Military Medical Retiree Changes, Cuts Should Halt Due to Pandemic: Senator Gillibrand wants the DoD to delay medical cuts and a plan to push retirees and families off base for care.
1,000 Coast Guard Kids May Get Kicked Out of On-Base Care as DoD Reorganizes About 1,000 children of Coast Guard families could lose their spots at base child development centers under a new DoD policy.
Vietnam, Gulf War Vets Get One Step Closer to New Benefit Vietnam-era and other pre-9/11 vets are closer to accessing a program designed to pay family support for in-home care.
Lawmakers Want More Info on Plan to Close Some Military Clinics to Retirees and Families Lawmakers expressed frustration over a lack of information on why military clinics are closing to retirees and families.
Online Commissary Privileges Finally Available to Newly Eligible Shoppers However, access to American Forces Travel (AFT), the official Morale, Welfare and Recreation travel site, is still spotty.
Lost Care and Broken Promises: Military Retirees React to Tricare Changes The DHA announced plans to halt care for military retirees, retiree families and active-duty family members at 38 facilities.
SecDef Signs Tenant Bill of Rights for Military Families However, some key rights weren't covered, including access to maintenance history and dispute resolution.
Pentagon Rolls Out New Way to Measure Progress of State Licensing for Military Spouses The scale, included in a recent report, measures how portable each state's military spouse licensing allowances laws are.
Marines to Review Proposed 1-Year Maternity Leave Policy for New Moms Commandant Gen. David Berger says he wants a formal recommendation on implementing a year-paid maternity leave policy.
More Than 3 Dozen Military Hospitals to Stop Treating Retirees, Families, Memo Shows Military families and retirees receiving care through 38 military hospitals nationwide will soon be forced to go off-base.
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...