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Your Year-End Financial Action Plan, Part I: Setting the Stage A year-end financial review, when done right, acts as a recalibration for the goals that matter most to you and your family.
Should You Borrow from Your TSP Account? Financial experts don’t recommend taking out loans against retirement accounts such as the military’s Thrift Savings Plan...
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Army Secretary Fires 4-Star General Who Meddled in Promotion of Unfit Subordinate Army Secretary Christine Wormuth -- in a dramatic and rare move -- on Tuesday fired one of the service's top generals...
Army Cuts Popular Education Benefit in Half, Bars Officers as Costs Soar The Army is dramatically scaling back one of its most generous education benefits, the Credentialing Assistance program known...
Navy Cuts Length of Boot Camp Amid Rise in Recruiting Totals The Navy says that, starting next month, it will shorten the length of its Basic Military Training program -- commonly known...
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Congress Shaves Beard Pilot Program for Air Force, Space Force from Must-Pass Defense Legislation Congress has decided to pass on ordering the Department of the Air Force to establish a pilot program examining whether...
Military Leaders Are Rattled by a List of 'Woke' Officers That a Group Urges Hegseth to Fire The list compiled by the American Accountability Foundation includes 20 general officers or senior admirals and a...
Pentagon Weighs in on Multiple Drone Sightings in Skies over New Jersey The Pentagon is weighing in on a number of drone sightings in the skies over New Jersey. (Dec. 12)...
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Israeli Military Releases Videos It Claims to Show Strikes on Syria, Including Latakia The Israeli military on Tuesday released several videos it claimed to show strikes on Syria, including the port of...
Unsupervised: Military Child Care Centers Slow to Report Abuse with Little Oversight A Military.com investigation into military day care centers revealed that service branch rules generally prioritize...
Unsupervised: Military Child Care Centers Slow to Report Abuse with Little Oversight A Military.com investigation into military day care centers revealed that service branch rules generally prioritize...
They Stood Sentry over America's Nuclear Missile Arsenal. Many Worry It Gave Them Cancer. For years, it was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era missile alert facilities and launch control centers...
They Stood Sentry over America's Nuclear Missile Arsenal. Many Worry It Gave Them Cancer. For years, it was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era missile alert facilities and launch control centers...
The Best Showdown of the Army-Navy Game Actually Takes Place Away from the Gridiron The respective military service academy's debate teams have met every year at the Army-Navy Game since 2012, performing an...
Do Air Shows Really Help Military Readiness and Recruiting? Congress Plans to Find Out. Lawmakers want the secretary of defense to brief Congress on how sending military aircraft to air shows affects recruiting...
The Best Showdown of the Army-Navy Game Actually Takes Place Away from the Gridiron The respective military service academy's debate teams have met every year at the Army-Navy Game since 2012, performing an...
Do Air Shows Really Help Military Readiness and Recruiting? Congress Plans to Find Out. Lawmakers want the secretary of defense to brief Congress on how sending military aircraft to air shows affects recruiting...
Do Air Shows Really Help Military Readiness and Recruiting? Congress Plans to Find Out. Lawmakers want the secretary of defense to brief Congress on how sending military aircraft to air shows affects recruiting...
Transgender Troops, Confronting Shifting Policies of Acceptance, Just Want to Serve Transgender troops' right to serve -- perhaps even to fight and die for a nation they volunteered to defend -- has been...
Transgender Troops, Confronting Shifting Policies of Acceptance, Just Want to Serve Transgender troops' right to serve -- perhaps even to fight and die for a nation they volunteered to defend -- has been...
Chinese Citizen Arrested After Allegedly Flying Drone, Taking Photos of Space Force Base Federal investigators arrested a 39-year-old man this week after accusing him of flying a drone and taking pictures of...
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Navy, Marines Team Up with University of Hawaii on Resource Management The University of Hawaii and the Department of the Navy have signed an unprecedented 10-year agreement aimed at safeguarding...
US Senator Says Mysterious Drones Spotted in New Jersey Region Should Be 'Shot Down, if Necessary' “We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysis and take them out of the skies, especially if they’re flying over...
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