Medal of Honor Recipients Could Get $100,000 Annual Pensions Under Bill Proposed in Congress Under the Monetary Enhancement for Distinguished Active Legends, or MEDAL, Act, the monthly pension for Medal of Honor...
National Guard Moves Closer to Filling Leadership Vacuum with Key Senate Hearing Lt. Gen. Steven Nordhaus, right now a top Air Force officer with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, breezed...
Congress Bestows Highest Honor on Troops Killed in Abbey Gate Bombing, with Politics in Background Surviving family members of the Abbey Gate suicide bombing victims accepted the Congressional Gold Medal as their loved ones'...
Tuberville Holds Up Promotion of Austin's Top Aide over Hospitalization Secrecy Tuberville is attributing the move to concerns over what role Lt. Gen. Ronald Clark may have played in the initial secrecy...
US Military Warnings of Dire Situation in Afghanistan During Withdrawal Ignored, House GOP Report Finds Warnings from U.S. military officers about the Taliban's swift advances as American troops withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021...
$12 Billion More for VA Medical Budget Urgently Needed, Department Says If Congress does not include extra funding for Department of Veterans Affairs medical services in an upcoming stopgap...
Sexual Assault, Harassment and Retaliation Against Victims 'Pervasive' in Coast Guard, Senate Investigation Finds A new investigation by a Senate subcommittee found that Coast Guard leaders often fail to handle reports of sexual assault...
Republican Project 2025 Takes Dead Aim at Veterans' Health and Disability Benefits When I came to Congress two years ago and joined the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, I was cautiously optimistic that...
Years After Fall of Kabul, US Congress Has Still Not Acted to Secure Future of More Than 70,000 Afghan Evacuees in US The act’s failure comes despite bipartisan and wide-ranging popular support to assist Afghans – including among members of...
On 12th Anniversary of Marine Vet Austin Tice's Disappearance, Lawmakers Push to Bring Him Home Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., along with 34 other senators in both parties, sent President Joe...
Tennessee Man Shot Dead After Flipping Middle Finger at War Memorial Albert Sturgill Jr., 63, was confronted by a group while gesturing at the flag and monuments at Cumberland County Veterans...
Chicago Braces for Potential National Guard Deployment Amid Trump Threats Illinois politicians are sounding an alarm and bracing for possible National Guard deployments to Chicago amid President...
9/11 Air Defense Stories You Might Not Know As hijacked planes turned into weapons on September 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York...
Is Trump's Troop Buildup in US Cities a Declaration of War — or Something Else? As President Donald Trump goads Democratic-led cities, Americans are grappling with a fundamental question of American...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...
