7 Great Freebies for Military and Their Families Some military discounts include products or services you can get for free. Here are 7 examples of those freebies.
New Benefit Reimburses Troops for Flying Family in to Help Watch Kids During PCS Moves The Pentagon is rolling out a new pilot program that provides travel benefits to service members to cover the cost of flying...
Amid Latest Quality-of-Life Tweaks for Troops, Defense Secretary Says He Wishes He Could Move Faster SecDef Austin, along with first lady Dr. Jill Biden, traveled to Maxwell Air Force base in order to highlight the latest...
Okinawa Air Force Clinic Says It Gave 'Potentially Ineffective' Childhood Vaccines as First Day of School Looms The vaccines -- part of the recommended schedule of vaccinations for children -- were administered by the Kadena Immunization...
DoD's Policy on Telling Parents About Teens' Health Rankles Some Congressional Republicans As a result of changes made this year to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Defense Health Agency...
'Betrayal': Family of Toddler Abused at Navy Day Care Launches Claim that Service Negligently Mishandled Their Case The parents of a toddler who was physically and mentally abused by federal employees at a Navy day care in Hawaii two years...
Here Are 2 Ways to Get Free Online Military Counseling But how do you continue -- or start -- counseling when you can’t even get an appointment for a referral? Welcome to the world...
New Rule Gives Maximum Pell Grants to Children of Fallen Service Members A new rule takes effect July 1 that expands higher education benefits to more children of fallen service members, while also...
Housing and Child Care in the Same Building? Lawmakers Want Study of Idea to Ease Twin Problems Facing Troops As service members struggle with both housing availability and child care access, a bipartisan pair of lawmakers thinks they...
Military Must Focus on Efforts to Keep Its Child Care Employees to Shorten Waitlists, Watchdog Says In 2022, turnover within the DoD child care sector ranged from 34% at Marine Corps child care facilities to 50% turnover...
Veterans Who Lack Citizenship Fear Being Swept Up in Trump's Deportations Veterans are often promised that military service will be a fast-track to U.S. citizenship for themselves and their family...
How This Female Pilot Beat the Odds and Flew for the Air Force Thunderbirds Retired Air Force fighter pilot Michelle Curran flew for the Thunderbirds demonstration team from 2019 through 2021.
New Mexico's Health Care Crisis Is Forcing Military Personnel to Decline Assignments At New Mexico's three Air Force bases — Kirtland in Albuquerque, Cannon near Clovis and Holloman outside of Alamogordo — the...
The Future of Crewless Naval Warfare Is Being Built in New England This year’s Big Beautiful Bill, signed by President Donald Trump in July, allocated several billion dollars toward unmanned...
Department of Defense Memo Proposes Sweeping Reorganization of Acquisition Work A recent memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proposes a sweeping reorganization of defense acquisition work that would...
