Here Are the Air Force's Toughest Jobs That Earn a Bonus, But the Service Won't Explain Planned Cuts The Air Force has approved 78 jobs to receive special duty assignment pay for 2025, an increase from the 70 for 2024, but...
White House 'Strongly Opposes' Proposed 19.5% Pay Hike for Junior Enlisted Troops The statement from the White House suggested Congress should wait until the administration's review is done to make any...
Nurses Rally at VA Headquarters in DC to Protest Staffing Reductions During a rally outside the Department of Veterans Affairs, the nurses, all members of the National Nurses United union, said...
Money for 19.5% Pay Hike for Junior Enlisted Troops Included in House's Defense Spending Bill Funding to support a 19.5% pay raise for junior enlisted troops is included in the House's initial version of the annual...
White House Threatens to Veto VA, Military Construction Spending Bill over GOP Policies The White House is threatening to veto the annual Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction funding bill over...
The VA and DoD Don't Have a Funding Problem. They Have a Mismanagement Crisis. The $328.1 billion 2024 budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs is the largest in agency history. President Joe Biden's...
After Failing to Overturn VA Abortion, LGBTQ+ Policies, House Republicans Try Again with Must-Pass Bill Kicking off the fiscal 2025 appropriations process with controversial policy riders sets the stage for a replay of the...
Army Planning Big Boost to Pacific Operations Next Year with More Training, Deployments and Equipment The Army is seeking to better prepare itself for a potential conflict in the Pacific, with increased spending on regional...
US Troops Killed in Plane Crashes Skyrockets in 2017 This year, 37 U.S. service members have died in plane crashes -- more than 130 percent higher than at this point last year.
Trump Touts Military Pay Raise That Congress Has Yet to Pass President Donald Trump promised that the military would be getting the largest pay raise in eight years.
Marine Raiders Ordered to Stop Wearing Multicam Uniforms to Align Elite Unit with Broader Service The special operations Marines will abandon the pattern worn by units such as Army Special Forces on Jan. 1, a spokesman said...
Navy Confirms Just One More Chief, Officer Punished for Illicit Wi-Fi Network on Warship Between the investigation and Fields' update, the publicly acknowledged sum total of punishments meted out for the Wi-Fi...
Shaw Air Force Base Dining Halls Are Closed Until 2026. Relatives Worry Young Airmen Aren't Getting Healthy Meals. Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina has not had an operating dining hall for airmen in nearly a year and a half, leaving...
Air Force Uses B-2 Bomber for First Time in Combat Since 2017, Sending Message to Iran The bombers conducted airstrikes on five underground weapons facilities, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, and the...
Investigation of SEALs Drowning Also Uncovers Allegations of Performance-Enhancing Drug Use, Secret Surgery The Navy investigation stressed that "the allegations raised in the complaint were not root causes" of the decision to...