New Benefit Reimburses Troops for Flying Family in to Help Watch Kids During PCS Moves The Pentagon is rolling out a new pilot program that provides travel benefits to service members to cover the cost of flying...
Navy Offers New Housing Allowance Alternative for Families, More Female Uniform Options The Navy will now allow sailors who change duty stations within the U.S. -- but choose to leave their families behind -- to...
Increase DoD Child Care Staff Pay 'as Quickly as Possible,' Senators Tell Austin Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Rick Scott, who lead oversight of Pentagon personnel policies, are pushing the department to...
Amid Latest Quality-of-Life Tweaks for Troops, Defense Secretary Says He Wishes He Could Move Faster SecDef Austin, along with first lady Dr. Jill Biden, traveled to Maxwell Air Force base in order to highlight the latest...
More Options, Better Predictability: What Military Households Want from Their Retirement Plans If a new survey is any indicator, building a plan for the execution stage of retirement is clearly on the mind of the...
Space Force Tuition Assistance Space Force members take off-duty college courses under the Department of the Air Force's Military Tuition Assistance program...
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...
Soldiers Who Didn't Receive Tuition Assistance Due to Tech Snafu May Be Reimbursed by Army Army IgnitED, which connects soldiers with federal funds to cover the cost of college courses and other credentialing...
Soldiers Hit with More Problems Accessing Education Benefits Amid Fall Enrollment Deadlines For at least a month, soldiers have been reporting issues accessing their benefits though Army IgnitED, an online portal that...
Navy Orders Forcewide Housing Inspections After Secretary 'Appalled' by Guam Barracks Conditions Navy Secretary Phelan visited Guam earlier this month and was "appalled" after seeing the conditions of an Air Force barracks...
Air Force Wants Private Company to Take Over its On-Base Hotels The Department of the Air Force, which includes the Space Force, will start accepting requests for proposals this summer...
2 Elite Marine Corps Pilots Reveal What It's Like to Fly a F-35B Fighter Jet In his role as a pilot with the Marine Corps air demonstration team, Maj. Craig Norris flew the F-35B Lightning II at...
Ken Burns Reveals Why He Chose to Tell the Story of 'The American Revolution' Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because...
Veterans’ Protests Planned for D-Day Latest in Nearly 250 Years of Fighting for Their Benefits Veterans were not always politically popular, nor were they treated well by the federal government.