Military Obesity Policies Need to Catch Up with Science, Look at New Weight Loss Drugs, Think Tank Says The Defense Department should classify obesity as a medical condition and use available treatments to help retain personnel...
Federal Judge Rules Defense Department Can't Ban HIV-Positive People from Joining the Military A judge whose previous decisions changed the rules for HIV-positive service members to commission and deploy issued the...
Army's Pier System Now Faces Second Watchdog Review After Troubled Gaza Mission Following the seemingly bungled Army mission establishing a pier off the Gaza Strip to deliver aid to the region, the...
Austin's Revocation of 9/11 Plea Deal Faces New Legal Blowback When the Pentagon announced last month that military prosecutors had entered into a plea deal with three accused Sept. 11...
New Military Blast Exposure Policies Direct Cognitive Testing, Keeping Instructors Farther from Fired Weapons New military recruits will get baseline cognitive testing and training instructors will have to stand farther away when some...
National Guard Chief, VA Benefits Fix, Military Pay Raise: Here's What's Still on Congress' To-Do List as Recess Starts The National Guard will be without a Senate-confirmed leader until at least September after the Senate left for a five-week...
Funding for 5.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise Included in Senate's Pentagon Spending Bill A proposed 5.5% pay raise next year for junior enlisted troops has won the backing of a key Senate panel in charge of...
Army Doesn't Have Enough Soldiers for Potential Wars with China and Russia, Review Committee Says The Army is undermanned for a conflict with China or Russia, potential future fights that could expand across several...
Special Needs Military Families Report Mixed Feelings About Program to Help with Medical Care, Services The first-ever survey on the Defense Department's Exceptional Family Member Program found that Navy personnel are happier...
Defense Secretary Austin Says Kamala Harris Was Always Part of Major National Security Decisions Austin, a retired four-star Army general and now a civilian Cabinet member and Biden appointee, painted Harris as prepared...
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...
