How to Avoid the Military 'COLA Trap' by Getting Smart About Your Retirement Date To understand how pay inversions happen, you'll need to get your head around how your retirement will be calculated.
Navy Unveils System Meant to Counter Pay Delays, Other Paperwork Holdups The Navy has rolled out a dashboard that will give leaders at every command the ability to see an overview of their sailors'...
Senators Push DoD to Do 'Proactive' Outreach to Soldiers Booted from Tricare in IT Glitch The leaders of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are calling on the DoD to conduct a review of Tricare after recent...
Tricare Will Pay for More Dialysis Services Following COVID-Linked Rise in Kidney Disease Express Scripts has started sending out notices asking Tricare patients to confirm their mail-order prescription refills.
Army Unveils New Parental Leave Policy After Long Debate on Denials The policy grants 12 weeks of leave for new mothers and fathers, including adoptive and foster parents on active duty or full...
Marines Roll Out Expanded Parental Leave Policy The Corps' version of the policy does not substantially differ from the other military branches as it allows Marines to take...
'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...
New Defense Health Director Pledges to Focus on Patients as 'Human Beings' Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland's experiences while serving as deputy Army surgeon general and as a family physician will influence...
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 Offers $15,000 Reward for Info on Missing Guns and Other Gear at Fort Moore Army investigators are still searching for 31 M17 pistols that disappeared from Fort Moore, Georgia, earlier this year, but...
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...
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...
Police Report Sheds New Light on Pentagon Nominee Hegseth's Sexual Encounter that Led to Assault Allegation Pete Hegseth, who is tapped to lead the military and the nation's largest federal bureaucracy, has vehemently denied the...
Steel Company Tied to Deadly Air Force Osprey Crash Faced Defective Parts Lawsuit in 2001 Military officials have refused to say whether they're still working with a company responsible for making the gear that...