Navy Aims for Tuition Assistance Through September The Navy's personnel chief told sailors Tuesday that he's pushing hard to break with the other services and retain tuition...
Pentagon Could Shrink Furlough With Senate Action The Pentagon will review furlough plans if Congress includes an appropriations bill for the DoD in its continuing resolution.
Pentagon Delays Civilian Furloughs By Two Weeks The DoD delayed the furloughs following the passage of the continuing resolution, which includes Pentagon appropriations.
Services Gear Up To Restore Tuition Assistance The services held off on lifting suspension of tuition assistance programs to review legislation that calls for their...
DoD Restoring Tuition Assistance for All Services Tuition assistance programs will be restored quickly with renewed funding from Congress, DoD officials said Wednesday.
Furlough Days Cut: Exceptions in Works More than 700,000 Defense Department civilian personnel will now be subject to 14 furlough days from June through September...
Hagel Docks His Own Pay to Match 14-Day Furlough Defense Secretary Hagel will dock his own pay to show solidarity with civilian personnel facing 14 unpaid days of furlough.
Service Secretaries Donate Pay to Show Solidarity The service secretaries made a donation of 5 percent of their pay to show support for the civilians that work for them.
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...
