Military Barracks Are Falling Apart. Senators in Big Military States Want to Know the Price Tag to Fix Them. A bipartisan group of senators representing states with significant military footprints is pressing the Pentagon for an...
Closing a Chapter of History, Last Army Base Ditches Confederate Namesake Following Years-Long Effort The Army on Friday redesignated the last of nine installations that had been named after Civil War-era Confederates...
Got Complaints About the Barracks or Dining Hall? Now There's an App for That Amid widespread criticism and complaints about military barracks, cafeterias and dorms, one former Army reservist is hoping...
Army Plans Boost in Barracks Spending as Military Grapples with Squalid Living Conditions The Army is crafting a new plan to improve barracks following mold and health issues, as well as a damning report from a...
Too Heavy to Fight? How the Army Is Combating the Obesity Crisis to Find Recruits Pvt. David Dean weighed 320 lbs. when he went to visit a National Guard recruiter. A West Virginia plumber by trade, he...
After Hurricane Idalia, Military Bases Return to Normal and National Guard Gets to Work Military installations in Florida and up the Atlantic Coast are starting to return to normal after Hurricane Idalia tore...
Army Scrubs Fort A.P. Hill, Renaming Base in Honor of Female Medal of Honor Recipient The move comes after seven other installations have been scrubbed of their namesakes honoring Confederate figures who seceded...
The Shame of Liberty: How the Lazy, Safe Renaming of Fort Bragg Wasted an Opportunity The renaming of Fort Bragg, mandated by Congress and formalized in a ceremony in June, was an opportunity to remind not only...
Bad Air: Military Across East Coast Deals with Smoke Pollution from Canada Springtime winds carried the massive trail of smoke across parts of the continental U.S. -- and directly over several large...
Army Avoids War Hero Names as Fort Bragg Instead Becomes Fort Liberty Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was redesignated as Fort Liberty on Friday, marking it as the only major Army base not having a...
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...
