Deployed Civilians Exemplify Total Force Mindset Two civilian contractors gave two active duty personnel the opportunity to remain home with their families during the...
Communicating With Children During a Deployment Think about how to communicate as a family with your service member. Perhaps you want to send him videos of the children.
Missing Eye Shields Put Deployed Troops at Risk Eye shields remain largely absent from first aid kits even though eye injuries account for 10 to 15 percent of the war's...
Obama Halts Afghanistan Drawdown at 10K US Troops through 2015 Obama altered his plan by keeping the number of troops at 9,800 but sticking to his goal of lowering that number to 1,000 by...
McCain: No Need for US Ground Troops to Retake Raqqa The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said he sees no need to send U.S. ground troops into Syria to recapture...
Navy to Send More Than 1,100 Chief Petty Officers to Sea Duty Navy leaders announced that a new policy will move sailors from overmanned shore-based ratings to leaner operational units.
Navy Replaces Ships in Arabian Gulf as Bombing Continues The U.S. Navy participated in 11 coalition air strikes against the Islamic State as the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier...
3rd ID Soldiers to Deploy to Europe this Year in Response to Russia The Army plans to deploy more soldiers to Eastern Europe this year in a show of force against Russian involvement in the...
Deploying Incomplete Units to Afghanistan Hurts Readiness: General Members of Congress expressed concern that U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan can only be maintained by deploying incomplete...
More US Troops in Syria Under Risk of Attack from Turkey The additional U.S. troops headed to Syria may be under risk of attack from Turkey, according to a senior U.S. military...
VA to Give Veterans One-Year Authorizations to Seek Care from Private Providers in 30 Specialties The move allows veterans to get 12 months of private treatment without having to request a reauthorization.
Air Force Investigating After Security Forces Kill Civilian Who Crashed into Arizona Base Gate An airman from the base's Security Forces Squadron "shot and fatally injured" the civilian after several of the troops used...
Broken Altimeter, Ignored Warnings: Hearings Reveal What Went Wrong in DC Crash that Killed 67 Over three days of sometimes contentious hearings this week, the National Transportation Safety Board interrogated Federal...
Senators Seek Answers on Hawaii Veteran Ordered to Self-Deport U.S. Sens. Mazie Hirono and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem...
Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson Rock On: ‘Our Military Upbringing Helped Us in Many Ways’ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart have never served in any branch of the military. But the...