Military Health System's New 'Markets' Share Patients, Staff in Name of Efficiency Tricare beneficiaries in select regions will try out a plan that will let them go to other bases for specialized treatment.
Military Families Need a Safety Net During Military Health System Reform Recent short-notice Middle East deployments are stark reminders of the challenges military members and their families face.
Inaugural Military Spouse Virtual Career Expo to Tackle Unemployment Military spouses are an important part of military life, so the Army Chief of Staff is focusing on improving their lives in...
New Law Will Make It Easier for Military Spouses to Keep Licenses During a PCS The Pentagon has been directed to work with states to remove bureaucratic roadblocks.
Air Force Awards $50,000 Grant to Help Treat Infertility in Airmen The Air Force is investing $50K in a progesterone-testing kit company that could help service members trying to conceive.
VA's Dental Insurance Program Is Back The program restarted December 1, 2017 and will run for at least 4 more years.
Defense Budget Would Allow Pentagon to Pay Military Medical Malpractice Claims Advocates are hailing it as a partial victory over the longstanding "Feres Doctrine."
'Widow's Tax' to Be Eliminated by 2023 in Proposed Defense Budget The final version of the fiscal 2020 defense budget would phase out the so-called "widow's tax" over three years if passed.
Military Families Get Access to Hundreds More Child Care Centers in Pilot Program Military families struggling to find child care could get help if the DoD has success with a new two-year pilot program.
Tricare Enrollment for 2020 Is Now Open Nov. 11 is the beginning of Tricare's open enrollment season for nearly 9.5 million service members, vets and their families.
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...
