Navy, Marine Corps Plan to Spend More than $250M on Barracks Restoration in 2025 The move comes as military leaders struggle to fund all their priorities after last year's move by Congress to cap the...
The Army Wants Congress to Supercharge its Barracks Budget to Fix Soldiers' Poor Living Conditions The Army is seeking a total of $2.35 billion for barracks in 2025, a major boost from this fiscal year's $1.5 billion budget...
Veterans' Gun Rights Amendment Included in Compromise Must-Pass VA Spending Bill The provision -- a win for Republicans on Capitol Hill -- was included in a bipartisan compromise deal between the House and...
GOP Speaker Johnson Says House Won't Be 'Rushed' to Approve Aid for Ukraine as $95B Package Stalls Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, who rejected a border security compromise that was eventually stripped from the final...
As US Troops Take Fire in Middle East, Lawmakers Consider Billions in New Funding A long-awaited bipartisan Senate agreement to provide funding for the conflicts in Israel and Ukraine in exchange for U.S...
Congress Votes to Avert a Shutdown and Keep the Government Funded Through Early March The House approved the measure by a vote of 314-108, with opposition coming mostly from the more conservative members of the...
The US Failed to Track More Than $1 Billion in Military Gear Given Ukraine, Pentagon Watchdog Says The findings mean that 59% of $1.7 billion in defense gear that the U.S. has provided Ukraine and was directed to guard...
Top White House Budget Official Warns of 'Dire' Situation on Ukraine Aid Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, stressed that there is no avenue to help Ukraine aside...
Barracks Repairs, Other Military Quality-of-Life Improvements Slam Into Congress' Upcoming Budget Fight Efforts to replace dilapidated housing and improve service members' quality of life could be kneecapped before they can even...
Biden Signs Law Backing Military Pay Increase for 2024. Here's How Much More You’ll Get. Current troops get a big bump in basic pay for the second year in a row in 2024. Veterans receive an above-average increase...
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Fired After 6 Months: Army Sacks Commander of Germany Unit Meant to Bolster NATO Against Russia Lt. Col. Eric Ackles, commander of 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was relieved of command, the service...
Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits Rolled out with great fanfare in November 2022, toxic exposure screenings for all VA patients were mandated by the PACT Act...
Feds Settle Case for $2 Million After Skydiving Plane Took Out Marine Corps Osprey on Runway Nearly four years after a civilian skydiving aircraft collided with a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey sitting on a San Diego runway...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...