Overseas Mail Privileges for Military Retirees Will Continue While Pentagon Reviews Policy A move to rescind domestic mail services for retirees and their family members living overseas remains on hold as the...
HIV Status Will No Longer Automatically Disqualify Troops from Deployment, Retention An update to the DoD's policy on HIV overturned a previous regulation that allowed commanders to involuntarily separate...
Austin Returns to Pentagon After Kicking Second COVID-19 Infection The decision to return was made after Austin tested negative for the virus on Sunday following a workweek of quarantining at...
Austin Catches COVID Again and Is Working from Home Austin, who is vaccinated, said he received the positive test results and had only mild symptoms from the virus.
After 2-Year Pandemic Break, Warrior Games Athletes Get Another Shot at Competition Hosted by the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, the 2022 Department of Defense Warrior Games are scheduled for Aug. 19-28...
Defense Department Keeping Its Autism Care Program Through 2028 The program, designed to help roughly 16,000 military children, will be continued as researchers determine how effective it...
Number of Monkeypox Cases in the Military Climbs Tenfold in Less than 4 Weeks The Defense Department has had 40 members diagnosed with monkeypox, including 26 active-duty personnel.
The New Pentagon Spokesperson Is an Air Force One-Star The Department of Defense announced Thursday that Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder will be the Pentagon's newest spokesperson --...
Military Faces National Guard Refusals and Legal Blockade over Disobeying COVID-19 Vaccine Order While many Guardsmen have outright refused to get vaccinated, some service members have put off getting inoculated while...
New Defense Department ID Cards Are Finally Compatible With TSA Security Since the new cards were rolled out in 2020, cardholders have been unable to use them for check-in at many U.S. airports.
Marine Sergeant Sentenced to Confinement, Dishonorable Discharge and Reduction in Rank for Lejeune Killing Dakota Honstein pleaded not guilty and was acquitted of the most severe charge -- murder, also known as Article 118 in...
Here Are All the Big Cuts and Changes Coming to the Army The service's aim is to streamline the force while investing in emerging technologies that Army officials say are critical to...
Problems with Privatized Household Goods Shipments Prompt Hegseth to Order Immediate Changes The directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth follows a rash of issues with a contract meant to privatize the Defense...
A Single Server Holds All Navy Pay and Promotion Data. DOGE Canceled a Contract to Upload It to the Cloud. The Navy has been in a yearslong struggle to modernize its critically important human resources computer systems that...
Cots, MREs, Per Diem: Army Offers New Details for Soldiers Sent to Massive D.C. Military Parade Thousands of soldiers flying or busing into Washington, D.C., next month will be sleeping on cots, eating mostly MREs (and...
