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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...
Your Year-End Financial Action Plan, Part 3: Tackling Debt While you may not be able to dig all the way out of debt in 2024, you can clearly chart a path that will allow you to get...
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.
Should You Borrow from Your TSP Account? Financial experts don’t recommend taking out loans against retirement accounts such as the military’s Thrift Savings Plan...
Navigating Winter Unemployment: A Veteran's Guide to Staying Productive, Positive and Eminently Employable
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...
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care. U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law...
101st Airborne Division Troops Return to Bastogne to Mark 80th Anniversary of Battle of the Bulge The siege of Bastogne was lifted on Dec. 26, 1944, when a tank column from the 4th Armored Division of then-Lt. Gen. George...
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...
1 Dead, Suspect Arrested After ‘Active Shooter’ Situation at Georgia Army Base The victim, whose identity has not been released, was shot “in on-post housing” at Fort Eisenhower.
Army Secretary Fires 4-Star General Who Meddled in Promotion of Unfit Subordinate Army Secretary Christine Wormuth -- in a dramatic and rare move -- on Tuesday fired one of the service's top generals...
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...
Historic Fort Leavenworth Homes Deteriorated for Years. Now There’s a Plan to Revive (Most of) Them As part of what is known as its long-term "out year development plan," the private, for-profit Michaels Organization has...
Bell Textron Chooses Fort Worth for Major Expansion to Build V-280 Valor Military Aircraft Bell Textron Inc., already one the largest employers in the Metroplex, has chosen its hometown of Fort Worth to build...
Tom Cruise Honored by US Navy for His Role in 'Top Gun' Cruise was presented with the Distinguished Public Service Award, which rewards civilians for acts of heroism or support to...
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...
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...
After a Yearslong Delay, Air Force Agrees to Send More Refueling Planes to Alaska Four additional KC-135 Stratotankers, the lynchpins of the U.S. military's aerial refueling operations, have been assigned to...
Army and Navy Team Up for Hypersonic Missile Launch from Cape Canaveral Cape Canaveral Space Force Station had a different kind of launch on its plate Thursday when the Army and Navy teamed up to...
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...
Japan Vows to Reduce Okinawa's Burden from Bases as US Marines' Transition to Guam Gets Underway The Japanese government aims to reduce the burden of hosting U.S. military bases on Okinawa Prefecture while maintaining the...
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...