How to Avoid the Military 'COLA Trap' by Getting Smart About Your Retirement Date To understand how pay inversions happen, you'll need to get your head around how your retirement will be calculated.
Navy Unveils System Meant to Counter Pay Delays, Other Paperwork Holdups The Navy has rolled out a dashboard that will give leaders at every command the ability to see an overview of their sailors'...
Senators Push DoD to Do 'Proactive' Outreach to Soldiers Booted from Tricare in IT Glitch The leaders of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are calling on the DoD to conduct a review of Tricare after recent...
Tricare Will Pay for More Dialysis Services Following COVID-Linked Rise in Kidney Disease Express Scripts has started sending out notices asking Tricare patients to confirm their mail-order prescription refills.
Army Unveils New Parental Leave Policy After Long Debate on Denials The policy grants 12 weeks of leave for new mothers and fathers, including adoptive and foster parents on active duty or full...
Marines Roll Out Expanded Parental Leave Policy The Corps' version of the policy does not substantially differ from the other military branches as it allows Marines to take...
'That Pisses Me Off': Congressman to Lead Panel on Struggles for Troops Focusing on Pay, Food Insecurity Boosting pay for junior enlisted service members and improving military housing conditions will be among the priorities of...
New Defense Health Director Pledges to Focus on Patients as 'Human Beings' Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland's experiences while serving as deputy Army surgeon general and as a family physician will influence...
Tricare Beneficiaries Are Suffering. The Biden Administration Refuses to Hear Them Out. "Nearly a quarter of a million men and women of the United States armed forces, military retirees and their families are at...
Soldiers Need to Check If Their Families Have Health Care After IT Snafu Kicked 25,000 Beneficiaries Off Tricare Twenty-five thousand Tricare beneficiaries were removed from coverage on Jan. 16 due to an error related to the service's new...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
Coast Guard Set to Receive New Icebreaker by Year's End, Bolstering US Presence in Arctic The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic...
Marine Corps F-35C Was Used in Combat for First Time to Strike Houthis, Military Confirms Traveling at speeds of 1,200 mph, the F-35C can carry Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, air-to-air missiles and other...
Military Diversity Is Not the Problem "The main reason for concern about the U.S. military and its performance has to do with the variety of U.S. commitments and...
MacDill Airman Gets 5 Years Of Probation in 'Undead Apes' Blockchain Fraud U.S. District Judge William Jung sentenced Devin Rhoden to five years’ probation, a reflection of Rhoden’s substantial...