Concurrent Receipt Expansion Efforts Falter Over the last two years, amid the debt crisis and federal budgets cuts through the 2011 Budget Control Act, support for...
Legion Disappointed With 1-Percent Pay Cap The American Legion's new national commander, Michael D. Helm, took issue with President Obama's support for a 1-percent pay...
Gains in Military Pay and Benefits Stalled in 2013 2013 seemed to leave a high water mark on the wall of more than a decade of steady gains to pay and benefits.
Shutdown Stings Military Multiple Ways The shutdown is stinging military communities, and the hurt is enhanced by the tough budget choices forced by sequestration.
Military Pay App Updated The Military.com pay app, available for both iOS and Android devices, has been updated now with 2017 approved pay rates, pay...
COLA Cap Relief Tied to a Rocket or Falling Star? Senate Democrats have tied repeal of the COLA cap for working-age retirees to a mammoth veterans' health and benefits bill.
The Case Against Pay Caps, Higher TRICARE Fees The Military Coalition offered arguments against pay caps and TRICARE fee increases before a Senate subcommittee.
COLA Cap Repealed, Except for New Entrants Bowing to colossal pressure, Congress repealed the retiree COLA cap it enacted only six weeks ago.
House Panel Rejects Pay Cap, Most TRICARE Hikes A House panel rejected the administration's call to cap the 2014 pay raise at one percent.
DoD’s Balk on Compensation Reform Irks Commission DoD's lack of ideas for pay and benefits reform upset the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission.
Class-Action Suit over Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Goes Before Supreme Court The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Soto v. United States, a case that challenges a six-year limit on back pay for...
Veterans Reunite with 'Precious Cargo' 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon One woman's quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have...
48 Hours with Marines and Soldiers on the US Southern Border Amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, military assets and personnel are increasingly being relied upon for a...
'Everything Is on the Table': Army Eyeing Expansion of Privatized Barracks As part of a pilot program, construction is expected to begin this summer on a new privately managed facility at Fort Irwin...
Army Suspends Fort McCoy's First Female Commander Amid Trump Portrait Display Controversy The incident, which sparked a wave of right-wing criticism, centered on the base's chain of command wall display -- a common...
![Marines at the border wall](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/staff-border-wall-marines-wire-1800.jpg?itok=a3dIOHTu "Marines were deployed here to reinforce barriers during President Donald Trump's first term, but they were not armed with the long guns their Guardian Angels carry now, NPR reported. An old policy from the very unit these Marines come from said Guardian Angels must watch over their units' security with an "ambush mentality." (Drew F. Lawrence/Military.com)")
