Army Boosting Promotion Points for Expert Badges and Cutting Those for Fitness Test Performance The changes go into effect for the June 2023 promotion month.
Coast Guard Suspends Policy That Booted Troops Who Weren't Promoted Quickly Enough The move comes as Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan has pledged to make workforce management a top priority.
Navy Gets New Top Enlisted Sailor Who Promises to Focus on Sailors' Needs and Their Families Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy James Honea has taken over for now-retired Master Chief Russell Smith.
Air Force Staff Sergeant Promotions Lowest in Years, Part of Bigger Slowdown Only 21% of eligible airmen were chosen for promotion.
Navy Will Offer Chiefs Promotions to Go to Sea -- or the George Washington -- in New Program The Navy rolled out a new program Friday that offers promotions to senior and master chief petty officers in exchange for...
Marines Will Finally Have Their First Black Four-Star General The Marine Corps announced that Lt. Gen. Michael Langley has been confirmed to head U.S. Africa Command and will be promoted...
Air Force to Promote Fewer Noncommissioned Officers as Worries About Inexperience Grow The service attributed the decrease in promotion opportunities to restructuring, a decrease in end-strength numbers and...
Why Ulysses S. Grant Might Be Getting a Promotion Soon Some members of Congress think it's time to elevate Grant to the Army's highest rank, on par with George Washington.
In Reshaping the Force, Marines Let Officers Skip Promotion Boards An administrative message announced that eligible officers will be able to opt out of major, lieutenant colonel and colonel...
Senior Army Enlisted Can Soon Be Temporarily Promoted Without NCO Schooling Noncommissioned officers who haven't yet graduated from the Army's Master Leader Course may still get promoted beginning next...
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...
Camp Pendleton Officer, Wife Sue Military Housing Company over Crash That Killed 8-Year-Old Son A Marine Corps family whose 8-year-old son died last year after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle on Camp...
Coast Guard to Launch Service-Wide Physical Fitness Test for All Members Next Year Coast Guard men and women must take a preliminary assessment by the end of this year and a mandatory PFT starting in 2026.
How the Men on a Navy Submarine Survived After Sinking 240 Feet in the Atlantic Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus...
Rubio Says US Is Designating 2 More Gangs as Foreign Terrorist Groups The two new designees, Los Lobos and Los Choneros, are Ecuadorian gangs blamed for much of the violence that began since the...
