Tricare Will Stop Sending Notifications by Mail Tricare is no longer sending most beneficiaries notices by postal mail and instead will be pushing them through the Defense...
Most Base Pharmacies Now Accepting Electronic Prescriptions A new Tricare pharmacy program allows doctors outside on-base clinics and treatment centers to send prescriptions...
Tricare Users Must Self Identify on 2014 Tax Forms Tricare users will need to identify themselves and their families on their 2014 tax forms as having healthcare coverage...
Wait Continues to See What Tricare will Cover for Breastfeeding Moms Mothers looking to use Tricare's breastfeeding supplies and support coverage will have to wait an unknown amount of time to...
Panel Proposes Overhauling Military Retirement and Tricare A panel recommended overhauling the decades-old retirement system and dismantling the existing health care program for...
Lawmakers Noncommittal on Military Retirement and Health Care Changes President Obama and members of Congress on Thursday were quick to praise the Military Compensation and Retirement Commission...
Pentagon 2016 Budget Includes Pay Raise, More BAH Cuts, Tricare Merger The DoD's proposed budget calls for a modest pay raise but more cuts to housing allowances, while consolidating Tricare...
Pentagon's Budget Proposal Increases Costs to Families A series of changes proposed in the president's annual budget plan looks to drastically change Tricare, increase health care...
Panel Clashes with Pentagon on Cuts to Pay and Housing Allowances Members of the panel on military compensation and retirement reform said raises and housing allowances are"operating...
Lawmakers Praise Commission in Debating Military Benefits Changes U.S. lawmakers this week praised the work of a commission on military compensation and retirement reform.
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...
