9 Military Hospitals Receive Top Marks for Patient Safety The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit aimed at improving patient care, published grades for 21 Defense Health Agency facilities in...
Tricare Lowers Age for Colon Cancer Screenings to 45 The change in coverage comes as people younger than 50 are getting colon cancer more often, according to the American Cancer...
Marine Corps Creates Billet to Keep Dual-Military Families Together During Stressful Moves The billet, which is called the dual-military coordinator, will act as a liaison between couples and their career monitors in...
Military Clinicians Not Particularly Happy with DoD’s New Electronic Health Records System, Watchdog Finds A new report finds that the system, now used at all military treatment facilities except for most dental clinics, earns low...
Why Divorce Is Particularly Hard on Military Families According to reports based on U.S. Census Bureau data, those who have served in the military have the highest divorce rate of...
Will a Federal Fix for Complex License Rules Help Combat Military Spouse Unemployment? Without the ability to transfer licenses across states, military spouses aren't able to take advantage of the hard work they...
The Cost of Medical Stigmas for Military Families Decades of help-discouraging behavior and outdated medical policies have fueled a pervasive stigma that impacts military...
Have Military Spouses Removed Barriers That Prevented Them from Working Overseas? The National Military Spouse Network, or NMSN, advocates for improvements to military spouse employment opportunities...
How Timely Orders Can Make or Break a Military Experience When orders do not arrive with enough lead time to schedule a move with a transportation office, many families are forced to...
Will the Tenant Bill of Rights Fix Privatized Military Housing? The Tenant Bill of Rights outlined 18 provisions designed to give military families leverage if they found themselves stuck...
Police Who Shot Florida Airman 6 Times in His Home May Have Entered Wrong Apartment, Family Says Senior Airman Roger Fortson lived in an off-base residence, and his special operations squadron at Hurlburt Field in the...
Florida Airman Was Shot by Deputy Within Seconds of Opening Apartment Door, Body Cam Footage Shows Only as Fortson is lying on the floor of his apartment fatally wounded does the deputy tell him to drop his weapon, a firearm...
'They Took My Gift Away': In Interview, Mother of Florida Airman Killed by Police Describes Shock Meka Fortson told Military.com in an exclusive interview Thursday that her son, Senior Airman Roger Fortson, had always...
Army Pumping Millions into Food Kiosks, But They May Soon Be Obsolete Kiosks are effectively small snack stands providing soldiers with sandwiches, candy, chips and soda -- offerings that hold...
Apache Crash Injures 2 Fort Riley Soldiers as Army Grapples with Nonstop Aviation Incidents The pair of soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division's Combat Aviation Brigade were being treated for injuries after the crash...