Lithium Batteries in PCS Shipments: What's In and What's Out Here's what's allowed and what's expected when shipping lithium batteries with your household goods on a military PCS move.
Moving Scams Are on the Rise, and Florida Is Ground Zero Florida, the fastest-growing state in America, is also increasingly home to scammers operating fraudulent moving companies...
Lithium Batteries Will Soon Be Banned in Some Military Moves U.S. Transportation Command is set to issue new rules explicitly limiting lithium batteries in household goods moves.
Navy Delays Requirement for Some Sailors to Pay for Moves Using Government Charge Cards The mandate will still go into effect for senior officers and enlisted, while troops below those ranks will still be able to...
Privatized PCS Moves May Finally Be Coming After Court Decision For more than two years, the shift to private management has been snared in legal fights.
Dislocation Allowance Increases by $500 for Many Junior Enlisted As part of the Defense Department's new policy, many will see a nearly 50% increase in the permanent change of station (PCS)...
Military Per Diem Rates Will Go Up in 2023 The maximum travel reimbursement rate will go up slightly in the upcoming year.
New PCS Survey Would Help Weed Out Bad Movers. But People Aren't Filling It Out Military families were given a new streamlined satisfaction survey during permanent-change-of-station, or PCS, moves this...
14 Ways to Organize Your Duty Station Bucket List Having a limited amount of time at each location can light a fire under you to get out and experience your new home city...
How to Avoid Rental Scams This PCS Season The scammers are getting smarter and preying on military families.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
