Not Just a Hike: Mountain Climb Helps Gold Star Families Heal Gold Star Peak has a reputation among surviving families and groups that support them as more than just a challenging hike.
These Surrogate Grandparents Serve to Remember the Fallen Half of the dozen volunteers who make up G.I. Grannies and Gramps for Soldier Support are also families of fallen troops.
Tricare Updates Rules to Address Concerns About Access to Care Officials announced an addition to a list of circumstances under which users will be permitted to switch plans.
DoD Needs to Better Monitor Tricare Care Providers: Report DoD officials need to make sure civilian health care providers are giving military families good care, according to a report.
Proposed Rule Would Expand Respite Care Access for Families With Special Needs A proposed military benefits policy update would give more military families with special needs access to respite care.
VA Opens New Research Center Focused on Veteran Caregivers A new Department of Veterans Affairs research hub will focus on veteran caregiver challenges and services.
Pentagon's Spouse Scholarship Site Still Down After Server Failure DoD officials are scrambling to develop a workaround after a host server for its military spouse scholarship program failed.
Lawmakers Ask Pentagon to Reverse New GI Bill Transfer Restrictions Lawmakers want the DoD to reconsider blocking troops with 16 or more years from transferring their post-9/11 GI Bill.
Free Spouse LinkedIn Premium Program Now Live Ready to get a free LinkedIn Premium account? The new benefit is now available.
More Dental Coverage, Spouse Employment Help Coming in Defense Bill This series of proposals is one step closer to becoming law.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-40-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...