Should the National Guard Get Free Health Care? Gen. Hokanson Is Trying to Make it Happen The cost is giving lawmakers cold feet, and Hokanson's effort has gained little momentum despite his pleas to Congress.
Army Guard and Reserve Grapple with the Time Suck of Mandatory Online Training The Army requires soldiers to sit through roughly a dozen training courses per year, such as suicide prevention and cyber...
The National Guard Is Having a Nightmarish Time Keeping Soldiers and Recruiting New Ones This fiscal year, the Army Guard will miss its retention goals by about 14%, or roughly 4,800 soldiers.
Guardsman Who Worked in Federal Fraud Office Charged with Stealing $260,000 in Multiple Schemes He is charged with 18 counts related to allegations of lying to get a military housing allowance, unemployment and retirement...
Military Faces National Guard Refusals and Legal Blockade over Disobeying COVID-19 Vaccine Order While many Guardsmen have outright refused to get vaccinated, some service members have put off getting inoculated while...
29th Infantry Division Keeps Historic Patch Despite Nod to Service in the Confederate Army The patch, introduced during World War I, is a blue and gray yin and yang, referencing the merger of old Union and...
What Does the Guard Do with 40,000 Unvaccinated Soldiers? No One Knows The numbers pose a daunting challenge to the Pentagon, which mandated vaccination against COVID-19, as it does to counter...
Texas Guardsman Drowns After Rescue Attempt During Border Mission Spc. Bishop Evans went into the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass, Texas, while attempting to rescue two drowning migrants.
Source: Guardsman Who Rioted on Jan. 6 Being Removed from Service, But Still Drawing a Paycheck It is unclear why 7 months after his guilty plea, the Wisconsin Guard has allowed Abram Markofski to continue his service.
National Guard Troops Were Dispatched to Famous Texas Ranches with Private Security as Part of Border Mission Earlier this year, about 30 Texas National Guard members were ordered to stand watch outside some of the wealthiest private...
Class-Action Suit over Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Goes Before Supreme Court The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Soto v. United States, a case that challenges a six-year limit on back pay for...
Veterans Reunite with 'Precious Cargo' 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon One woman's quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have...
48 Hours with Marines and Soldiers on the US Southern Border Amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, military assets and personnel are increasingly being relied upon for a...
'Everything Is on the Table': Army Eyeing Expansion of Privatized Barracks As part of a pilot program, construction is expected to begin this summer on a new privately managed facility at Fort Irwin...
Army Suspends Fort McCoy's First Female Commander Amid Trump Portrait Display Controversy The incident, which sparked a wave of right-wing criticism, centered on the base's chain of command wall display -- a common...
![Marines at the border wall](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/staff-border-wall-marines-wire-1800.jpg?itok=a3dIOHTu "Marines were deployed here to reinforce barriers during President Donald Trump's first term, but they were not armed with the long guns their Guardian Angels carry now, NPR reported. An old policy from the very unit these Marines come from said Guardian Angels must watch over their units' security with an "ambush mentality." (Drew F. Lawrence/Military.com)")
