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Your Projected Military Pay Raise for 2025, Plus Veterans Pension and BAH Updates Under the National Defense Authorization Act, which received approval in the House on Dec. 11, troops in the ranks of E-1...
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Your Year-End Financial Action Plan, Part 2: Stay Ahead of the Tax Man By proactively managing your taxes at the end of the year, you can avoid surprises and ensure that your finances are in top...
4 Steps to Maximize Your Holiday Budget By planning ahead and sticking to these four tactics, you can enjoy the spirit of the holidays without the stress of...
Your Year-End Financial Action Plan, Part I: Setting the Stage A year-end financial review, when done right, acts as a recalibration for the goals that matter most to you and your family.
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Navy Drops Disciplinary Efforts Against 2 Navy Officers After Death of SEAL Candidate Kyle Mullen Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman decided to stop the boards of inquiry for Capt. Brad Geary, the commander of the Navy SEAL training...
Army Veteran Sentenced to Death for Killing 5 Women at a Florida Bank Zephen Xaver appeared to gulp but otherwise showed no emotion as Circuit Judge Angela Cowden pronounced the sentence at the...
More than Half of Senior Army Officers Are Turning Down Command Consideration More than half of the Army's senior officers are turning down opportunities to command, choosing instead the stability of...
Army Set to Debut Master Combat Badges in Spring, Memo Says The Army is set to begin awarding Master Combat Badges, which will combine expert and traditional combat badges, next spring...
Pentagon Officials, Aviation Experts Say Many Alleged Drone Sightings Are Being Misidentified The sightings in New Jersey and elsewhere, which so far remained unconfirmed, have triggered widespread concern and demands...
House Probe Finds Former Coast Guard Commandant Decided to Withhold Sexual Assault Findings An interim report into sexual assaults at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and subsequent cover-up of an investigation found the...
Trump Claims Government Knows What Drones Are In a far-ranging interview news conference, President-elect Donald Trump said the U.S. government "knows what is happening" with the...
Russian Forces Seen Withdrawing Toward Northern Syrian City of Tartus A lengthy convoy of Russian military vehicles were seen withdrawing from Latakia toward the Syrian city of Tartus on...
Schumer Calls on US Agencies to Use Advanced Technology to Identify Mysterious Drones After weeks of fear and bewilderment about the drones buzzing over parts of New York and New Jersey, U.S...
Mother of American Found in Syria: 'We All Want You Home' An American citizen who disappeared seven months ago into former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s notorious prison system said he...
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...
Soldier Reunited with Dog He Met While Deployed Overseas For eight months, Army Spc. Landon Gnade and his puppy Lepo called Camp Nothing Hill in northern Kosovo home. Before...
Body of a US Army Vet Killed Fighting in Ukraine Returns Home Like Army veteran Cedric "Charlie" Hamm, the foreign nationals from 52 countries fighting in Ukraine are drawn to the mission...
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The Air Force's Faltering Effort to Get More Diversity Among Officers May Be Out of Time The diversity targets set in 2022 marked the first time in nearly a decade that the service had amended the benchmarks for...
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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...
Former Marine Recruiter Indicted on Federal Sex, Porn Charges A recruiter for the U.S. Marine Corps held without bond since September on a state sexual battery charge in Mississippi has...
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US Coast Guard to Participate in First-Ever Drill in Tokyo Bay The coast guards of Japan, the United States, Australia and India are to conduct their first four-country drill at the Port...
House Probe Finds Former Coast Guard Commandant Decided to Withhold Sexual Assault Findings An interim report into sexual assaults at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and subsequent cover-up of an investigation found the...