House Votes to Award Congressional Gold Medal to Troops Killed in Kabul Airport Blast The 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul in August are a step closer to receiving Congress' highest...
Bill Seeks to End 'Pink Tax' for Women Buying Uniforms A bill introduced by Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, aims to eliminate the "pink tax," or the higher...
Congress Faces Decision on Military Justice Overhaul The proposed changes create a legal process that eliminates influence on prosecutions by military commanders.
House Panel Spars Over Extremist Groups’ Recruiting of Veterans Experts testifying before the committee argued veterans make attractive recruits because of their military training.
US Troops Have Hundreds of Relatives Still Stuck in Afghanistan, and Congress Is Trying to Help At least 48 service members in the Army and Marine Corps are trying to help 509 relatives evacuate Afghanistan more than a...
Threat to Military Pay and Benefits Delayed as Congress Punts Debt Ceiling Debate Potential disruptions to military pay and benefits were averted Tuesday night -- at least for a couple more months.
Independent Review of Afghanistan War Failures Gets Backing of Key Senator A nonpartisan panel similar to the 9/11 Commission that examined the 2001 attacks on the U.S. could be a benefit, Sen. Jack...
Senators Tear into Pentagon Nominee to Oversee Chaplains as Being Anti-Christian Fulton is a West Point graduate who was the first openly gay member of the academy's Board of Visitors, and she has led...
Troubled Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Military, Public Servants Gets an Overhaul The Education Department said it will drop some of the toughest requirements around Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Coast Guard Officer Bonds with Congressional Leaders Through Hard Work and Beer Lt. Cmdr. James “JB” Zorn experienced many interesting assignments throughout his Coast Guard career.
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...
![Rep. Michael McCaul and Parker Young pose with U.S. troops](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2021-10/pub-michael-mccaul-and-parker-young-1800.jpg?itok=j6VXTS54 "House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and "United States of Al" star Parker Young pose with U.S. troops who approached them during a news conference in September to ask for help in getting their families out of Afghanistan. (House Foreign Affairs GOP Staff)")
