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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...
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...
Coast Guard Set to Receive New Icebreaker by Year's End, Bolstering US Presence in Arctic The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic...
Marine Corps F-35C Was Used in Combat for First Time to Strike Houthis, Military Confirms Traveling at speeds of 1,200 mph, the F-35C can carry Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, air-to-air missiles and other...
Military Diversity Is Not the Problem "The main reason for concern about the U.S. military and its performance has to do with the variety of U.S. commitments and...
MacDill Airman Gets 5 Years Of Probation in 'Undead Apes' Blockchain Fraud U.S. District Judge William Jung sentenced Devin Rhoden to five years’ probation, a reflection of Rhoden’s substantial...
House Approves Wide-Ranging Veterans Bill After Bipartisan Compromise Reached A wide-ranging veterans policy bill that would bolster home caregiver programs and support for homeless veterans, among other...
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...
Austin Explains Decision to Supply Ukraine With Landmines Outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin explained a decision to supply Ukraine with anti-personnel landmines during a briefing...
Ukrainian Students Light Candles to Remember 659 Children Killed in Conflict With Russia Ukrainian students on Wednesday paused to remember the children killed in the conflict with Russia by lighting 659 candles...
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...
Army Offers $15,000 Reward for Info on Missing Guns and Other Gear at Fort Moore Army investigators are still searching for 31 M17 pistols that disappeared from Fort Moore, Georgia, earlier this year, but...
Police Report Sheds New Light on Pentagon Nominee Hegseth's Sexual Encounter that Led to Assault Allegation Pete Hegseth, who is tapped to lead the military and the nation's largest federal bureaucracy, has vehemently denied the...
'Fat Leonard' to Appeal Sentence, While Retired Navy Captain Will Seek a Reduced Charge The prison term imposed by U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino at the Nov. 5 sentencing hearing was more than three years...
How Cher's 'Turn Back Time' Music Video Made Even the Navy Blush A video featuring Cher singing to a rowdy group of American sailors would have been no trouble for anyone involved -- if it...
Air Force's Special Operations Crop Duster Plane Will Be Flown for Training at Oklahoma Base An Air National Guard base in Oklahoma will host the first formal training unit for the service's armed recon crop duster...
What It's Like to Live and Work with the World's Deadliest Weapon: the Minuteman III ICBM Some parts of North Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska are home to some 400 nuclear-tipped ICBMs and the 10,000...
Pentagon Silent on Elon Musk and Starlink Risks as Military Use Expands In the past year, U.S. news outlets have reported that Musk, who oversees the satellite internet provider, has developed a...
Colorado Could Lose US Space Command. Trump Is Expected to Move It to Alabama. Trump's original decision to place Space Command -- the combatant command tasked with military operations in space that was...
Federal Judge Dismisses High-Profile Cases of 2 Jordanian Men Accused of Breaching Quantico Gate U.S. attorneys for the Eastern District of Virginia filed a motion Oct. 3 to dismiss the misdemeanor charges against Hasan...
New Marine Sniper Rifle Reaches Full Operational Capability Ahead of Schedule The Marine Corps' Mk22 Advanced Sniper Rifle will eventually replace the M40A6 and Mk13 Mod 7 in the service's arsenal.
Coast Guard Establishes First Hawaii-Based JROTC Program Kalani High School officially activated its newly formed Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program, the first...
Coast Guard Set to Receive New Icebreaker by Year's End, Bolstering US Presence in Arctic The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic...