Pentagon Policy Paying Travel Costs for Abortions, Other Health Care Was Used Only 12 Times from June to December Paying for transportation, lodging and meals for those 12 round trips from a service member's home station to the location of...
Tricare Users Can Now Refill Prescriptions Through MHS Genesis Electronic Health Record System The new refill option applies only if a military pharmacy originally filled the prescription. Prescriptions originally filled...
Tricare to Stop Covering Some Vitamin Supplements The supplements that are no longer covered beginning Jan. 1, 2019, are still available over the counter.
Military Medical Examiner Kept Organs for Years and Failed to Properly Notify Families, Watchdog Finds The Pentagon's internal watchdog has found that the Armed Forces Medical Examiner mismanaged the collection and handling of...
CHAMPVA Recipients Can Now Get Prescriptions Online from the VA The online pharmacy program makes getting prescriptions easy and fast.
Proposal for 'GI Bill for Child Care' Aims to Boost Unemployed Military Spouses Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee's military quality-of-life panel, is...
Leaving Army Colonel Husband after Alleged Abuse Could End Wife's Access to Medical Care Ellizabeth will continue to require medical treatment -- treatment that will likely cease sometime next year.
Troops at 5 Bases to Be Part of 'Test Moves' Under New Private Management of Household Goods Shipments The new management will start with a series of "test moves" at a handful of U.S. installations in the next couple of weeks.
More Navy Child-Care Centers Are Coming to Drive Down Wait Times, But They're Struggling to Find Staff Amid a growing push by Navy leaders to improve the lives and conditions for sailors, the sea service's installation command...
Life Insurance After the Military: How to Protect Your Family Death is tough on the survivors, and that's especially true if they are squeezed both emotionally and financially. VA- and...
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...
