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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
5 Ways Military Families Can Start to Get Ahead Financially Here are five actionable ideas derived from certified financial planner JJ Montanaro's take on the first Military Financial...
Ask Lacey: Does Paying Off Debt or Investing for the Future Take Priority? It’s usually better to eliminate your debt, or at least reduce it, before investing in long-term savings such as your IRA.
What to Do (and What Not to Do) with Your Pay Raise Here's what to do -- and what not to do -- to ensure your pay raise sets you up for financial success.
Enroll in DoD's New Health Care Flexible Spending Accounts Starting March 3 Military service members can set aside up to $3,300 tax free for medical expenses starting in 2025, the first time the...
More Money, Less Debt: New Study Reveals Military Households' Financial Trajectory Since 2019 While many military families appear to be doing better than their civilian counterparts financially, they still face...
Troop Pay Is Competitive with Civilian Workers, Pentagon Finds in Quadrennial Review The Quadrenial Review of Military Compensation was unveiled and reported that "the department's compensation package is...
The WWII Fighter Ace and Medal of Honor Recipient Who Helped Give America the Super Bowl When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December...
Migrants Describe Flights Aboard US Military Planes Carrying Out Swift Deportations The Trump administration has enlisted the U.S. military to quickly scale up its deportation capacity, which usually relies on...
Inside San Quentin Prison a Marine Found a New Kind of Family At San Quentin, my hope and dignity landed on a mental ledge.
VA Says 44 Programs Will Continue After Review Required by Trump Federal Funding Freeze In a statement released late Tuesday, department officials said all programs would continue uninterrupted.
Air Force General Fired from Leadership Due to 'Inappropriate Personal Relationships' Brig. Gen. Erik Quigley was removed from his position "following an internal investigation which revealed inappropriate...
3 Army Soldiers Killed in Tragic Collision with Passenger Plane Near DC Airport Three unidentified Army soldiers died after their Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger flight over Washington, D.C...
Freed Israeli Hostage Returns Home to Jerusalem Recently released Israeli hostage Karina Ariev waved from a car to crowds welcoming her as she was transported home...
Russian Spacecraft Carrying Military ‘Devices’ Blasts off From Northern Cosmodrome The Russian Defence Ministry released on Wednesday footage showing a Soyuz spacecraft blasting off from Russia's northern cosmodrome in...
Soldiers From El Salvador Join U.N.-Backed Mission in Haiti as U.S Pulls Funding A military contingent from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan...
U.S. Aid Freeze Puts at Risk Ukraine’s Wartime Help for Frontline Evacuees In what used to be this Ukraine town’s concert hall, cots are arranged on the stage and instead of...
Transgender Troops, Confronting Shifting Policies of Acceptance, Just Want to Serve Transgender troops' right to serve -- perhaps even to fight and die for a nation they volunteered to defend -- has been subject to a whiplash-inducing series of policy reversals and partisan squabbles and created uncertainty as to what they will confront in the coming years.
Transgender Troops, Confronting Shifting Policies of Acceptance, Just Want to Serve Transgender troops' right to serve -- perhaps even to fight and die for a nation they volunteered to defend -- has been subject to a whiplash-inducing series of policy reversals and partisan squabbles and created uncertainty as to what they will confront in the coming years.
Kings of Campus: How Some Army Instructors Use Their Clout to Prey on College Cadets To the young students in the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), the officers who run the programs on college campuses are impressive.
Kings of Campus: How Some Army Instructors Use Their Clout to Prey on College Cadets To the young students in the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), the officers who run the programs on college campuses are impressive.
Black Hawk in Deadly Collision May Have Turned Off Location Monitor, But Trump Blames Air Traffic Control System President Donald Trump blamed the deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter last week on what he called an...
Fort Carson Making Changes to Dining After Soldiers Voiced Complaints After facing criticism for its meals last year, a Fort Carson official said the base has made changes and is soliciting more...
Navy Stays Silent on Panama Canal Use as Negotiations on Fees Stall The Navy's decision to stay silent amid the negotiations with Panama makes it difficult to accurately determine just how much...
Army, Navy Pull Down Web Pages Devoted to Women in Military Service Pages that highlight the accomplishments of women in the Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard remain online.
Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights The Air Force is the only one of the military branches involved in President Donald Trump's mandated border mission to not...
Special Operations Memorial at MacDill Air Force Base Vandalized with Spray Paint The Special Operations Memorial, which is inside MacDill's gates, was likely vandalized sometime Tuesday evening, Troy Daland...
Ready for 156 Space Coast Launches This Year, Space Force Targets Bottlenecks The Space Force is prepped to support an average of 13 launches of month from the Space Coast in 2025, but it’s a juggling...
Colorado Military Base to House Migrants as ICE Widens Crackdown A U.S. military base in Aurora, Colorado, will be used to process and temporarily house migrants facing deportation, as...
US Marine and 3 Defense Contractors Killed in Philippines Plane Crash The aircraft was conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance at the request of -- and in support of -- the...
'We Learned a Lot': Marines, Sailors Reflect on Deployments Chock-Full of Equipment Challenges Leaders involved in the 2023-2024 deployments of the Wasp and Boxer Amphibious Ready Groups, or ARGs, described the...
Missing Commuter Plane Found Crashed on Alaska Sea Ice and All 10 Aboard Died, Coast Guard Says Mike Salerno, a spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard, said rescuers were searching the aircraft's last known location by...
Trump's Executive Orders Prompt Coast Guard 'Surge' in Hawaii Under Donald Trump’s second presidency, U.S. Coast Guard crews in Hawaii and the Pacific are set to be busy. But it’s not...