Pentagon Inspector General to Investigate Defense Secretary's Failure to Notify Key Officials of Hospitalization The DoD inspector general is an independent and objective agency, and its findings will be separate from those of the Office...
Austin's Secret Hospitalization Prompts Congressional Inquiry, Calls for Hearings Chairman Mike Rogers sent letters to Austin, his chief of staff and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks demanding a stack...
Defense Secretary Austin Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer that Led to Further Hospitalization for Infection The information on Austin's ongoing medical issues was released by doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in...
Inside the Pentagon's Failure to Notify the White House, Congress of Defense Secretary's Hospitalization Despite the Pentagon's explanation, it remained unclear exactly how or why Austin effectively hid a health emergency for...
Thousands of Troops May Be Caught in Medical Debt. Sen. Elizabeth Warren Wants the Pentagon to Find Out How Many. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is pressing the Pentagon to improve its policies to safeguard troops from excessive medical...
Military to Curtail Recruiting and Duty Station Moves if Congress Resorts to a Yearlong Stopgap Budget, Joint Chiefs Chairman Warns Since the start of the fiscal year at the beginning of October, the Defense Department, along with the rest of the federal...
2,000 US Troops Ordered to Prepare for Deployment in Growing Response to Israel War with Hamas Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered around 2,000 troops to be on heightened alert to potentially deploy in response to...
Pentagon Can Provide Military Aid to Both Ukraine and Israel at the Same Time, Defense Secretary Says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appeared with newly confirmed Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Charles "C.Q." Brown to announce the...
Pentagon Says It Will Not Restrict Gun Access to Prevent Suicide Despite Recommendations The Pentagon has decided to put its suicide prevention efforts into gun locks.
Defense Secretary Releases Plan to Keep Top Jobs Filled Amid Senate Blockade of Promotions In a memo dated Aug. 2, Austin recommended several ways to "mitigate the harms caused by the hold" that Sen. Tommy Tuberville...
Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting...
Commander of Air Force Weather Wing Fired After Legal Troubles Earlier This Year Col. Joseph Coughlin, commander of the 557th Weather Wing at Offutt, was removed from his position Tuesday "due to a loss of...
Top US General Argues Against Giving Up Command of NATO at Senate Hearing Giving up American military leadership of the NATO alliance would be "problematic," Gen. Christopher Cavoli told senators...
Capitol Hill Wants $15 Billion for Weapons Pentagon Didn’t Seek: Report The spending directions from Congress are included in tables that Republican Defense appropriators sent the department last...
'Psychological Warfare': Veterans Fired from Federal Government Speak Out at Informal Hearing Air Force veteran Shernice Mundell was testifying at a "shadow hearing" organized by Senate Veteran Affairs Committee ranking...
