians be converted to federal civilian employees by Oct. 1, 2017.
House Votes Unanimously to Extend VA Choice Program for 6 Months The House on Friday revived and passed a bill to extend the Veterans Choice Program for six months.
Congress Seeks Out 'Wasteful' VA Spending Rep. Jeff Miller identified areas of "wasteful spending" by the VA during an online discussion hosted by Military.com.
Senator Says Congress Must Keep Empowering VA to Fire Bad Executives The new chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee says the new accountability law may need tweaking but discipline is...
House Passes Defense Bill, Defies Veto Threat from White House The U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense bill for 2016, but failed to garner enough votes to override an Obama veto...
House Panel Seeks to Increase Army Ranks by 45,000 Soldiers The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has introduced a bill that would increase the U.S. Army by 45K soldiers.
Tennessee Man Shot Dead After Flipping Middle Finger at War Memorial Albert Sturgill Jr., 63, was confronted by a group while gesturing at the flag and monuments at Cumberland County Veterans...
Chicago Braces for Potential National Guard Deployment Amid Trump Threats Illinois politicians are sounding an alarm and bracing for possible National Guard deployments to Chicago amid President...
9/11 Air Defense Stories You Might Not Know As hijacked planes turned into weapons on September 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York...
Is Trump's Troop Buildup in US Cities a Declaration of War — or Something Else? As President Donald Trump goads Democratic-led cities, Americans are grappling with a fundamental question of American...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...