5 Things to Start Your Week Here are five noteworthy news stories and events to start your week, from the editors at Military.com.
Army to Hold Steady on Force Size, Prioritize Missile Defense The Army plans to hold end-strength flat in fiscal 2018 to boost funding for armored forces in Europe and missile defense...
Trump Sets 2018 Military Pay Raise at 2.1% The levels are consistent with the president's federal budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.
Will Spending Showdown Affect You? Weeks after the year-end "fiscal cliff" showdown, the nation is already facing another high-stakes Washington debate.
Final Countdown to Sequestration Congress and the White House have until midnight to agree to a plan to replace sequestration, as Defense Secretary Hagel...
Pentagon Unveils $527B 2014 Budget DoD announced a 2014 base budget that would limit pay raises for military personnel, cancel and delay weapons systems, and...
Hagel: Cuts Will Force More Service Uniformity The DoD wants to develop more common personal gear and ground vehicles to save money in the new era of tight budgets.
Military 'Danger Pay' Still On Hold The DoD hasn't decided on whether troops in Afghanistan will keep receiving the extra $7.50 a day they rate for hazardous...
Vet Groups Scramble to Help Vets in VA Furlough Disabled American Veterans service officers began setting up Tuesday in local DAV posts, Department of Veterans Affairs'...
Shutdown Deal Protects Troop Pay for Few Months The deal presented by the Senate to end the U.S. government shutdown may only protect troops' paychecks for three months.
Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Against Time Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Attorneys for a class-action suit representing 9,000 veterans argued that a legal interpretation limiting retroactive Combat...
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...
ICE Arrests Louisiana Mother of 9-Week-Old, Wife of Marine at Immigration Hearing Since immigration agents detained his wife in New Orleans last month, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran has ferried the couple's 9...
The Marines Are in Los Angeles Around 200 Marines armed with rifles, riot control equipment, gas masks, roughly 20 hours of civil disturbance training and...
Sailor in Custody After Body of Missing Norfolk Seaman Found in Wooded Area A female sailor who went missing from a destroyer based in Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia has been found dead, the Naval...
