Senators' Latest Idea to Fix Military Recruiting Slump? Sharing Enlistment Data with High Schools The idea is intended to better track data that could be used to help sell military service as a career opportunity amid the...
How This 'Most Unfortunate' Civil War General Helped Give America the Statue of Liberty Charles Pomeroy Stone served as the statue’s chief engineer, and in that capacity, he was in charge of overseeing shipments...
Path Forward on Sweeping Veterans Bill Uncertain Amid Political Fighting A wide-ranging veterans policy bill that seeks to bolster home caregiver programs, provide more support for homeless veterans...
Texas Congressman Won't Stop Wearing Combat Infantryman Badge that Was Revoked More than a month after a news report revealed that the Combat Infantryman Badge Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wears on his lapel...
Traumatic Brain Injury Prevention Efforts Included in Must-Pass Defense Bill A growing body of evidence is showing that troops are at risk of exposure to potentially dangerous blasts not just from enemy...
The Military Was Combating Racism. Then, Congress Stepped In. Attacks on crucial DoD programs indicate to us that certain politicians will sabotage any of the military's efforts toward...
All Troops Could Have IVF Covered by Military Health Care Under Proposal in Must-Pass Defense Bill Under the amendment Tricare Prime and Tricare Select would be required to cover a range of fertility treatments, including...
Lawmakers Move to Defund US Military's Gaza Aid Pier After Torrent of Problems A pair of bills advanced last week in the House seeks to end the mission that was billed as the Biden administration's...
State Air Guard Units Could Be Moved to Space Force Despite Governors' Opposition Under Senate Proposal Late last month, the House Armed Services Committee's version of the NDAA made transferring those space-focused units...
Culture War Political Fights Resurface as House Approves 19.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise and Senate Eyes 5.5% For the second year in a row, the House approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, mostly along...
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...
