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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...
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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.
Rescue Turns to Recovery as More Crew Members in Deadliest Air Force Osprey Crash Are Identified The Air Force released the names of seven more crew members who perished last week during training when their CV-22 Osprey...
Dozens of Troops Suspected of Advocating Overthrow of US Government, New Pentagon Extremism Report Says The report released by the Defense Department inspector general revealed that in fiscal 2023 there were 183 allegations of...
Army Veteran Files Lawsuit Alleging VA Computer System Delayed Cancer Diagnosis A veteran and his wife are suing the federal government and the companies behind a computer system the Department of Veterans...
Thousands of Troops May Be Caught in Medical Debt. Sen. Elizabeth Warren Wants the Pentagon to Find Out How Many. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is pressing the Pentagon to improve its policies to safeguard troops from excessive medical...
Air Force’s Missileer Cancer Study Now Looking at 14 Different Cancers and Environmental Risks at Other Bases Carcinogens that likely cause cancer -- such as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs -- were detected and cleaned up at three...
VA to Open 3 New Vet Centers, Expand 6 Satellite Centers in Various States Early Next Year The centers provide nonmedical counseling and therapy, referrals and more to veterans who may not necessarily be eligible for...
Austin Calls out Those Who Favor Isolationism Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday denounced those who advocate “an American retreat from responsibility” and said sustained U.S...
SpaceX Launches South Korean Military Spy Satellite From California SpaceX launched the Korea 425 mission, Korea's first military spy satellite, to low-Earth orbit Friday from Vandenberg Space Force...
Body Pulled From Rubble as Israeli Strikes on Gaza Resume After Cease-Fire With Hamas Ends A body was pulled from the rubble of a destroyed building in Khan Younis on Friday as Israeli warplanes...
More Hostages, Prisoners Freed on Day 7 of Gaza Truce Hamas militants have released eight more Israeli hostages under a last-minute agreement to extend their cease-fire by another day...
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.
Lawyer Picked to Prosecute Army Sexual Assault Is Fired over an Old Email Doubting Victims' Claims The lawyer selected to be the Army's first top prosecutor of sexual assaults under an overhaul of the military justice system...
Army Warns Recruiting Efforts Could Take a Hit if Congress Doesn't Pass Ukraine and Israel Funding Army Under Secretary Gabe Camarillo said efforts to solve the military recruiting crisis are "absolutely ... hamstrung" by...
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...
Ingalls Christens Navy's Newest Amphibious Assault Ship, Future USS Bougainville Ingalls Shipbuilding christened the U.S. Navy’s newest amphibious assault ship, the future USS Bougainville (LHA 8), during...
Rescue Turns to Recovery as More Crew Members in Deadliest Air Force Osprey Crash Are Identified The Air Force released the names of seven more crew members who perished last week during training when their CV-22 Osprey...
Remains Found of 5 More Air Force Crew Members Recovered After Osprey Crash Off Japan Coast Dive teams located the missing crew as well as the main fuselage of the aircraft, which went down in the ocean during...
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...
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No One Was Injured when a US Navy Plane Landed in a Hawaii Bay, but Some Fear Environmental Damage Concerns about environmental damage are looming a day after a large U.S. Navy plane overshot a runway and landed in a Hawaii...
Navy Plane Overshoots Runway and Ends Up in Ocean, but All 9 Aboard Escape Unharmed A Navy plane flying in rainy weather overshot a runway Monday at a military base in Hawaii and splashed into Kaneohe Bay, but...