Tricare Users Can Now Refill Prescriptions Through MHS Genesis Electronic Health Record System The new refill option applies only if a military pharmacy originally filled the prescription. Prescriptions originally filled...
Money for 5.2% Troop Pay Raise, Enlisted Hardship Bonuses Included in Last-Minute Government Funding Bill Lawmakers have unveiled an agreement to provide the Pentagon with $825 billion for this fiscal year that eschews...
Tricare to Stop Covering Some Vitamin Supplements The supplements that are no longer covered beginning Jan. 1, 2019, are still available over the counter.
MHS Genesis Patient Portal MHS Genesis is the Defense Department's new electronic health records system, designed to provide a single health record for...
Coast Guard Takes Steps to Improve Service Members' Access to Mental Health Screenings Following a law passed in 2021 that required the services to expedite self-referrals for mental health assessments, the Coast...
A Better Way to Give Pay Raises to Junior Enlisted? Key Senator Says It's Under Consideration This Year. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed said his panel is considering whether there is a "better model" to boost...
Proposal for 'GI Bill for Child Care' Aims to Boost Unemployed Military Spouses Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee's military quality-of-life panel, is...
Leaving Army Colonel Husband after Alleged Abuse Could End Wife's Access to Medical Care Ellizabeth will continue to require medical treatment -- treatment that will likely cease sometime next year.
Commissaries Limit Toilet Paper, Other Sales as Shoppers Hoard Supplies Limitations will change from store to store, but directors are authorized to place restrictions on certain products.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
