Delay to Incentive Pay Boost for Guard and Reserves Draws Rebuke from Lawmakers At issue is a provision in last year's NDAA that required the DoD to give members of reserve components incentive pay equal...
National Guard Struggles with Duty Status and Benefits Reform as Suicide Rates Refuse to Decline The Guard's suicide rate has remained relatively unchanged for a decade as Pentagon planners are seemingly unable to get...
Should the National Guard Get Free Health Care? Gen. Hokanson Is Trying to Make it Happen The cost is giving lawmakers cold feet, and Hokanson's effort has gained little momentum despite his pleas to Congress.
Army Guard and Reserve Grapple with the Time Suck of Mandatory Online Training The Army requires soldiers to sit through roughly a dozen training courses per year, such as suicide prevention and cyber...
Operation Lone Star Troops Could Owe Feds Tax Money Thanks to State's Payroll Error The tax blunder is the latest strike against a state bureaucracy that has been strained under the weight and haste of Gov...
It's Hard to Figure Out Which Employers Are Actually Supportive of Part-Time Troops. This List Might Help. An advocacy group for part-time troops launched a new tool Friday aiming to measure what it means to be a military-friendly...
Guard And Reserve Retirement National Guard & Reserve members who complete a minimum 20 qualifying years of service become eligible for retired pay at age...
Reserve Income Replacement Program The Reserve Income Replacement Program pays Guard and Reserve members extra money when mobilized for extended periods.
Military Prepares as Hurricane Ian Bears Down on Florida As Ian grows in strength, the U.S. military is readying for the storm and its aftermath.
The National Guard Is Having a Nightmarish Time Keeping Soldiers and Recruiting New Ones This fiscal year, the Army Guard will miss its retention goals by about 14%, or roughly 4,800 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...