Military Community Blasts Congress Over Sequester While members of the Senate and House continue to kick the budget can down the road, those who have sacrificed and suffered...
Gridlock, Sequester Deepen Military Budget Morass The uniformed chiefs got another shot at describing the readiness crisis that Congress has inflicted on the armed forces.
Who is to Blame for Defense Budget Crisis? President Obama and congressional leaders were foolish to include the mindless sequestration mechanism in the Budget Control...
Shutdown Stings Military Multiple Ways The shutdown is stinging military communities, and the hurt is enhanced by the tough budget choices forced by sequestration.
VA Chief: Shutdown Puts Payments at Risk Eric Shinseki called on House Republicans to pass a continuing budget resolution to avoid harming millions of vets.
Why Blame Republicans for the Shutdown? Without a CR that the Senate would agree to, and that President Obama would sign, the government, as expected, shut down....
Shutdown Ends, But Defense Budgets Still Squeezed With the government shutdown ended, Reserve and National Guard members can resume weekend drills.
Antics of Our Lawmakers No Longer Tolerable Why are we, the voting citizens of this country, still tolerating the antics, egos and arrogant self-interest?
Hale: Military Force-Outs, Civilian 'RIFs' Likely Keeping the military combat ready during budget chaos requires an accelerated force drawdown, DoD's chief financial officer...
DoD Requests Plan to Close Stateside Commissaries The DeCA has been asked for a plan to close stateside base grocery stores, say military resale community sources.
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...
