Cuts to Stateside Cost of Living Allowances Coming for Service Members as Other Pays Go Up Next year about 1,000 fewer troops will be getting an allowance intended to help them live in expensive parts of America, the...
COLA Reinstated for Service Members in Japan for the First Time in Months The latest change comes amid rapid currency fluctuations that led to the halting of the payments.
Billions Set Aside to Improve Military Housing in Government Spending Package Headed to Biden's Desk Mold, which is known to cause several health issues including breathing problems and skin infections, has been plaguing...
5 Ways to Cope With Grief This Holiday Season The thought of enduring the five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's without our loved one can be unbearable.
Pentagon Isn't Tracking Whether Privatized Housing Is Sickening Families, Watchdog Finds An internal Pentagon inspector general report released Dec. 9 estimated that less than .03% of the department's 211,826...
More than Half a Million Troops, Families, Exposed to 'Forever Chemicals,' Watchdog Group Says An internal DoD report published said roughly 175,000 people were affected each year, but an advocacy group says the number...
New Plan: Starting Over, Starting Early What if your resolution had nothing to do with fixing yourself?
You're Going to Have to Reconfirm Tricare Mail Order Refills Starting Jan. 1 In an effort to reduce waste and ensure timely refills, Express Scripts will now ask beneficiaries to approve prescription...
Are Military Holiday Party Expenses Tax Deductible? An officer and his wife feel obligated to host a holiday party, but wonder if they can write it off.
Why I Wish Your Spouse Would Deploy One of the rules of military life is that you never wish a deployment on anybody. You never wish that someone else’s husband...
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...
