Sailors Can Finally Use New Family Leave Policy After Weeks of Delays, While Soldiers Still Wait The Navy finally released its formal policy memo outlining new parental leave benefits built into a federal law that went...
Military Families Stressed by Delay in Parental Leave Rules from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps The services need to issue specific guidance to their formations before the rules can be used by the rank and file.
'Widow's Tax' on Survivors Will Be Completely Gone as of Feb. 1 Benefit Checks The surviving spouses of military retirees who receive income from two separate benefit programs will no longer have their...
More Than One-Third of Tricare Patients Have Limited or No Access to a Psychiatrist, Study Finds Those stationed or retired in military areas face the largest shortages, according to a new study.
Pentagon Unveils New Parental Leave Policy After Delay Caused Uncertainty for Troops Both parents are now offered up to 12 weeks of leave after welcoming a new child, as well as any doctor-approved convalescent...
New Clinic for Military Families Exposed to Red Hill Fuel a 'Dog and Pony Show,' Patients Say The Defense Health Agency established a facility this week for Pearl Harbor-area residents who consumed tainted water, but...
'Chaos' for Service Members and Spouses After Pentagon Misses Deadline for Parental Leave Policy Military service members and their spouses are growing angry after the Department of Defense missed its Jan. 1 deadline to...
12-Week Military Parental Leave Benefit Will Be in Place by January The leave will be non-chargeable, meaning it doesn't count against other leave allowances.
Retirees to Get a Second Chance to Enroll In or Opt Out of the Survivor Benefit Plan Military retirees who opted out of the Survivor Benefit Plan will get a rare second chance to enroll.
Defense Department Raises On-Base Child Care Fees Pentagon officials cited staff recruitment and retention as reasons for the increases.
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...
