Senator: Find $2B to Undo Troop Benefit Cuts A leading Republican senator is asking his colleagues to find $2 billion in the budget to offset reductions to pay and...
Amos: Tough Road Ahead For Dunford as Commandant Gen. James Amos outlined budget and personnel challenges ahead for his successor as Marine commandant.
Congress Agrees to Troop Pay, BAH Cuts in Budget Compromise The deal on the 2015 defense budget would mean more out-of-pocket healthcare costs and lower pay increases for troops.
VA Seeks to Reallocate Choice Act Funds in $169B Budget Proposal The Veterans Affairs Department would be funded to nearly $169 billion next year under the budget proposed by the White House...
Special Operations Leaders Voice Sequestration Concerns Challenges caused by limited resources, fiscal uncertainty and the changing nature of threats have forced the military's...
House Wants to Cut Army’s M9 Replacement Money The Army's effort to replace its M9 9mm pistol with a new Modular Handgun System may be facing a hurdle now that lawmakers...
Lawmaker: Congress Receptive to New Round of Military Base Closures The ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee opened the door to shuttering unused military bases and...
Pentagon Can Only Hope to Keep Paying Troops, Carter Says Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says he wants to keep paying the troops but can only offer hope on a budget resolution.
Navy Budget Confirms Plans to Cut Purchases of Littoral Combat Ships The U.S. Navy plans to reduce its Littoral Combat Ship buy from 52 to 40 vessels over the next five years, according to the...
Mabus Details Plans to Locate Seabasing Ships Near Japan, South Korea Two of the U.S. Navy's newest seabasing platforms will be located near Japan and South Korea, the secretary of the Navy...
Military Moves Ships, Aircraft to Middle East as Senator Seeks to Stop US Action Against Iran The U.S. military has moved additional ships and tanker aircraft into the Middle East and hurried a carrier to the region...
‘They’re Taking Shirly’: An Army Sergeant Thought His Family Was Safe. Then, ICE Deported His Wife. For tens of thousands of U.S. service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from...
Air Force's Bunker-Buster Bomb Could Take Out Iran Nuclear Facility, But Israel Hints at Other Options The Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the centrifuges deep...
The Army Parade Was Marked by Quiet Crowds, Trump-Linked Sponsors. But Soldiers Kept Politics at Bay. Despite the mixed feelings, the Army birthday parade was also an overdue opportunity to engage with the public and highlight...
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...