Soldier’s Family Awarded 'Multimillion Dollar' Medical Malpractice Claim From DoD The family of Army Staff Sgt. Alfred "Fred" Brazel has received one of the largest awards to date under a law that allowed...
More Than a Million Tricare Users Must Switch Managers After Massive Contract Decision Tricare beneficiaries in the West Region will get a new managed care contractor in 2024 under a major contract award to...
Applications Are Now Open for the DoD's Paid Private Fellowship Program for Military Spouses The fellowship aims to place "career-ready spouses with civilian employers for 12 weeks of professional training, networking...
Cuts to Stateside Cost of Living Allowances Coming for Service Members as Other Pays Go Up Next year about 1,000 fewer troops will be getting an allowance intended to help them live in expensive parts of America, the...
You're Going to Have to Reconfirm Tricare Mail Order Refills Starting Jan. 1 In an effort to reduce waste and ensure timely refills, Express Scripts will now ask beneficiaries to approve prescription...
Understanding SBP Payments to an Incapacitated Child One feature of the military's Survivor Benefit Plan is the ability to assign benefits to a child, including an incapacitated...
Thousands of Pharmacies Will Return to Tricare in January The return will brings back a fraction of the nearly 15,000 pharmacies that left the network in October.
Thousands of Tricare Pharmacy Locations Could Be Lost Due to Kroger-Albertsons Merger Tricare beneficiaries who fill their prescriptions at Kroger began receiving letters last week informing them of the company...
Basic Allowance for Subsistence Gets Record Increase in Upcoming Year The BAS increase is the largest in more than a decade.
Commissary Unveils New Grocery Pickup App as Service Continues to Be Free The commissary's grocery pickup program now has a dedicated shopping app aimed at making it easier for users to place orders...
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...
