Wi-Fi for All Bases? Navy Weighs Quality-of-Life Improvements Amid Poor Living Conditions for Sailors in Shipyards The Navy's Quality of Service Cross-Functional Team has spent the last six months trying to improve conditions for sailors at...
Tax-Free Pay, 2-Year Leave of Absence for Parents Among Ideas Being Floated by House's Military Quality-of-Life Panel The quality-of-life panel was formed this congressional session to provide recommendations that could be included in next...
What's the Best Piece of Field Gear You've Ever Bought? We're surveying U.S. service members and veterans to find out what gear they use to supplement their standard-issue military...
Military Hunger: New Study Shows 1 in 8 Military Families Turned to Food Banks During the Pandemic Overall, data from 2020 and 2021 shows that more than 280,000 active-duty service members -- 24% of the military -- reported...
Data Brokers Are Selling Service Member Information for Pennies. It's a National Security Risk, Study Says Researchers found that the unregulated, multibillion-dollar industry poses a significant risk to national security -- and...
Crew Shortages, Bad Mattresses Causing Navy Surface Sailors to Lose Shut-Eye, Watchdog Says In a report to Congress this month, the Government Accountability Office said the service is not ensuring sailors get enough...
Marine Corps Barracks Issues Will Likely Take a Decade to Fix, But Work Is Underway, Commandant Says Commandant Gen. Eric Smith said he and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Carlos Ruiz have "crossed the line of departure" to...
Whiteman Air Force Base Is Scrambling to Find Out Why High Radon Levels at a Day Care Center Were Ignored An audit last month of radon sampling at the base revealed the 2022 findings "were not acted upon," a memo detailed.
Soldiers Are Getting Burned Out. Army Leadership Knows It's a Problem. In many cases, soldiers are spending more time away from home now than during the peak of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Does This Truck Make My Shipment Look Big? How to Avoid Weight Fraud During a Military Move "Some moving companies that have been entrusted to move household goods for military members and their families have learned...
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...
