Senate Backs 1.6% Troop Pay Raise, BAH Cuts, Health Care Reform The Senate has approved a defense bill that calls for a 1.6 percent military pay raise and reduced housing allowances.
Air Force Get More Airmen, No Extra Planes in Defense Bill The Air Force would add 4,000 airmen next year -- but no extra warplanes -- under the compromise defense bill.
Aboard Ford, Trump Promises 12 Carriers, Record Navy Growth President Trump swapped his signature red "Make America Great Again" ballcap for one bearing the seal of the USS Gerald R...
Navy Gets 4K More Sailors, Eight More Ships in Budget Request While all eyes are on the Navy's hopes to surge the fleet, the biggest surprise in the budget request may come in manpower.
Failure to Act on Watchdog Recommendations May Cost DoD Billions: IG The Pentagon's failure to act on recommendations has cost at least $33B since 2006, the Pentagon's Inspector General reported...
Panetta Authorizes Hiring Freezes, Furlough Plans "We're on the brink of creating a hollow force, the very thing we said we must avoid," Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dempsey...
Army Details Where Sequestration Will Hit Hardest Army leaders say sequestration will affect everything from the reduction of day care hours to the dealy of weapons programs.
Furlough Days Cut: Exceptions in Works More than 700,000 Defense Department civilian personnel will now be subject to 14 furlough days from June through September...
Army to Cut a Dozen Brigades in Huge Restructuring The U.S. Army plans to cut at least a dozen brigades over the next five years as part of a large-scale restructuring.
Lincoln Starts Overhaul Amidst Budget Pressures Following some budget delays, U.S. Navy officials and shipbuilders with Huntington Ingalls Industries are now surging through...
Caregivers Sue VA over Denial of Benefits Survivors of veterans who died from service-connected conditions have filed a class action seeking changes to a VA practice...
Marine Corps Ranks: A Complete Guide to Enlisted and Officer Ranks Explore U.S. Marine Corps ranks from private to general. Learn rank structure, pay grades, insignia and promotion paths in...
Homeowners Say the Army Corps and its Contractors Mishandled LA Fire Debris Cleanup More than 800 complaints were submitted to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hotline dedicated to the agency's debris removal...
Japan Marks End of World War II as Survivors Remember Wartime Emperor's Surrender Speech 80 Years Ago A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded...
Flights Restricted over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit North American Aerospace Defense Command issued a statement saying it would be enforcing Federal Aviation Administration...