Services Ordered to Cut PCS Moves by 50% over Next 5 Years The services are tasked with cuts that amount to an initial 10% of the $5 billion PCS budget in 2027 and that increase...
Hegseth Orders Review of Defense Department's Support for Homeschooling A memo released Tuesday directs the Defense Department to examine its educational support and resources for families who...
Hegseth Restricts Press Access at Pentagon, Says Journalists Will Be Required to Sign Pledge Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken yet another step to curtail the work of the press inside the Pentagon by imposing...
Pentagon Sends 1,100 More Troops to Border in Continued Mission Ramp-Up The Pentagon is sending 1,115 additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border from over half a dozen units across the different...
Pentagon Lost Contact with Army Helicopter on Flight That Caused Jets to Nix Landings at DC Airport The aborted landings on May 1 added to general unease about continued close calls between government helicopters and...
Problems with Privatized Household Goods Shipments Prompt Hegseth to Order Immediate Changes The directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth follows a rash of issues with a contract meant to privatize the Defense...
GOP's 'Big Beautiful' Bill with $8.5 Billion for Military Quality-of-Life Boost Passes House The Pentagon funding could provide a much-needed boost to barracks maintenance, military health care and other areas that...
Trump Names Space Force Vice Chief to Oversee Golden Dome Missile Defense Project President Donald Trump has named a four-star Space Force general to oversee the development of Golden Dome -- the massively...
Most Books Pulled from Naval Academy Library Are Back on the Shelves in Latest DEI Turn All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with anti...
Hegseth Starts Evangelical Prayer Services at Pentagon with His Tennessee Church Pastor The defense secretary's personal pastor from a Tennessee church whose leaders have a documented history of advocating for...
Army Expands Combat Patch Eligibility as Modern Deployments Redefine Combat Service The Army expanded combat patch eligibility, recognizing soldiers in modern deployments where risk is high even without...
You Took Separation Pay Years Ago. Now the VA Wants It Back From Your Disability Check. Under federal law, a veteran cannot receive both separation pay and VA disability compensation for the same period of service...
25 Years: Nephew Remembers P.O.W. Navy Pilot Dieter Dengler Who Escaped Vietnam Dieter Dengler, who died about 25 years ago, was "bigger than life."
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
3 Big PCS Changes Are Coming at Once. Here’s What Service Members Need to Know Before Peak Season. In 2026, three major changes are affecting military household goods moves: a new permanent agency to run the system, the end...
![Flight path of Army Black Hawk "PAT23" on a May 1, 2025](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-05/ApNewsroom_Army_Helicopter_Aborted_Landing_22282.jpg?itok=GOBdjEpf "This image provided by the U.S. Army shows a screenshot of data from the Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast, or ADS-B, of the flight path of Army Black Hawk "PAT23" on a May 1, 2025, flight that led to air traffic controllers aborting the landings of two commercial jets. (U.S. Army via AP)")
