New Arctic Pay for Troops Was Passed by Congress a Year Ago. But the Pentagon Waved It Off. More than a year after it was passed in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, the Pentagon has not enacted a new...
Barracks Repairs, Other Military Quality-of-Life Improvements Slam Into Congress' Upcoming Budget Fight Efforts to replace dilapidated housing and improve service members' quality of life could be kneecapped before they can even...
Pentagon Effort on Extremism Snarled by Confusion, Guard Divisions, Gaps in Security Clearance Screening Military leaders were confused about how to define and root out extremist behavior, even as they acknowledged a stream of...
Inside the Pentagon's Painfully Slow Effort to Clean Up Decades of PFAS Contamination Oscoda, Michigan, has the distinction as the first community where “forever chemicals” were found seeping from a military...
Barracks Habitability Standards Ordered by Recently Signed Defense Bill Requiring minimum standards for habitability is one of several ways this year's National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA...
Congress, DoD Should Shore Up Financially Troubled Armed Forces Retirement Home, Watchdog Says Populations of the federal homes in Washington, D.C., and Gulfport, Mississippi, have declined as expenses have risen...
The US Wanted Out of the Middle East. The Middle East Had Other Ideas. Two decades of war in the Middle East, a war that much of the American public is eager to move on from, have made military...
The Pentagon Is Stepping Up On-Base Food Options to Help Troops Battle Food Insecurity For years, the issue of troops struggling to put food on the table has been a topic of study and conversation among military...
Military Focusing on JROTC Programs as Chances to Paint Picture of Service to Gen Z Dwindle JROTC, a program that has existed since World War I, offers an increasingly rare means of connecting students who will soon...
US Military to Screen All New Recruits for Heart Conditions Under Must-Pass Annual Defense Bill The requirement, included in the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, follows a series of deaths among military...
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...