The Defense Secretary and the Chain of Command: Why Critics Are Wrong About Austin's Emergency "Public officials should be careful not to convey to the world the mistaken impression that the United States is a helpless...
Defense Secretary Austin Summoned to Capitol Hill for Testimony About Secret Hospitalization If Austin agrees to testify, it could be the first public airing of his thought process since the Pentagon disclosed earlier...
Free Surgeries and Prescriptions: White House Staff Got Access to Military Health Care Despite Being Ineligible According to the report, from 2017 through 2020, the Defense Department "funded and resourced care for an average of 6 to 20"...
Defense Department Expands ID Card Renewals by Mail to US-Based Retirees, Dependents While in the past the renewed card had to be retrieved in person at a local ID card facility, it will instead be delivered by...
Pentagon Inspector General to Investigate Defense Secretary's Failure to Notify Key Officials of Hospitalization The DoD inspector general is an independent and objective agency, and its findings will be separate from those of the Office...
Austin's Secret Hospitalization Prompts Congressional Inquiry, Calls for Hearings Chairman Mike Rogers sent letters to Austin, his chief of staff and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks demanding a stack...
Defense Secretary Austin Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer that Led to Further Hospitalization for Infection The information on Austin's ongoing medical issues was released by doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in...
Inside the Pentagon's Failure to Notify the White House, Congress of Defense Secretary's Hospitalization Despite the Pentagon's explanation, it remained unclear exactly how or why Austin effectively hid a health emergency for...
New Arctic Pay for Troops Was Passed by Congress a Year Ago. But the Pentagon Waved It Off. More than a year after it was passed in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, the Pentagon has not enacted a new...
Barracks Repairs, Other Military Quality-of-Life Improvements Slam Into Congress' Upcoming Budget Fight Efforts to replace dilapidated housing and improve service members' quality of life could be kneecapped before they can even...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
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...
'It's a Lottery': Why Foreign Volunteer Fought in Russia-Ukraine War Jack de Santis is a Croatian-born volunteer of the Ukrainian army who used his engineering, drone expertise to help fight...
Army Vet Sentenced to Year In Prison For $80,000 Fraud, Stolen Valor Sharon Toney-Finch, 43, was indicted in April 2024 on four charges: wire fraud, stolen valor, theft of government funds, and...
Bravo Company Vietnam Veterans Honored with Long-Overdue Bronze Stars While it took more than five decades, 14 veterans of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, were...
