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.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
