Lawmakers Noncommittal on Military Retirement and Health Care Changes President Obama and members of Congress on Thursday were quick to praise the Military Compensation and Retirement Commission...
Sequestration Casts Shadow on Shrinking, Aging Air Force Fleet Today's Air Force is not only smaller, but its diminutive fleet is older than it has ever been, the service's chief of staff...
Air Force Risks Becoming Too Small to Succeed Under Sequestration During testimony, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III stressed the negative impact sequestration will have on...
Pentagon Pushes To Rein in Rising Pay and Benefits Costs The Pentagon stuck to its long-standing position Friday that rising military personnel costs have to be curbed to make the...
Pentagon 2016 Budget Includes Pay Raise, More BAH Cuts, Tricare Merger The DoD's proposed budget calls for a modest pay raise but more cuts to housing allowances, while consolidating Tricare...
Navy's $160B Proposed Budget Increases Sea Pay and Submarines The Navy received the largest boost of any of the services in the Pentagon's 2016 budget proposal announced Monday.
VA Seeks to Reallocate Choice Act Funds in $169B Budget Proposal The Veterans Affairs Department would be funded to nearly $169 billion next year under the budget proposed by the White House...
Marine Corps Proposes $25B Budget Keeping End Strength at 184K The Marine Corps would receive $25 billion under the Pentagon's fiscal 2016 proposed budget announced Monday that would...
Air Force Maintains Plans to Retire A-10 in '16 Budget Proposal Air Force leaders have not backed off their push to retire the A-10 in the Pentagon's fiscal 2016 budget request.
Panel Clashes with Pentagon on Cuts to Pay and Housing Allowances Members of the panel on military compensation and retirement reform said raises and housing allowances are"operating...
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...
