Your Military Pay Raise for 2025, Plus Veterans Pension and BAH Updates Under the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, troops in the ranks of E-1 through E-4 will see a 14.5% raise next...
Defense Bill Mandates Changes to Weapons, Other Steps to Protect Troops' Brain Health Members of Congress in both parties have been increasingly concerned about traumatic brain injuries, or TBI, among service...
14.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise, Restriction on Care for Transgender Military Kids Headed to Biden's Desk The 4.5% raise will be added to all service members' paychecks at the beginning of January, while the remaining 10% extra for...
Do Air Shows Really Help Military Readiness and Recruiting? Congress Plans to Find Out. Lawmakers want the secretary of defense to brief Congress on how sending military aircraft to air shows affects recruiting...
No More Copays: Defense Bill Set to Sign Off on Free Birth Control for Military Families Free birth control will be available to all Tricare users after more than a decade of efforts to eliminate copays for...
Defense Bill with Massive Junior Enlisted Raise, Restriction on Health Care for Trans Military Kids Passes House Despite anger from Democratic lawmakers at language that would restrict health care for transgender children of service...
Proposed Expansion of IVF Coverage for Troops Scuttled from Compromise Defense Bill An expansion of coverage for fertility treatments for service members was left out of a compromise defense bill despite...
Congress Shaves Beard Pilot Program for Air Force, Space Force from Must-Pass Defense Legislation Congress has decided to pass on ordering the Department of the Air Force to establish a pilot program examining whether...
Compromise Defense Bill Would Give Junior Troops 14.5% Pay Raise in 2025 Junior enlisted service members will get a 14.5% pay raise next year under a compromise defense bill expected to pass...
Air National Guard Units Set to Transfer to Space Force Under Defense Bill Despite States' Opposition Nearly 600 Air National Guardsmen who focus on space missions would be transferred to the Space Force against the wishes of...
Pentagon Diverts $1 Billion from Army Barracks to Fund Border Mission The Pentagon is shifting $1 billion meant for maintaining and renovating Army barracks to instead fund its surge of troops to...
Coast Guard Vet Turned Porn Actress Pleads Guilty to Killing Man in Cuyahoga Valley National Park A Coast Guard veteran who later became an actress in adult films admitted to killing a man in the Cuyahoga Valley National...
Coast Guard Fires Commander of Its Largest Operational Base Garrison commander Capt. David Melton was responsible for logistics, personnel support, facilities and naval engineering, and...
Services Ordered to Cut PCS Moves by 50% over Next 5 Years The services are tasked with cuts that amount to an initial 10% of the $5 billion PCS budget in 2027 and that increase...
Hegseth Orders Review of Defense Department's Support for Homeschooling A memo released Tuesday directs the Defense Department to examine its educational support and resources for families who...
