TAP: DoD Transition Day, VA and Department of Labor Briefings The third stage of the DoD Transition Assistance Program (TAP) a series of briefings from multiple agencies: the departments...
Military Obesity Policies Need to Catch Up with Science, Look at New Weight Loss Drugs, Think Tank Says The Defense Department should classify obesity as a medical condition and use available treatments to help retain personnel...
'Don't Ask, Don't Test': The Military Needs a New Policy for Marijuana Use "As states adjust their laws, and as cultural forces shift, the military too must adapt."
New Study Provides Insight on Health Effects for Troops Who Got Myocarditis After the COVID Vaccine A French study found that patients who developed myocarditis after receiving the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines did not have the same...
Federal Judge Rules Defense Department Can't Ban HIV-Positive People from Joining the Military A judge whose previous decisions changed the rules for HIV-positive service members to commission and deploy issued the...
Army's Pier System Now Faces Second Watchdog Review After Troubled Gaza Mission Following the seemingly bungled Army mission establishing a pier off the Gaza Strip to deliver aid to the region, the...
Austin's Revocation of 9/11 Plea Deal Faces New Legal Blowback When the Pentagon announced last month that military prosecutors had entered into a plea deal with three accused Sept. 11...
New Military Blast Exposure Policies Direct Cognitive Testing, Keeping Instructors Farther from Fired Weapons New military recruits will get baseline cognitive testing and training instructors will have to stand farther away when some...
DoD's Policy on Telling Parents About Teens' Health Rankles Some Congressional Republicans As a result of changes made this year to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Defense Health Agency...
New Burn Pit Registry Aims for Data on 4.7 Million Veterans to Assist in Research on Exposure to Hazards The database, which will include basic and deployment-related information, will be available for scientific research on...
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...
