Money for 5.2% Troop Pay Raise, Enlisted Hardship Bonuses Included in Last-Minute Government Funding Bill Lawmakers have unveiled an agreement to provide the Pentagon with $825 billion for this fiscal year that eschews...
Army National Guard Temporarily Suspends Reenlistment Bonuses Due to Lack of Funding The sudden suspension is due to a miscalculation by National Guard planners who forecast the amount of funds needed and the...
Air Force Is Offering Up to $600,000 in New Bonuses to Keep Experienced Aviators on the Job The Air Force is dangling another round of hefty bonuses that could range anywhere from $45,000 to $600,000 as an incentive...
Army Should Focus More Recruiting Effort on TV Outreach Rather than Bonuses, New Study Says For an Army trying desperately to appeal to wired Gen Z to fill the ranks, television is still remarkably relevant.
Soldiers Unpaid: National Guard Hasn't Paid Out Thousands of Enlistment Bonuses The National Guard is behind paying at least 9,000 soldiers the bonuses they were promised for signing up, according to a...
Big Bonuses, Relaxed Policies, New Slogan: None of It Saved the Military from a Recruiting Crisis in 2023 Of the five Defense Department service branches, only two met their active-duty enlisted recruiting goals for fiscal 2023.
Army Temporarily Suspends Reenlistment Bonuses for Soldiers After Hitting High Retention Rates Soldiers will not be able to contract under the old selective retention bonus until it is reinstated, according to the...
Air Force Pilots Have One Month to Extend Contracts for Up to $50,000 Per Year in Bonuses The new bonus also comes as the Air Force, as a whole, struggles with its toughest recruiting environment in decades.
Naval Aviators Are Being Offered More Cash to Become Commanding Officers Big cash bonuses are not just for Navy recruits. The Navy is also offering more than $100,000 to naval aviators to stay in...
Air Force Provides Details on What Bonuses Will Be Reinstated, But Some Duty Station Moves Remain Paused The Air Force will restore the Selective Retention Bonuses and the Aviation Bonus program, as well as Assignment Incentive...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...