House Panel Approves Expansion of GI Bill Eligibility After Sparring over COVID Vaccine The House Veterans Affairs Committee advanced the bill along largely party lines after lawmakers sparred over the military's...
Army Cuts Off More Than 60K Unvaccinated Guard and Reserve Soldiers from Pay and Benefits Some 40,000 National Guard and 22,000 Reserve soldiers who refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are no longer allowed to...
What Does the Guard Do with 40,000 Unvaccinated Soldiers? No One Knows The numbers pose a daunting challenge to the Pentagon, which mandated vaccination against COVID-19, as it does to counter...
Inflation Bonuses for Troops Make it into Sweeping Defense Bill Bonuses to help low-paid service members cope with rising consumer prices are a step closer to reality.
America Needs Vets to Serve Again, This Time as Volunteer Poll Workers The COVID-19 pandemic sharply cut the number of volunteers from the traditional 60-and-older cohort.
The Long and Uncertain Path Ahead for Veterans Waging War Against Lingering COVID The Department of Veterans Affairs believes more than a half million veterans have had COVID-19, and about 23,000 veterans...
Number of Soldiers Booted for Vaccine Refusal Doubled from Last Month The service has now discharged at least 742 active-duty soldiers for refusal, it said. On April 20, the total was 345.
Over Half of VA Health Employees Report Not Feeling Supported During Pandemic The report also found that less than half of clinical and nonclinical VHA staff were even aware of the agency's emotional...
Military Throwing Cash at Recruiting Crisis as Troops Head for the Exits For now, the services are leaning on record-level enlistment and retention bonuses meant to attract and keep America's...
Lack of Urgency, Poor Organization Crippled Response to Fatal Outbreak in Veterans Home, Audit Finds A COVID-19 outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans Home in northern Illinois in November 2020 claimed 36 lives.
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...
