VA to Begin Processing Burn Pit and Related Claims Under Landmark PACT Act on Jan. 1 The department has received more than 213,000 claims for benefits under landmark military environmental exposure legislation...
A Look at the New Veterans Headed to Congress in January Nineteen veterans will begin roaming the halls of Congress next week, contributing to one of the biggest classes of lawmakers...
Tricare Dental Program to Expand Choice of Carriers Under New Law Tricare Dental Program users will get to choose from up to four insurance carriers under new rules to be in place by 2026.
Guard Deployment Wasn't Intentionally Delayed on Jan. 6, House Committee Finds Investigators found no evidence that any one at the Pentagon deliberately delayed the deployment of the National Guard as the...
Billions Set Aside to Improve Military Housing in Government Spending Package Headed to Biden's Desk Mold, which is known to cause several health issues including breathing problems and skin infections, has been plaguing...
2023 Military Pay Raise Will Be the Largest in 20 Years The largest military pay raise in decades is coming in 2023 for active-duty troops as part of the annual defense...
Lawmaker Wants Answers About Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prosecutions Following Recruit Case House Homeland Security Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson said the service's failure to investigate a 2018 report shows the service...
Major Congressional Probe into Afghanistan Withdrawal Gearing Up The White House is said to be bracing for political turmoil as a result of the looming probe.
Vote to Reinstate 8,000 Troops Booted over Vaccine Fails, But the Mandate Is Dead in New Defense Bill The military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate is on the cusp of ending after the Senate approved the annual defense policy bill...
Largest Military Pay Raise In 20 Years Headed to Biden's Desk As Part of Defense Bill This year's National Defense Authorization, or NDAA, endorses a basic pay raise for 2023 of 4.6%, far higher than 2022's 2.7%...
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...
