'At the Limits of What I Can Do:' Marine Corps Commandant Makes Plea for Funding Gen. David Berger told Congress that the service has trimmed assets and people and needs full funding to ensure readiness.
Small Arms Training, Alaskan Missile Field: DoD Details Projects Funded by Border Wall Cancellation The unobligated money the DoD was able to recover is a fraction of what had been steered toward the border wall.
Budget Request for Arlington Cemetery Nearly Triples Amid Plans for Major Expansion The Biden administration's fiscal 2022 budget proposal adds $141 million for a project that would add 80,000 burial and...
DoD Health Care Beneficiaries Spared from Fee Increases in New Budget Request The Biden administration has requested a 5.3% increase in the military health system budget to tackle Tricare increases...
Coast Guard Gets a Pay Raise in Biden's First Budget Request The service would actually see a decrease in discretionary funding from fiscal 2021 spending.
VA Gets Another Massive Funding Increase in Biden's First Budget The budget calls for an 8.2% increase in discretionary spending and a nearly 11% rise in mandatory funding, including medical...
Air Force's 'Grey Wolf' Huey Replacement Helicopter Goes Unfunded in DoD Budget Request The service will delay asking lawmakers for funding for the helicopter.
Pentagon Eyes New Bombs for War With China, Not ISIS Despite the service shifting more resources toward the ARRW program last year, the missile failed its first flight test a few...
Climate Change, Extremism Among Military Threats Targeted in DoD Budget Request The Biden administration is addressing extremism in the ranks, as well as climate change, in its first proposed Defense...
Marine Corps Invests in Drone Truck-Based Ship-Killer Missile as it Ditches Some MRAPs The White House budget request for fiscal 2022 totals $47.86 billion for the Marine Corps, up from $45.1 billion last year.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...