'That Pisses Me Off': Congressman to Lead Panel on Struggles for Troops Focusing on Pay, Food Insecurity Boosting pay for junior enlisted service members and improving military housing conditions will be among the priorities of...
VA Caregiver Program Needs Better Outreach and Data to Serve Disabled Vets, Panel Says A Veterans' Family, Caregiver and Survivor Advisory panel subcommittee found that VA fails to communicate effectively with...
Tricare Beneficiaries Are Suffering. The Biden Administration Refuses to Hear Them Out. "Nearly a quarter of a million men and women of the United States armed forces, military retirees and their families are at...
Soldiers Need to Check If Their Families Have Health Care After IT Snafu Kicked 25,000 Beneficiaries Off Tricare Twenty-five thousand Tricare beneficiaries were removed from coverage on Jan. 16 due to an error related to the service's new...
Army Still Working on Mandated Parental Leave Policy, Doesn't Want to Have to 'Redo It and Create Confusion' The Army has yet to release a new parental leave policy, meaning new parents are in limbo as the service is one of the last...
Millions of Tricare Users Must Approve Mail-Order Prescription Refills Starting Now Express Scripts has started sending out notices asking Tricare patients to confirm their mail-order prescription refills.
Sailors Can Finally Use New Family Leave Policy After Weeks of Delays, While Soldiers Still Wait The Navy finally released its formal policy memo outlining new parental leave benefits built into a federal law that went...
Military Families Stressed by Delay in Parental Leave Rules from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps The services need to issue specific guidance to their formations before the rules can be used by the rank and file.
'Widow's Tax' on Survivors Will Be Completely Gone as of Feb. 1 Benefit Checks The surviving spouses of military retirees who receive income from two separate benefit programs will no longer have their...
More Than One-Third of Tricare Patients Have Limited or No Access to a Psychiatrist, Study Finds Those stationed or retired in military areas face the largest shortages, according to a new study.
Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday -- the third since it...
Tweaks to Army's Physical Fitness Test Are Relatively Modest The Army has approved a series of revisions to its physical fitness test, recalibrating performance benchmarks in a modest...
White House Says Trump’s Proposal to Rename Veterans Day Has Been Scrapped The White House has backed off President Donald Trump’s stunning social media proposal to change the name of Veterans Day to...
Weather and Night Vision Goggles Were Likely Factors in Marine Corps Helicopter Crash, Report Finds The CH-53 Super Stallion crashed Feb. 6, 2024, during a late night flight when it hit a mountain near Pine Valley, California...
Hegseth Works Hard to Portray Himself as a Man of the Troops. They Might Not Be Buying It. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and National Guardsman, has attempted to reframe the role of the...
