Retirement-Trimming Budget Heads to Senate Floor The Senate on Tuesday agreed to vote on the budget deal that includes a reduction in cost of living adjustments for working...
Senate Passes Retirement-Trimming Budget Deal The Senate on Wednesday passed a bipartisan-crafted budget that eliminates certain sequester cuts to the Pentagon, but also...
Hagel Promises More Military Pay, Benefits Cuts Hagel pledged to continue efforts to cut the growth of military pay and benefits, despite the easing of the budget crunch.
Cyberwar Takes Center Stage in Defense Budget The $552.1 billion defense budget approved by Congress calls for new regulations on cyberweapons while dramatically boosting...
Pentagon Proposes Plan to Gut Commissary's Budget The Defense Department is discussing a $1 billion cut over the next three years in a move that could lead to widespread...
Vet Groups Vow to Fight Commissary Cuts Military family and benefits advocates plan to fight a Pentagon proposal to gut the commissary program by slashing funding.
Survey: Most Enlistees Don't Value Commissaries Most active duty troops, especially enlistees, don't value the commissaries as much as the government pays to operate them.
Senate Agrees to Vote to End COLA Cuts The Senate voted to end debate on legislation to repeal cuts to cost of living adjustments for working-age military retirees.
Troop Advocates Prep for Future Benefits Battles Fresh off a victory to undo military pension cuts, an officers' group is preparing for more legislative battles over the...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
