Not Just a Hike: Mountain Climb Helps Gold Star Families Heal Gold Star Peak has a reputation among surviving families and groups that support them as more than just a challenging hike.
These Surrogate Grandparents Serve to Remember the Fallen Half of the dozen volunteers who make up G.I. Grannies and Gramps for Soldier Support are also families of fallen troops.
Tricare Updates Rules to Address Concerns About Access to Care Officials announced an addition to a list of circumstances under which users will be permitted to switch plans.
DoD Needs to Better Monitor Tricare Care Providers: Report DoD officials need to make sure civilian health care providers are giving military families good care, according to a report.
Proposed Rule Would Expand Respite Care Access for Families With Special Needs A proposed military benefits policy update would give more military families with special needs access to respite care.
VA Opens New Research Center Focused on Veteran Caregivers A new Department of Veterans Affairs research hub will focus on veteran caregiver challenges and services.
Pentagon's Spouse Scholarship Site Still Down After Server Failure DoD officials are scrambling to develop a workaround after a host server for its military spouse scholarship program failed.
Lawmakers Ask Pentagon to Reverse New GI Bill Transfer Restrictions Lawmakers want the DoD to reconsider blocking troops with 16 or more years from transferring their post-9/11 GI Bill.
Free Spouse LinkedIn Premium Program Now Live Ready to get a free LinkedIn Premium account? The new benefit is now available.
More Dental Coverage, Spouse Employment Help Coming in Defense Bill This series of proposals is one step closer to becoming law.
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...
