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Why Thanksgiving Is the Perfect Time for Important Financial Conversations in Your Military Family In military families, where change is constant and the future is sometimes uncertain, Thanksgiving offers a rare and valuable...
Tricare Changes are Coming in 2025. Here’s What Beneficiaries Need to Know Right Now Tricare beneficiaries need to be aware of changes taking place in both the East and West regions and may need to take action...
Basic Needs Allowance Overview The Basic Needs Allowance can potentially add hundreds of dollars to the paycheck of a military member with a family whose...
When Is a Good Time to Change Your Thrift Savings Plan Investments? If an investor is feeling a lot of stress regarding their investments, that could indicate that it’s time to reevaluate their...
Tricare Costs Are Going Up Again in 2025 Military and retiree households will pay more for Tricare in 2025, with most increases in the 2% to 3% range.
Pentagon Blind to Troop Woes in Areas Across US with Limited Housing Options, Report Finds The report is just the latest in a long series of government reports and media coverage that shows the Pentagon has been...
Trump Reportedly Weighs Immediate Discharge of All Transgender Troops. Here's What That Would Mean. The proposed plan, as first reported by the Times of London, would entail signing an order within days of Trump taking office...
The Best Amazon Black Friday Week 2024 Deals for Service Members, Veterans and Their Families America’s favorite shopping holiday isn’t just a single day, or even a weekend, anymore. Here’s how U.S. service members...
Overseas Troops to See Fewer Sweets, More Sweet Potatoes on Their Holiday Tables This Year For some unexplained reason, the Defense Logistics Agency is shipping 800% more sweet potatoes overseas than it did last...
For Soldiers at Fort Carson, Food Is Scarce As Americans gather for Thanksgiving feasts, soldiers at Fort Carson, Colorado, are contending with a far less festive...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
Former Navy Officer ‘Driven by Greed’ Steals over $850,000 in Military Gear, Feds Say Richard Allen, 53, pleaded guilty Aug. 29 to conspiracy and six counts of money laundering. Now he'll serve 18 months in...
Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah Reach Ceasefire Deal, AP Explains Israel has agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon that will take effect at 4 a.m. Wednesday. (Nov...
Displaced People Return to South Lebanon as Ceasefire Appears to Hold Cars strapped with mattresses started to make their way from Beirut towards the south early on Wednesday following the...
US to Give Antipersonnel Mines to Ukraine to Help Slow the Russian Advance U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to...
NATO Troops Take Part in Artillery Drills in Finland for First Time Since It Joined Military Alliance Several thousand NATO troops took part in large-scale artillery drills in Finland for the first time since the country...
Unsupervised: Military Child Care Centers Slow to Report Abuse with Little Oversight A Military.com investigation into military day care centers revealed that service branch rules generally prioritize...
Unsupervised: Military Child Care Centers Slow to Report Abuse with Little Oversight A Military.com investigation into military day care centers revealed that service branch rules generally prioritize...
They Stood Sentry over America's Nuclear Missile Arsenal. Many Worry It Gave Them Cancer. For years, it was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era missile alert facilities and launch control centers...
They Stood Sentry over America's Nuclear Missile Arsenal. Many Worry It Gave Them Cancer. For years, it was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era missile alert facilities and launch control centers...
Trump Selects Retired General Keith Kellogg as Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia As special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg will have to navigate an increasingly untenable war between the two...
160 Years Later, Descendants of Army's Sand Creek Massacre Still Wait for Justice Friday, Nov. 29, marks 160 years since the Sand Creek bloodshed, and the pain of the tragedy still haunts descendants of...
Trump Picks Big Donor with Background in Finance and Little Experience with the Military for Navy Secretary John Phelan is President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of the Navy, the first service leadership position that the...
Navy Veteran and ‘Love Connection’ Television Host Chuck Woolery Dead at 83 Before longtime game-show host Chuck Woolery started his decades-long career on television, he served in the U.S. Navy aboard...
Elon Musk, Charged with Cutting Federal Spending, Calls the F-35 a Waste of Money Billionaire Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, said on Tuesday on X (formerly Twitter) that the U.S. should pull the...
Does the Military Need Social Media Influencers? New military influencers are popping up daily talking about military life -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
Does the Military Need Social Media Influencers? New military influencers are popping up daily talking about military life -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
Colorado Springs Named Permanent Home for 250 Delta 15 Space Force Guardians, Ahead of Possible Space Command Fight The Air Force announced last week 250 Space Force guardians with Delta 15, dedicated to protecting and defending operations...
Marine Corps Says it Will Reimburse Nursing Mothers Up to $1,000 for Shipping Breast Milk During Moves The Marine Corps will reimburse its troops up to $1,000 for shipping breast milk during a permanent change of station move...
Marine Corps Worried About How to Move and Supply Troops After Navy Sidelines 17 Support Ships The Navy will sideline 17 ships to contend with a shortage of civilian mariners, the Military Sealift commander said last...
Does the Military Need Social Media Influencers? New military influencers are popping up daily talking about military life -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
Inside President Biden's Historic New York Friendsgiving Coast Guard Visit: 'Thank You ... We Owe You' President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden traveled to Staten Island for a "Friendsgiving Event" to break bread with...