Marines Get More Troops, Keep Generals in Defense Budget The Marine Corps will get funding for 3,000 additional troops in the compromise version of the fiscal 2017 defense budget.
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Trump Budget Calls for 2.1% Military Pay Raise in 2018 President Donald Trump's first budget proposal included a 2.1 percent pay increase for military troops in fiscal 2018.
Senate Panel Backs 2.1% Troop Pay Raise, House Panel Wants 2.4% Troops would get a 2.1 percent pay raise in 2018 under the Senate Armed Services Committee's proposal.
Defense Cuts Complicate Obama's Second Term With the election behind him, newly re-elected President Obama will have to find a way to prevent the crippling defense cuts...
Sequestration to Shutter Commissaries Wednesdays The closings would impact all stateside commissaries and most commissaries overseas.
Military Families Ask Congress to End Budget Cuts Members of the National Military Family Association visited Capitol Hill and asked Congress to end sequestration.
Shutdown Snarls Troop Bonuses, Tuition Assistance Troops will still get regular paychecks amid the government shutdown, but may not receive other important forms of...
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops...
Deep Workforce Cuts at VA, Pentagon Backed by Republican Spending Bills House Republicans are on track to allow job cuts at the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs to proceed in the annual...
Army Officials Pushed Back on Pop-Up MAGA Shop Ahead of Fort Bragg Trump Speech Ahead of President Donald Trump's rally-style appearance at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Army officials raised...
Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet According to more than a dozen Guardsmen across four units who spoke to Military.com, none has received formal activation...
Pentagon Encourages Troops to Join Immigration Enforcement, Border Security Job Training Program Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to "prioritize and broadly advertise" opportunities troops who are nearing separation or...