Watchdog Warns Recruits Are Not Being Properly Vetted for Extremism Ties Some military recruiters are skipping a screening process meant to flag whether applicants looking to enlist have...
Defense Secretary Releases Plan to Keep Top Jobs Filled Amid Senate Blockade of Promotions In a memo dated Aug. 2, Austin recommended several ways to "mitigate the harms caused by the hold" that Sen. Tommy Tuberville...
Veteran Advocates Sue over 'Discriminatory' Fertility Treatment Policies at DoD, VA Legal services groups, representing service members and veterans, say the government policies discriminate against unmarried...
Pentagon Keeps Troops in Niger Despite Putsch, Maintains Contact with Some Military Leaders The Pentagon said Tuesday it has suspended security cooperation with Niger due to the political unrest in the West African...
Showdown Looming: Senate Takes Moderate Route, House Pushes Culture Wars in Annual Defense Bill The two chambers will now have to find common ground on the starkly different versions of the National Defense Authorization...
Pentagon COVID-19 Case Registry Is Riddled with Errors, Watchdog Finds A registry that was intended to help health care providers track patients and steer patient care is missing more than 7,000...
Base Air Show Featuring Scantily Clad Models Raises Questions About Justification for Drag Show Ban Instagram was flooded with pictures and videos of the models alongside sports cars, on the runway posing in front of cargo...
Pentagon Defends Abortion Policy Ahead of Senate Fight over Defense Bill Republicans are pushing for a vote on an amendment from Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, that would reverse the Pentagon's abortion...
GOP Uses Must-Pass Defense Bill to Thwack at Abortion, Transgender Troops as Legislation Passes House The traditionally bipartisan bill became a battleground for culture war issues this year after far-right lawmakers threatened...
Plan to Slash Military Medical Billets Based on Faulty Analysis, Federal Watchdog Says A 2019 proposal to trim 10,739 medical personnel from the ranks failed to use the criteria it developed to assess wartime...
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...
The Best Amazon Black Friday Week 2024 Deals for Service Members, Veterans and Their Families America’s favorite shopping holiday isn’t just a single day, or even a weekend, anymore. Here’s how U.S. service members...
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...
GOP Senator Stalls Promotion of General Who Became Symbol of Afghanistan Withdrawal Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue, who has been nominated to receive a fourth star and take command of U.S. Army forces in Europe...
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...