Exchanges Resist Plan To Merge With Faltering Commissaries The goal is to make the commissaries profitable, reducing taxpayer subsidies for services most U.S. customers get off base
Arlington National Cemetery Is Running Out of Land and Wants Your Help Arlington is running out of land. The Army is seeking input on what to do about it to keep it open as long as possible
Many Medically Discharged Vets Missing Out on Rating Upgrade Congress established PDBR established after learning service branches had been low-balling thousands of disability ratings
VA Conducting New Study of OIF/OEF Veterans Survey seeks to gain insight into mental health issues of veterans who deployed to combat zones as well as those who didn't
Military SBP 'Compares Well,' Irking Widows Still Hit by Offset Study says SBP benefits “compare well with those of public and private plans.”
Free Legal Assistance For Discharge Upgrades Free online resource is a partnership of Stateside Legal and the Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic
Ailing 'Blue Water' Vets of Vietnam Near to Gaining VA Benefits Legislation is on fast-track for full vote.
VA Expanding New Holistic Health Programs New VA program emphasizes whole health and total body healing. Will it succeed or is it too touchy-feely for veterans?
One Symptom of a Rough 'Genesis' Rollout: Slow RX Fills on Base Joint DoD/VA health record system rollout causes delays at military pharmacies
Shanahan Advances Plan to Merge Commissary, Exchange Systems The planned merger has been talked about for years. Will something happen this time?
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...