Unfairly Discharged from the Military? New Review Board Offers One Last Chance at Appeal The Pentagon announced it has created a new route for service members who separated on or after Dec. 20, 2019, to appeal...
Defense Secretary Fires Back at GOP Lawmaker Charging Pentagon with Bad Call on Ukraine and 'Woke-ism' Rep. Matt Gaetz pressed Austin about a lecture on democratic socialism at the National Defense University that became a...
Defense Department Isn’t Reviewing Doctors, Putting Patients in Danger, Watchdog Says The Government Accountability Office has found inconsistencies in the Pentagon’s reviews of provider licenses and evaluations...
Military's Bloody Battle for Raqqa Seen as ‘Cautionary Tale’ as Pentagon Promises to Limit Civilian Deaths The U.S. military could have done more to protect civilians trapped in Raqqa, Syria, the Rand Corp. found in a Pentagon...
Plans for Hospital Closures as Part of Military Health System Reform Forging Ahead After Pause Planned facilities realignment and closures, along with staff cuts, have been on pause since the start of the pandemic.
Pentagon Asks for Another $1 Billion for Red Hill Facility that Tainted Water in Hawaii The money would go toward a fund that would let the department "quickly and flexibly address the health, environmental, and...
Troops Slated for Largest Pay Raise in 20 Years Under Pentagon Budget but Inflation Looms Troops and civilian workers would get a 4.6% pay raise under a Pentagon budget request, a sharp boost from the 2.7% increase...
A Sign of the Times? DoD Skips Publishing Weekly COVID-19 Numbers Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that no decision had been made on how often the numbers will now be published.
Classified US Intelligence Chat Rooms a 'Dumpster Fire' of Hate Speech, Says Ex-NSA Contractor An internal U.S. intelligence messaging system became a "dumpster fire" of hate speech during the Trump administration, an...
Pentagon Shuttering Hawaii Fuel Storage Facility that Leaked and Sickened Military Families Prior to the announcement, the Pentagon had resisted Hawaiian demands to close the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility.
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...