In a First, Public Health Officers Receive DoD Humanitarian Medal Members of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps received the Humanitarian Service Medal for hurricane response.
With Retirement System Opt-In Numbers Low, Officials Make Final Push Only about 19 percent of the 1.6 million troops eligible to switch into the DoD's new Blended Retirement System have done so.
US Plans Changes to Exercise Foal Eagle with South Korea The Defense Department is changing up a major exercise it holds annually with South Korea, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said...
Lethal Force Not Part of White House Authorization for Border Troops, Mattis Says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis weighed in on a late-night memo from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Troops Sent to Border Could Start Pulling Back Before Christmas The troops deployed to the border to help stop migrants seeking to enter the U.S. could begin "downsizing" before Christmas.
Aviation Accident Spike Has Services Scrambling for Solutions The military service safety centers are combing through data to uncover trends that are contributing to a spike in accidents.
Millions in Cost Overruns Hit Effort to Merge VA, Military Health Records A project to provide common electronic health records for the VA and the DoD has been hit with a $350 million cost overrun.
How Mattis Made the Whole Military Obsessed with 'Lethality' The U.S. military has made lethality the lone benchmark under the leadership of Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Pentagon Nuclear Recap Programs May Slow with Democrats in House The Democrats' takeover of the lower chamber may create aggressive oversight of nuclear programs in development.
Top US General Defends Deployment of Troops to Border as Legal Dunford spoke out against several retired generals who have criticized the deployment of active-duty troops to the border.
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...
