Congresswoman to Colleagues: 'Man Up' and Overhaul Military Benefits A U.S. congresswoman implored her colleagues to "man up" and accept the recommendations from a blue-ribbon panel to overhaul...
Frustrations Mount Over Lack of Enlistees on Pay and Benefits Panel The lack of any former enlisted troops on a panel calling for overhauling military benefits is generating backlash.
Tricare to No Longer Cover Some Prescription Pain Killers The changes are designed to cut the health insurer's costs by no longer paying for compounds they considers unsafe or...
Veterans' Groups Clash Over Proposed Changes to Military Benefits Veterans' advocacy groups are clashing with each other over proposed changes to military retirement, health care and other...
House GOP Backs 401(k)-Like Military Retirement Plan, More Pay and BAH The subcommittee surprised many observers by including the provision to overhaul the military retirement system.
House Rejects Proposed Overhaul to Commissary and Tricare The House rejected proposed Tricare and commissary cuts, and will not be included in its version of the defense spending bill...
Obama: More Study Needed Before Overhauling Troop Pay, Benefits President Obama said he wants more time to review controversial proposals that would overhaul troop pay and benefits.
New Tricare Policy Gives Free Breast Pumps Troops and military family members are newly able to receive any manual, electric or hospital grade breast pump for free.
GOP Candidate Says Military Retirees Must Pay More for Health Care Sen. Lindsey Graham says Tricare fees must increase to help pay for the rising cost of military health care.
Pentagon Awards $9 Billion Contract for Electronic Health Records The U.S. Defense Department awarded one of the biggest health information-technology contracts in history to Leidos Inc.
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...
