After Years of Delays, Congress Prepares 2-Year Deadline for Pentagon to Finish Testing for ‘Forever Chemicals’ With less than one-third of nearly 700 locations through the identification process, Congress wants the timeline accelerated.
Commanding Officers Must Help Troops Get Mental Health Care Under New Legislation The provision is in response to the 2018 suicide of a sailor who was bullied by a supervisor and faced challenges receiving...
House Approves Defense Bill with Pared-Down Reforms The House voted 363-70 on Tuesday night to approve the $768 billion National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.
Troops Booted for Refusing Vaccine Guaranteed at Least a General Discharge Under Defense Bill The measure, which is almost certain to become law, comes as thousands of service members remain unvaccinated.
Pentagon UFO Rapid Response Teams Ordered Up by Congress The expansive measures come two weeks after the Pentagon announced a new group aimed at analyzing UAP (unidentified aerial...
Law Aimed at Helping Millions Exposed to Burn Pits and Toxins Would Cost at Least $282 Billion Bills introduced in Congress that would broaden eligibility for VA medical care and disability benefits would top $200...
Troops Would Get 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave as Part of Defense Bill Deal The final defense policy bill standardizes the benefits across the military branches and allows leave for birth, adoption and...
Gillibrand's Case for Sweeping Military Justice Reform Is Built on Misperceptions and Defective Data If lawmakers hope to find evidence-based advocacy in the letter from Gillibrand and her colleagues, they will be profoundly...
Congress Drops Effort to Add Women to the Draft Women will not have to sign up for a potential draft any time soon after an effort to add them to the Selective Service...
Lawmakers Are Worried a Major Military Justice Overhaul Is Going to Get Stopped At issue is a provision in the Senate version of the NDAA that would take the decision to prosecute most major crimes away...
4 Soldiers Charged in Alleged Sexual Assault in Barracks at Washington State Base Four soldiers have been charged in an alleged sexual assault that took place in the barracks at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in...
Fire Extinguished After 12-Hour Fight on USS New Orleans Off Okinawa Two sailors received minor injuries in the response, U.S. 7th Fleet officials said.
A Look at Those Trump Has Targeted in Tactic of Revoking Security Clearances The Trump administration's announcement this week that it would rescind the security clearances of 37 current and former...
Major Russian Attack on Western Ukraine Hits an American Factory During US-Led Push for Peace The aerial assault on a part of Ukraine that has largely avoided such focused attacks was one of Russia's biggest this year...
14 with Ties to Washington Deported to ‘Third Countries’ and Guantánamo Bay As the Trump administration lines up ever more countries to accept deported immigrants, a report to be released Thursday...
![Aircrew Aviation Electrician's Mate Striker Brandon Caserta, 21, died by suicide on June 25, 2018. An investigation found that leadership at Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28 in Norfolk, Virginia, "contributed" to his decision to take his own life. (Photo courtesy of the Caserta family](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2019-06/brandon-caserta-2400.jpg?itok=G3KKbaqh "Aircrew Aviation Electrician's Mate Striker Brandon Caserta, 21 died by suicide on June 25, 2018. An investigation found that leadership at Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28 in Norfolk, Virginia, "contributed" to his decision to take his own life. (Photo courtesy of the Caserta family)")
