2025 Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) Rates Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) pays for the cost of a military member's meals when dining at their permanent duty...
Basic Allowance for Subsistence Gets Record Increase in Upcoming Year The BAS increase is the largest in more than a decade.
Why Do Enlisted Personnel Get More BAS Than Officers? This is one of the few times rank doesn't have its privileges.
2019 Military Pay Raise Amounts Released Most military members will see a bump in their Jan. 15 paychecks.
Upcharging on Food, Selling Booze: The Army's Plan to Privatize Dining The Army is preparing to overhaul its food service system in a move that could strip away government-run dining facilities...
Pentagon Plans $5 Billion for Border, Bets on Trump Bill to Fill Funding Gaps The budget plans for fiscal 2026 were released as President Donald Trump is pursuing mass deportations across the country and...
Pentagon Presses Iran Strike Claims as Briefed Senators Point to Unknown Effects A Pentagon press conference ordered by President Trump quickly turned contentious, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Warns Against Further American Attacks in His First Statement Since Ceasefire Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said his country had delivered a "slap to America’s face” with its strike on an...
Air Force Academy Cadets Arrive for Basic Training, Encouraged to Cultivate Intensity and Courage More than 1,000 cadets flowed up the stairs at the Holaday Athletic Center at the Air Force Academy to start chasing their...