Your Military Pay Raise for 2025, Plus Veterans Pension and BAH Updates Under the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, troops in the ranks of E-1 through E-4 will see a 14.5% raise next...
Tricare West Region Beneficiaries Urged to Change Payment Information Before Jan. 1 The contract transfer to TriWest Healthcare Alliance requires beneficiaries to update their recurring payment information for...
Defense Bill Mandates Changes to Weapons, Other Steps to Protect Troops' Brain Health Members of Congress in both parties have been increasingly concerned about traumatic brain injuries, or TBI, among service...
Here Are Your BAH Rates for 2025 The 2025 BAH rates (or Basic Allowance for Housing) are designed to meet current housing costs.
No More Copays: Defense Bill Set to Sign Off on Free Birth Control for Military Families Free birth control will be available to all Tricare users after more than a decade of efforts to eliminate copays for...
Army Cuts Popular Education Benefit in Half, Bars Officers as Costs Soar The Army is dramatically scaling back one of its most generous education benefits, the Credentialing Assistance program known...
Defense Bill with Massive Junior Enlisted Raise, Restriction on Health Care for Trans Military Kids Passes House Despite anger from Democratic lawmakers at language that would restrict health care for transgender children of service...
Navy Overhaul of Exceptional Family Member Program Raises Concerns over Ditching Categories Months after sending a letter to families forecasting the change, the Navy has formally announced the revamp of its...
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...
Military Suicides Rose in 2023, Continuing Upward Trend Pentagon Sees as 'Real Change' Defense Department Suicide Prevention Office staff said the DoD is making unprecedented investments in suicide prevention in...
Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting...
Commander of Air Force Weather Wing Fired After Legal Troubles Earlier This Year Col. Joseph Coughlin, commander of the 557th Weather Wing at Offutt, was removed from his position Tuesday "due to a loss of...
Top US General Argues Against Giving Up Command of NATO at Senate Hearing Giving up American military leadership of the NATO alliance would be "problematic," Gen. Christopher Cavoli told senators...
Capitol Hill Wants $15 Billion for Weapons Pentagon Didn’t Seek: Report The spending directions from Congress are included in tables that Republican Defense appropriators sent the department last...
'Psychological Warfare': Veterans Fired from Federal Government Speak Out at Informal Hearing Air Force veteran Shernice Mundell was testifying at a "shadow hearing" organized by Senate Veteran Affairs Committee ranking...