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Florida Residents Living Out of State Need to Check Driver's License, Registration Status Military families are running into roadblocks and getting bad information when trying to resolve insurance-related...
Knock Out Your 2024 Financial Spring Cleaning with These 6 Tasks This spring, clean up more than your garage with a focused effort to fine-tune your finances.
New Employer Tax Credit Helps Military Spouses Get 401(k) Retirement Benefits The Secure 2.0 Act provided the new credit to incentivize employers to quickly enroll and vest spouses in the plans.
Military Continuation Pay: The Mid-Career Bonus You Don't Want to Miss Out On Unfortunately, some military service members miss out on their mid-career continuation pay bonus, because they don't know the...
Don't Wait to Invest Just Because You're in Debt Knocking out debt is a laudable goal. However, knocking it all out before you begin to save is typically not a sound approach...
Veteran Travel Reimbursement Headaches Prompt VA to Pursue New Options for Claims Filing, Processing Following complaints from veterans and a critical VA Office of Inspector General report on the VA's travel system, the...
Marine Corps Sends Special Response Unit to Haiti After Partial US Embassy Evacuation U.S. Southern Command said that the need for the FAST came at the request of the State Department, and that it "is prepared...
Navy's Ambitious New Effort Aims to Give Sailors Understanding of 'What Right Looks Like' In an administrative message released with little fanfare, the Navy quietly embarked on an ambitious effort that leaders hope...
Dallas Police Officers who Laughed at Veteran Denied Restroom Get Written Reprimands Dallas police officials handed down written reprimands to four officers seen on video mocking a disabled veteran who urinated...
Court Overturns Conviction of Former Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Naked Air Force Veteran Robert “Chip” Olsen was responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an apartment complex 2015 when he killed...
Air Force Missile Base Personnel Have Elevated Breast, Prostate Cancer Rates, Initial Study Results Indicate The early results, shared by the service and reported for the first time here, indicate elevated rates of breast and prostate...
'Days Where We Wouldn't Even Shoot': US Vet Fighting in Ukraine Pleads with Congress to Pass Stalled Aid Army National Guard veteran Ryan O'Leary saw what a difference it made when U.S. cluster munitions were delivered to the...
Blinken: US Working on Maritime Corridor that Will Enable Distribution of Meals to Gaza Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is working to establish a maritime corridor that will be used...
Explosions in Gaza Strip Send Plumes of Smoke and Dust into the Air Explosions were seen in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday as Israel continues its offensive against Hamas in the territory...
US Army Soldier Indicted, Accused of Selling Sensitive Military Information An Army soldier has been arrested on accusations of selling sensitive information related to U.S. military capabilities, Justice Department...
White House Pushing for Gaza Cease-Fire as Israel Says an Israeli-American Hostage Has Died The White House is focused on pursing a cease-fire agreement in Gaza, even as the deadline to achieve a...
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...
Millions of Vets Got Health Care and Benefits Under the PACT Act. Thousands Left Out Want the Same Chance. Legislation passed in 2022 expanded benefits for former troops sickened by burn pits, Agent Orange and contaminated water at...
Millions of Vets Got Health Care and Benefits Under the PACT Act. Thousands Left Out Want the Same Chance. Legislation passed in 2022 expanded benefits for former troops sickened by burn pits, Agent Orange and contaminated water at...
Duty, Honor, Outrage: Change to West Point's Mission Statement Sparks Controversy Officials at the 222-year-old military academy 60 miles north of New York City recently reworked the one-sentence mission...
Soldiers Said Goodbye to Loved Ones as Army Ships Set Sail to Gaza to Build Pier for Aid Delivery The 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) is set to play a key role in relieving a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza...
Navy Fires Commander of USS Ohio -- 3rd Submarine Skipper Relieved in 7 Months The commanding officer of the USS Ohio sub's gold crew -- Capt. Kurt Balagna -- was relieved by Rear Adm. Nicholas Tilbrook...
Sailors Will Now Get 24/7 Access to All Base Gyms Under Navy's New Policy The change stems from the desire to help sailors who were working outside of regular hours, such as those on night shifts...
Air Force Veteran David Harris, the First Black Pilot Hired by a Major US Airline, Has Died at 89 David E. Harris, who flew bombers for the U.S. military and broke barriers in 1964 when he became the first Black pilot hired...
Air Force Missile Base Personnel Have Elevated Breast, Prostate Cancer Rates, Initial Study Results Indicate The early results, shared by the service and reported for the first time here, indicate elevated rates of breast and prostate...
Space Force Is Facing Its First-Ever Budget Cuts Just as Space Threats from Abroad Are Growing The service, which was established in 2019, is requesting $29.4 billion for fiscal 2025, about $600 million -- or 2% -- less...
Space Force Guardians Just Got Their Own Service-Specific Physical Training Uniforms Space Force Guardians have finally received their own physical training uniforms that will distinguish their identity while...
Two Commanders in Marine Corps' West Coast Infantry School Fired on Same Day Col. Seth "S.W." MacCutcheon, the commander of the School of Infantry-West, and Maj. Nicholas Engle, the commander of the...
Marine Corps Sends Special Response Unit to Haiti After Partial US Embassy Evacuation U.S. Southern Command said that the need for the FAST came at the request of the State Department, and that it "is prepared...
Coast Guard Navigates Bureaucracy in Fight Against Illegal Fishing Competition over dwindling fish resources has led to international tensions, and in some cases clashes in places like the...
FBI Looking into 'Debris' Found Off Alaska's Coast The FBI said it will help with "debris" recovery after a CNN news report that a "possible spy balloon" may have been...