Pentagon Approving New Rules for Mental Health Access More Than a Year After Passage of Law Requiring Changes The Pentagon is moving forward with a series of changes to mental health care access required by a 2021 law that was passed...
There Are Too Many Generals and Admirals, a Senator Stalling Military Promotions Argues While a single senator cannot prevent confirmations, a hold significantly delays confirmations because the Senate needs to...
Transgender Troops Spark Dueling Bills and Potential Clash on Capitol Hill A new bill, sponsored by Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., would ensure anyone who meets occupational standards can serve in the...
Key Senator Presses DoD on Protecting Service Members from Medical Debt Sen. Elizabeth Warren pressed for answers on whether the DoD has implemented recommendations from a report produced by the...
You Can Record With StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative in 2023 in These States In 2020, former Army cavalry scout and sniper Garett Reppenhagen spoke with StoryCorps -- a nonprofit that chronicles the...
Amid the Rising Tide of Hate, What Happened to Countering Extremism in the US Military? "Those in positions to cause change inside the military and out must embrace the long road ahead to fully address extremism...
Renewed Military ID Cards Can Be Sent by Mail in New Pilot Program Active-duty troops can now log in to renew their family members' military ID cards in a pilot program allowing the IDs to be...
Try This if You Have a Fear of Heights and Want to Serve Once you have a better understanding of the root of your fear, you can start to face it and even manage to look down and...
Military Services Will Amend COVID Vaccine Refuser Records So They Aren't Passed Over for Promotions The Pentagon directed all the services to "formally rescind any policies, directives, and guidance implementing those...
Gun Buying Restrictions on Base Are Needed to Reduce Suicides, Pentagon Panel Says On-base stores in the U.S. sold 113,200 firearms in 2021, according to figures provided to Military.com by the exchange...
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-40-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...
![Aircrew Aviation Electrician's Mate Striker Brandon Caserta, 21, died by suicide on June 25, 2018. An investigation found that leadership at Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28 in Norfolk, Virginia, "contributed" to his decision to take his own life. (Photo courtesy of the Caserta family](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2019-06/brandon-caserta-2400.jpg?itok=G3KKbaqh "Aircrew Aviation Electrician's Mate Striker Brandon Caserta, 21 died by suicide on June 25, 2018. An investigation found that leadership at Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28 in Norfolk, Virginia, "contributed" to his decision to take his own life. (Photo courtesy of the Caserta family)")
