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4 Tips for Service Members Selling a House over the Holidays Military homeowners know that although selling a home over the holidays isn’t ideal, it's often a necessary part of military...
Do Holiday Bargains Really Save You Money? It’s not a bad idea to take advantage of promotions. But be aware of how advertised “freebies” are factored into the price of...
5 Financial Strategies to Beat the Joneses You've probably heard the old saying, "Don't try to keep up with the Joneses." However, there can be a place for that type of...
Texas Tried to Block an Air Force Spouse's Occupational License. She Sued and Won, Setting a Legal Precedent. A federal judge in Texas ruled that the Texas Education Agency violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
VA Pauses Foreclosures on Veterans Facing Difficulties Making Mortgage Payments The announcement came after a National Public Radio report called attention to the plight of 34,000 veterans having trouble...
5 Financial Skills to Help Navigate the Holiday Season Happy holidays. Use these skills to safely navigate the season.
Biggest Military Pay Raise in 2 Decades Finalized in Newly Released Defense Bill Service members will get a 5.2% pay raise come January under the compromise annual defense bill unveiled Wednesday night.
Army Veteran Battling Terminal Cancer Gets His Wish to Shoot a Tank One Last Time In early 2022, Jay Tenison was diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer after reporting pain to his doctors. After months of...
Congress Tells Army to Set Higher Fitness Standards for Combat Arms Soldiers Congress is set to direct the Army to boost fitness standards for most combat-arms jobs through a compromise defense policy...
American Forces Must Strike Iran to Protect US Troops "The disproportionate scale of Iranian attacks to American responses lays bare that Iran, not the U.S., holds deterrence in...
US Military Grounds Entire Fleet of Osprey Aircraft Following a Deadly Crash off the Coast of Japan The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps took the extraordinary step of grounding hundreds of aircraft after a preliminary...
New Tricare Contracts Delayed by Months as Tricare West Region Contractor Fights to Retain Its Position Oral arguments in Health Net's federal claim against the Defense Health Agency's decision to award a $65 billion contract to...
US Military Grounds Entire Fleet of Osprey Aircraft The U.S. military announced late Wednesday it was grounding all of its Osprey V-22 aircraft, one week after eight...
103-Year-Old Pearl Harbor Survivor, One of the Few Left, Reflects on 82nd Anniversary Pearl Harbor survivor Ira Schab is planning to return to the Hawaii naval base 82 years after Japan's bombing...
Israel Releases Video of Troops in Khan Younis The Israeli military has released footage that it said showed forces from the 98th Division operating in Khan Younis...
Sheriff: Gunman's Parents Among 6 Dead in Attacks A Texas man suspected of killing his parents in San Antonio and four others in Austin in a violent...
What the Pentagon Has, Hasn't and Could Do to Stop Veterans and Troops from Joining Extremist Groups The military and its transition programs have largely failed to provide what experts say is necessary to steer troops and...
What the Pentagon Has, Hasn't and Could Do to Stop Veterans and Troops from Joining Extremist Groups The military and its transition programs have largely failed to provide what experts say is necessary to steer troops and...
Poisoned Water: How a Navy Ship Dumped Fuel and Sickened Its Own Crew A years-long investigation reveals that the Boxer unintentionally compromised its own water supply in 2016.
Poisoned Water: How a Navy Ship Dumped Fuel and Sickened Its Own Crew A years-long investigation reveals that the Boxer unintentionally compromised its own water supply in 2016.
Army Set to Retire Online Training System, Leaving Soldiers with 2-Week Gap in Access A key tool for the Army's online training apparatus will be taken offline next month in favor of an updated website...
Families Press for Investigation of Army Reservist Who Killed 18 in Maine Mass Shooting While representing varied political views, the families are united in seeking changes to ensure that what happened on Oct. 25...
USS Pearl Harbor Makes Hawaii Pit Stop The USS Pearl Harbor stopped in its namesake port this weekend as it concluded a Pacific deployment—its last for awhile as...
Deadly Osprey Incidents Mount as Air Force Investigates Potential Mechanical Issue in Japan Crash The most recent crash off the coast of Japan Nov. 29 killed all crew members aboard and triggered a grounding Wednesday of...
Deadly Osprey Incidents Mount as Air Force Investigates Potential Mechanical Issue in Japan Crash The most recent crash off the coast of Japan Nov. 29 killed all crew members aboard and triggered a grounding Wednesday of...
Former Fairchild Airman Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Possessing Stolen Military Ammunition A former Fairchild Air Force base airman was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing ammunition...
Space Force Reports 2 Suicides This Year, Marking the First in the Service's Short History Until this year, the relatively tiny and new Space Force had been an outlier among the other services as they have struggled...
Tommy Tuberville Is Just the Face of a 'Broken' Confirmation Process, Critics Say Anger over Sen. Tommy Tuberville's blockade of high-ranking military promotions may have hit a boiling point as a handful of...
Deadly Osprey Incidents Mount as Air Force Investigates Potential Mechanical Issue in Japan Crash The most recent crash off the coast of Japan Nov. 29 killed all crew members aboard and triggered a grounding Wednesday of...
3 Marines Found in Car Likely Died Due to Disconnected and Rusted Exhaust Pipes: Medical Examiner Report The three -- all lance corporals in the Corps -- were found by a fellow Marine after one of them failed to show up to the...
Coast Guard Highlights National Museum Project's Oldest Artifact At the Commonwealth Conservation Center In Carlisle, Pa., work has begun to restore an 18th-century fog signal cannon that is...
Coast Guard Drug Offload Highlights Cocaine's Path from South America to San Diego The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed eight indictments in San Diego and elsewhere detailing a massive narcotics...