VA Wants Vets to Use Their Benefits When Choosing a Final Resting Place Officials say that benefits offered by the National Cemetery Administration are the most underutilized of veterans' perks.
After a Marine's Death, This Veteran Nonprofit Made Sure His Kids Could Stay in School Folds of Honor provides scholarships to the families of fallen or disabled service members.
Army Unveils New Parental Leave Policy After Long Debate on Denials The policy grants 12 weeks of leave for new mothers and fathers, including adoptive and foster parents on active duty or full...
Marines Roll Out Expanded Parental Leave Policy The Corps' version of the policy does not substantially differ from the other military branches as it allows Marines to take...
'That Pisses Me Off': Congressman to Lead Panel on Struggles for Troops Focusing on Pay, Food Insecurity Boosting pay for junior enlisted service members and improving military housing conditions will be among the priorities of...
VA Caregiver Program Needs Better Outreach and Data to Serve Disabled Vets, Panel Says A Veterans' Family, Caregiver and Survivor Advisory panel subcommittee found that VA fails to communicate effectively with...
Tricare Beneficiaries Are Suffering. The Biden Administration Refuses to Hear Them Out. "Nearly a quarter of a million men and women of the United States armed forces, military retirees and their families are at...
Soldiers Need to Check If Their Families Have Health Care After IT Snafu Kicked 25,000 Beneficiaries Off Tricare Twenty-five thousand Tricare beneficiaries were removed from coverage on Jan. 16 due to an error related to the service's new...
Army Still Working on Mandated Parental Leave Policy, Doesn't Want to Have to 'Redo It and Create Confusion' The Army has yet to release a new parental leave policy, meaning new parents are in limbo as the service is one of the last...
Millions of Tricare Users Must Approve Mail-Order Prescription Refills Starting Now Express Scripts has started sending out notices asking Tricare patients to confirm their mail-order prescription refills.
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...
