Guard, Reserve Members Up to 20% Less Likely to Get VA Disability Applications Approved, Watchdog Finds The Government Accountability Office has found that even eligible reserve component members face challenges getting VA...
New Army Program Helps Some Reserve Soldiers Find Child Care Army officials said Thursday they had entered into a contract with child care locator service WeeCare Company.
Army Reserve Fixes Tuition Benefits Breakdown Just Before Students Enter Fall Semester The Army Reserve has seemingly fixed its scholarship program after the service component ran out of money to cover education...
Army Reserve Education Benefits Collapse Halts Fall Semester Enrollments The Reserve allocated $20 million for tuition assistance this year, but it lowballed demand for college money and ended up...
Back at Work? Tips for Guardsmen and Reservists If you are a reservist or in the National Guard and returning home from deployment, you may already know that the transition...
Army National Guard Halts Payments for Soldier Student Loans After Funding Snafu The issue is isolated within the Student Loan Repayment Program, or SLRP -- one of the key incentives for joining the part...
Guardsmen, Reservists Would Get Expanded Parental Leave Under Senate Bill On the heels of Congress securing a win for active-duty military parents by expanding their parental leave, a pair of...
Next Step for Incentive Pay Boost for Guardsmen and Reservists Coming in 'Weeks,' Defense Official Vows At issue are 18 categories of incentive pay used to attract recruits or retain service members with specific skills or...
Veterans Groups Press for Long-Shot Expansion of GI Bill Eligibility for Guard and Reserves At issue is the fact that many National Guard deployments don't allow troops to accrue GI Bill benefits.
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
'It's OK Not to Be OK': Special Operations Wing Orders Stand-Down After Roger Fortson's Police Killing The Air Force special operations wing in Florida where Senior Airman Roger Fortson served before he was shot and killed by...
VA Says It Can't Change New Urn, Plaque Benefit that Precludes Future Burials in National Veteran Cemeteries Both the National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs and the National Funeral Directors Association lodged...
'Unspeakably Cruel': Army Ranger Sentenced for Murdering Security Guard in Washington State A U.S. Army Ranger formerly stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for beating a...