Restoring Full VA Burial Benefits for Vets Who Initially Chose Plaque or Urn Part of Bill Introduced in Senate The bill would correct a flaw from previous legislation that lawmakers say has forced veterans' families to forgo a burial at...
As Pentagon's Top Health Nominee Prepares for Confirmation Hearing, One Senator Has a Lot of Questions Keith Bass, a retired Navy commander who previously led the White House Medical Unit and the CIA's medical service office...
Lawmakers Demand Trump Administration Restore Removed Webpages Celebrating Troops A group of Senate Democrats will be sending a letter demanding that President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete...
Lawmakers Try Again on Bill to Give 50,000 Medically Retired Veterans Full VA Disability, Retirement Pay The Major Richard Star Act, which has been floated since 2020, has the support of more than 40 veterans' organizations and...
Government Shutdown Averted, Money for Junior Enlisted Pay Raise Secured After Senate Passes Funding Bill Troop pay will be protected and money to cover an upcoming pay raise for junior enlisted service members will be secure after...
Senate Works to Avert Partial Government Shutdown Ahead of Midnight Deadline The Senate finds itself in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare as...
Military Leaders Warn of Risks to Armed Forces' Readiness in Temporary Funding Bill The vice chiefs of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force said that if they don't get additional funding, they at least...
Lawmakers File Bills to Create Space National Guard, Taking Trump Up on Promise The creation of a Space National Guard is getting a groundswell of support from Congress as bipartisan groups of lawmakers...
Fired Veterans and VA Employees Would Be Reinstated to Federal Jobs Under Senate Proposal Department of Veterans Affairs employees and veterans fired from other agencies as part of the Trump administration's...
GOP Plan to Avert Government Shutdown Would Fund Next Month's Junior Enlisted Pay Raise A House Republican plan to keep the federal government open past Friday by putting most agencies' funding on autopilot...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
