As 3-Star Head of Defense Health Agency Exits, Changes to Empower Military Patients Continue Vice Adm. Raquel Bono oversaw the largest changes to the military health system since Tricare was introduced in 1996.
The Pentagon’s Answer to Malaria, Lyme Disease Cases: ‘Bugapalooza’ The Defense Health Agency wants troops, family members and the public to know that vector-borne diseases are preventable.
Questions Remain as DoD Gets Ready to Cut 18,000 Medical Personnel Pentagon officials are keeping quiet on details surrounding a plan to cut 18,000 medical billets across the military.
Lawmakers Align on 3.1% Pay Raise, Efforts to Slow Cuts to Military Medical Billets The draft House defense authorization bill also contains health and child care provisions.
Lawmakers Seek to Slow DoD's Efforts to Slash Medical Billets, Outsource Moves The House Appropriations Committee passed the fiscal 2020 Defense Appropriations bill 30 to 22.
Navy Hospital Ship Comfort to Deploy to Aid Venezuelan Refugees The Navy hospital ship Comfort will deploy next month to the Caribbean and Central and South America to provide assistance.
Services Turn Focus to Warfighters as DHA Takes Over Military Hospitals In a budget hearing on Tuesday, the services' surgeons general addressed realignment of the medical forces.
Pentagon Budget Includes Plan to Reduce Military Medical Force "Roughly 15,000" military medical billets are slated to become civilian jobs.
More Than 17,000 Uniformed Medical Jobs Eyed for Elimination The reduction will allow those billets to be repurposed as war fighters or combat-support skills to increase lethality.
US Supreme Court Asks for Government Response in Feres Case Attorney says the justices' unique request signals interest in a military medical malpractice case.
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Hegseth Wants 'Male Standard' for Combat Roles. Many Female Veterans Say That's Already the Case Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his...
The Forgotten Military Vehicles of ‘M*A*S*H’ Between all the martini-fueled hijinx and medical drama, “M*A*S*H” featured some pretty special military vehicles.
Hegseth's Decision on Wounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage in Native American Communities Native American communities that had long wanted the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded...
Airman Confronts and Shoots Armed Neighbor on Deadly Rampage, Iowa Officials Say Harrison Friar, a senior airman, was with his wife and children at their home in Glenwood on the evening of Aug. 6 when they...
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