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'Absolutely Fed Up': Senator Mulls Ways to Force Pentagon to Boost Incentive Pay for Guardsmen and Reservists Sen. Tammy Duckworth suggested that the Pentagon has until the Senate Armed Services Committee debates its annual defense...
DoD Is Holding a Spouse-Only Virtual Job Fair and Giving Free Resume Help Military spouses anywhere can access one-on-one career coaching, employment webinars and virtual job interviews during the...
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VA Benefits Likely Won't Cover All of a Veteran's Funeral Costs A veteran's surviving family members may be caught off guard if they expect the VA to cover all the costs of a funeral or...
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Space Force Guardian Identified as Missing Hiker Who Died in Rocky Mountain National Park Space Force Sgt. Lucas Macaj was found Thursday on Mills Glacier, near the base of Lamb's Slide within the national park.
Clarence Sasser, Vietnam Medic Awarded Medal of Honor for Treating Troops Under Fire, Dies at 76 After returning to the U.S. from Vietnam, Sasser received his Medal of Honor from President Richard Nixon in 1969, in a...
101st Airborne Soldier Murdered in Off-Base Residence Near Fort Campbell in Kentucky Pfc. Katia Duenas-Aguilar, 23, was found dead in a residence about four miles outside of the base, according to a...
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ICC Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrant for Israeli and Hamas Leaders, Including Netanyahu The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas...
Unsupervised: Military Child Care Centers Slow to Report Abuse with Little Oversight A Military.com investigation into military day care centers revealed that service branch rules generally prioritize...
Unsupervised: Military Child Care Centers Slow to Report Abuse with Little Oversight A Military.com investigation into military day care centers revealed that service branch rules generally prioritize...
They Stood Sentry over America's Nuclear Missile Arsenal. Many Worry It Gave Them Cancer. For years, it was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era missile alert facilities and launch control centers...
They Stood Sentry over America's Nuclear Missile Arsenal. Many Worry It Gave Them Cancer. For years, it was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era missile alert facilities and launch control centers...
'Absolutely Fed Up': Senator Mulls Ways to Force Pentagon to Boost Incentive Pay for Guardsmen and Reservists Sen. Tammy Duckworth suggested that the Pentagon has until the Senate Armed Services Committee debates its annual defense...
Pentagon Says None of Food Aid Moved Through Gaza Pier Has Made It to Palestinians The Pentagon said Tuesday that it believes none of the hundreds of tons of aid delivered over several days via a military...
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Air Force General Charged with Sexual Crimes Has Retirement Request Denied by Service Secretary The secretary's decision means Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart, only the second Air Force general in history to be charged with a...
'Absolutely Fed Up': Senator Mulls Ways to Force Pentagon to Boost Incentive Pay for Guardsmen and Reservists Sen. Tammy Duckworth suggested that the Pentagon has until the Senate Armed Services Committee debates its annual defense...
Space Force Training HQ Gets Official Nod to Come to Space Coast Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, both former Air Force facilities, were named the presumptive...
Space Force Guardian Identified as Missing Hiker Who Died in Rocky Mountain National Park Space Force Sgt. Lucas Macaj was found Thursday on Mills Glacier, near the base of Lamb's Slide within the national park.
Marine from Twentynine Palms Randomly Gunned Down While Sitting in Car at Park Robert James McDonald was in his car at a park with his dog just 10 miles south of the installation when 18-year-old Rudy...
Last Service Member Released from Hospital After Landing Vessel Collision Injured 35 in Florida Two vessels called landing craft, air cushions, or LCACs, collided with each other on the night of May 1, resulting in 35...
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