How Trauma Before Service is Shaping a Generation of Troops Acknowledging the prevalence of pre-service trauma -- and how it affects adult service members -- can be helpful for many...
Millions of Vets Got Health Care and Benefits Under the PACT Act. Thousands Left Out Want the Same Chance. Legislation passed in 2022 expanded benefits for former troops sickened by burn pits, Agent Orange and contaminated water at...
Army General Pressured Assessment Panel to Help Career of 'Ineffective' Officer A Military.com investigation found that Gen. Charles Hamilton spent about a month last year trying to pull strings behind the...
The Next Frontier for Warfighters Might Be Implants in Their Brains. Is the Pentagon Ready for the Consequences? The potential medical applications of access to the brain for treating ailments are far-ranging, but pressure to compete with...
'Last Stop USA': How the Army Is Trying to Fill in for a Broken Education System Test scores, which were already falling before the pandemic, took a nosedive, and recent years have seen a blitz in teacher...
The Threat from Extremist Groups Is Growing. Service Members and Vets Are Getting Sucked into the Violence. The U.S. intelligence community deemed racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism -- with adherents such as white...
How 2 American Veterans Ended Up in Ukraine, Prisoners of Russian-Armed Militants The untold story of how two American vets, now captives of Putin’s allies, ended up fighting in Ukraine.
Service Was a Second Chance for the Space Force's Enlisted Leader. He Tried to Give Others the Same Shot. During his 33-year career, Roger Towberman was stationed everywhere from Hawaii to the United Kingdom until he was selected...
They Graduated Space Force Boot Camp. What Comes Next for Them, and the Service, Is Less Clear. Space Force continues to carve out its own identity after being created in 2019.
How Do You Create a Guardian? A Look Inside Space Force's First Specialized Basic Training Over three months, Military.com interviewed more than a dozen Guardians, drill sergeants, recruiters and officers, and...
'He's Going to Have to Explain It': Surprise Defense Secretary Pick's History Takes Center Stage Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's surprise pick to be the next defense secretary, has an extensive history of...
'It Could Be Very Hard to Do Our Job': Top Military Officers Brace for Trump's Potential Loyalty Review Boards The Wall Street Journal reported on a draft executive order that is under consideration by the Trump transition team that...
2 Navy Destroyers Attacked by Barrage of Houthi Drones, Missiles Off Yemen Coast The attack on the ships was the latest in months of violence in the region by the Yemen rebels, who are backed by Iran and...
What to Know About Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's Pick to Be Director of National Intelligence Gabbard is a veteran who served for more than two decades but doesn't have the typical intelligence experience of past...
Trump Won. Here's What That Could Mean for the Military. Trump's election victory means he will have the opportunity to enact plans to use the military against what he calls domestic...