Tricare May Boost Allowance for Urgent Care Visits Without Referrals DoD's Tricare program may increase the number of urgent care visits some beneficiaries can access without a referral.
GAO Denies Protest Over Major Tricare Change A plan to consolidate Tricare's three regions into two is set to go ahead after the GAO announced it denied a series of...
Air Force: 135 Patients May Have Been Exposed to HIV, Hepatitis The U.S. Air Force is notifying 135 patients who received colonoscopy or endoscopy procedures at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
Marine Quarantined at Home as Ebola Precaution A Marine at the Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, Texas, has quarantined himself at home as a precaution against the Ebola...
Ebola Mission Troops on Emergency Leave May Skip Quarantine Troops returning from Africa on emergency leave will be allowed to skip medical isolation on a case-by-case basis, Maj. Gen...
Pentagon's Budget Proposal Increases Costs to Families A series of changes proposed in the president's annual budget plan looks to drastically change Tricare, increase health care...
Pentagon Now Says Army Mistakenly Sent Live Anthrax to All 50 States A probe into the service's mistaken shipments of live anthrax spores has widened to all 50 states, nine countries and 194...
Will Tricare Reforms Improve Access, Raise Fees or Both? Reform plans in Congress are moving away from the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission...
Cockpit Hypoxia 'Number One Safety Issue' for Naval Aviation The US Navy has yet to solve a pattern of hypoxia-like symptoms in the cockpit among pilots of F/A-18 Hornet and EA-18G...
Hagel Mulls Banning Smoking in Military Defense Secretary Hagel gave his support to moves by the services to consider banning tobacco sales on bases and ships.
Trump Reportedly Weighs Immediate Discharge of All Transgender Troops. Here's What That Would Mean. The proposed plan, as first reported by the Times of London, would entail signing an order within days of Trump taking office...
The Best Amazon Black Friday Week 2024 Deals for Service Members, Veterans and Their Families America’s favorite shopping holiday isn’t just a single day, or even a weekend, anymore. Here’s how U.S. service members...
Overseas Troops to See Fewer Sweets, More Sweet Potatoes on Their Holiday Tables This Year For some unexplained reason, the Defense Logistics Agency is shipping 800% more sweet potatoes overseas than it did last...
For Soldiers at Fort Carson, Food Is Scarce As Americans gather for Thanksgiving feasts, soldiers at Fort Carson, Colorado, are contending with a far less festive...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
