Tax-Free Pay, 2-Year Leave of Absence for Parents Among Ideas Being Floated by House's Military Quality-of-Life Panel The quality-of-life panel was formed this congressional session to provide recommendations that could be included in next...
New Moms in the Navy No Longer Have to Take Fitness Tests in the First Year After Giving Birth The Navy announced that the requirement was canceled and said that instead, "sailors should participate in a progressive and...
Overseas Cost-of-Living Cuts Are About to Take a Bite Out of Paychecks. Some Bases Are Already Warning Troops. Cuts to service members' overseas cost-of-living allowances are coming, and some areas are starting to warn troops about the...
Whiteman Air Force Base Is Scrambling to Find Out Why High Radon Levels at a Day Care Center Were Ignored An audit last month of radon sampling at the base revealed the 2022 findings "were not acted upon," a memo detailed.
The 5 Top Concerns of Army Families - and What the Service Plans to Do About Them Army leaders said they are taking steps to address family issues that may cause soldiers to leave the service.
Does This Truck Make My Shipment Look Big? How to Avoid Weight Fraud During a Military Move "Some moving companies that have been entrusted to move household goods for military members and their families have learned...
How Timely Orders Can Make or Break a Military Experience When orders do not arrive with enough lead time to schedule a move with a transportation office, many families are forced to...
DoD Seeking Caregivers, Military Family Members for Study on Consequences of Brain Injuries in Troops The Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence is conducting a 15-year study on the effects of traumatic brain injury on...
8 Tasks to Knock Out Before Settling Into Your New Home Before you can get to the fun parts of homeownership such as unpacking and decorating, a few housekeeping items need tending...
Foster Families Find a Home in Military Community Military members and their spouses can indeed foster disadvantaged children -- even while on active duty, living on base and...
Biggest Military Pay Raise in 2 Decades Finalized in Newly Released Defense Bill Service members will get a 5.2% pay raise come January under the compromise annual defense bill unveiled Wednesday night.
Israel’s Assassinations Road to Perdition The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Israel's intelligence services to launch an assassination...
Congress Tells Army to Set Higher Fitness Standards for Combat Arms Soldiers Congress is set to direct the Army to boost fitness standards for most combat-arms jobs through a compromise defense policy...
A Gigantic New ICBM Will Take US Nuclear Missiles Out of the Cold War-Era But Add 21st-Century Risks The $96 billion Sentinel overhaul involves 450 silos across five states, their control centers, three nuclear missile bases...
Army Veteran Battling Terminal Cancer Gets His Wish to Shoot a Tank One Last Time In early 2022, Jay Tenison was diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer after reporting pain to his doctors. After months of...
