Soldiers Need to Check If Their Families Have Health Care After IT Snafu Kicked 25,000 Beneficiaries Off Tricare Twenty-five thousand Tricare beneficiaries were removed from coverage on Jan. 16 due to an error related to the service's new...
Army Still Working on Mandated Parental Leave Policy, Doesn't Want to Have to 'Redo It and Create Confusion' The Army has yet to release a new parental leave policy, meaning new parents are in limbo as the service is one of the last...
Military Members and Spouses Could Avoid State Income Taxes Thanks to New Law Changes are here, and they could mean thousands of dollars more, or less, in taxes for military families.
Millions of Tricare Users Must Approve Mail-Order Prescription Refills Starting Now Express Scripts has started sending out notices asking Tricare patients to confirm their mail-order prescription refills.
The Military Must Do More to Help Junior Service Members Find and Pay for Child Care In the military, one of the most stressful parts of relocating to a new assignment, second only to finding a home, is...
Sailors Can Finally Use New Family Leave Policy After Weeks of Delays, While Soldiers Still Wait The Navy finally released its formal policy memo outlining new parental leave benefits built into a federal law that went...
5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Buy a Home A mistake in buying a home can jeopardize your financial flexibility and health, and the stakes continue to grow. Ask...
80% of Families Who Filled Out Survey on Red Hill Have Had Health Problems They Blame on the Fuel Spill Surveys conducted by an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the fuel leak wreaked havoc on physical...
Military Families Stressed by Delay in Parental Leave Rules from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps The services need to issue specific guidance to their formations before the rules can be used by the rank and file.
'Widow's Tax' on Survivors Will Be Completely Gone as of Feb. 1 Benefit Checks The surviving spouses of military retirees who receive income from two separate benefit programs will no longer have their...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...
Camp Pendleton Officer, Wife Sue Military Housing Company over Crash That Killed 8-Year-Old Son A Marine Corps family whose 8-year-old son died last year after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle on Camp...
Coast Guard to Launch Service-Wide Physical Fitness Test for All Members Next Year Coast Guard men and women must take a preliminary assessment by the end of this year and a mandatory PFT starting in 2026.
How the Men on a Navy Submarine Survived After Sinking 240 Feet in the Atlantic Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus...
Rubio Says US Is Designating 2 More Gangs as Foreign Terrorist Groups The two new designees, Los Lobos and Los Choneros, are Ecuadorian gangs blamed for much of the violence that began since the...
