Single Troops and Same-Sex Couples Will Have Access to Fertility Treatment Under New Pentagon Policy Court documents in a lawsuit filed against the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs say the DoD plans to finalize the...
Deployed Troops Could Get More Pay for Family Separation. But the Pentagon Is Dragging Its Feet. The FSA is typically an extra monthly $250 that a service member is paid "to defray a reasonable amount of extra expenses"...
In Reversal, Defense Department Now Wants to Bring Tricare Beneficiaries Back to Military Health System After seven years of reforms that included sending non-active-duty patients to civilian Tricare networks, the Pentagon wants...
Top Enlisted Leaders for Each Service Set to Testify on Quality-of-Life Issues at House Hearing The hearing is the first public meeting of the panel since a September hearing on housing conditions, and for some of the...
Spouse Employment Master Class: The Secret to Happiness? Military spouse employment is a challenge when you move every two or three years with your service member. For many spouses...
The State of Veteran and Spouse Hiring During the COVID-19 Pandemic Hire Heroes USA offers job services for veterans and transitioning military members. It compiles its work in an annual report...
Navy Redesigns Its Pregnancy Policy to Give Sailors More Choice, Career Stability The new policy says that sailors who become pregnant while on sea duty will now be able to choose two-year orders to a shore...
Army Investigating War College Child Care Center After Repeated Incidents of Inappropriate Touching The Army's Criminal Investigation Division, or CID, is investigating an incident in which a child was repeatedly touched...
Defense Department Expands ID Card Renewals by Mail to US-Based Retirees, Dependents While in the past the renewed card had to be retrieved in person at a local ID card facility, it will instead be delivered by...
Guilt-Free Flexibility: Do Top Employers Understand What Spouses Really Want? Is your company in the running for our 2024 list of Top Military Spouse Employers? Find out the special characteristics we...
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...
