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Military Personnel Swear Allegiance to the Constitution and Serve the American People, Not One Leader or Party
Companies and Universities Can Help Reverse Military Recruiting Shortfalls Threatening America's National Security
15% Enlisted Pay Hike, Other Proposed Quality-of-Life Improvements Get Big Boost from House Lawmakers The Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement Act would enact most of the key recommendations from the military quality-of...
VA Beneficiaries: Here's How to Get Free Financial Counseling Department of Veterans Affairs beneficiaries now have access to free financial coaching through the Veterans Benefits Banking...
Intimidated by Investing? Do It Systematically One way to ease the fear of investing is to do it systematically. Here's why.
VA Introduces New 'Last Resort' Loan Program to Help Roughly 40,000 Veterans Keep Their Homes The new Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase program was designed to assist those who are in such hardship, they can't access...
The Best Auto Repair Tools: A Short Guide for Service Members Investing in a few basic tools can save you thousands of dollars in mechanic bills.
Build Up from a Solid Financial Foundation with This Pyramid-Style Approach If retirement planning and preparation is an area of your life you are looking to build out, here are a few items you might...
Troubled USS Boxer Returns Home 10 Days into Deployment Due to Maintenance Issue The maintenance-embattled USS Boxer is heading back to San Diego just 10 days after deploying due to an engineering issue, as...
On Newly Quiet Stretch of US-Mexico Border, Louisiana Soldiers Sit Around, Watch and Wait The Louisiana soldiers are spaced in groups of two or three over the 1.5 mile, 400-yard-wide strip of land.
How the Army Made a Deal with UFL Football and The Rock Despite Doubts over the Sponsorship's Worth The roughly $11 million deal set the service up to be the premier partner for the league's inaugural season, which started...
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...
'Restore Real Value': House Panel Wants to Give Junior Enlisted Troops 15% Pay Raise The recommendation on boosting paychecks is part of the final report from the House Armed Services Committee's military...
A Decade After Scandal, VA Health Care May Be at Another Crossroads The VA has requested $369.3 billion for its fiscal 2025 budget, a proposal that includes nearly $150 billion for health care...
A Woman Injured After Drone Downed in Russia's Voronezh A woman was injured, and several houses were damaged by fallen fragments of a Ukrainian drone that was downed...
Israel, Iran, Ukraine at Top of G7 Agenda: AP Explains Group of Seven foreign ministers are meeting on the Italian resort island of Capri, with the agenda topped by...
Biden Honors Uncle Who He Says Was Shot Down During WWII in an Area Known to Have 'Cannibals' President Joe Biden on Wednesday visited a memorial near his Pennsylvania hometown to honor his late uncle’s service in...
French Navy Gives Rare Tour of Nuclear Submarine Another week, another mission for one of France’s veteran nuclear-powered attack submarines. (Apr. 18) AP
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...
Jury Deliberating in Iraq Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse Civil Case; Contractor Casts Blame on Army A lawyer for a military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq says the...
20 Years After Death, Pat Tillman Still Inspires Those Who Knew Him Well — And Many He Never Met It was 20 years ago, on April 22, 2004, that Tillman was killed at age 27 by friendly fire in a firefight in Spera...
Navy Chief Petty Officer Convicted of Attempted Espionage at San Diego Court-Martial The Navy has convicted a chief petty officer of attempted espionage, among other charges, at a court-martial in San Diego...
Red Hill Community Panel Says Navy Leaving Questions Unanswered Members of the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative are expressing frustration with federal officials who declined to...
Nomination of Air Force Officer at Center of GOP's Fight Against 'Woke' Military Extended to 2025 Col. Ben Jonsson's nomination to become a one-star general was set to expire May 1 under a law that says military officer...
Barksdale Air Force Base Closes Dining Hall Due to 'Pest Control Issue' as Photos of Rodents Shared Online Base officials did not confirm the type of pests, but the closure came as photos reportedly of mice and rodents in the...
Vandenberg Space Force Base Deemed Contaminant Free Amid Rising Cancer Concerns Among Missile Personnel The findings "found no instances of contamination above regulatory action levels" after testing for polychlorinated biphenyls...
Ohio Governor Opposes Push to Move Guard Units into Space Force Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has voiced opposition to a move to pull units from the National Guard for inclusion in the U.S. Space...
Camp Lejeune Sergeant Identified as Marine Killed During Training in North Carolina Sgt. Colin Arslanbas, a Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, died Thursday evening during a training...
Terry Anderson, AP Reporter Abducted in Lebanon and Held Captive for Years, Has Died at 76 After graduating from high school, Anderson turned down a scholarship to the University of Michigan in favor of enlisting in...
Several Dozen Ships Lost Propulsion in Maryland Waters Before Key Bridge Collapse: 'You're Basically Just Drifting' What went wrong aboard the Dali, the 984-foot ship that weighed 112,000 tons when it struck the bridge, and whether it could...
Coast Guard Reopens Ohio River Near Pittsburgh to Maritime Traffic After Sunken Barge Is Found The U.S. Coast Guard has reopened the Ohio River in Pittsburgh to maritime traffic, nearly four days after 26 barges broke...