Better Housing and Shipyard Perks Part of Raft of Quality of Life-Focused Requests in Navy Budget The sea service is not only requesting the money to build three parking garages and two new recreational facilities at its...
VA Asks for Historic $4.1 Billion for Construction as Agency Weighs Closing Some Aging Medical Facilities After the Senate scuttled the department's recommendations on medical facility upgrades and closures, the VA launched a new...
125% Increase to Space Force Bonuses Part of 2024 Budget Request that Would Grow Ranks The Space Force wants to grow the number of Guardians by nearly 10% and hopes to offer almost $5 million in new bonuses to...
Battle Lines Drawn in Congressional Debate over Cutting -- or Increasing -- $842 Billion Pentagon Budget Failure to come to an agreement on funding the Pentagon and the rest of the federal government could mean a government...
Biggest Military Pay Raise in Decades Proposed by White House The proposal for a 5.2% bump in basic military pay is part of the administration's overall request for $842 billion in...
Pentagon Funding in Question After House Fight over Speakership One of the promises Kevin McCarthy made to win over his critics was to trim overall government spending to the dollar figure...
Biden Signs Defense Bill with Vaccine Mandate Repeal, 4.6% Military Pay Raise The sweeping defense policy bill that repeals the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate and endorses a 4.6% pay raise for...
Billions Set Aside to Improve Military Housing in Government Spending Package Headed to Biden's Desk Mold, which is known to cause several health issues including breathing problems and skin infections, has been plaguing...
VA to Get 22% Budget Boost for Medical Care In Government Spending Deal Lawmakers are set to approve $118.7 billion for veterans medical care for 2023, which is $21.7 billion more than was approved...
Largest Military Pay Raise In 20 Years Headed to Biden's Desk As Part of Defense Bill This year's National Defense Authorization, or NDAA, endorses a basic pay raise for 2023 of 4.6%, far higher than 2022's 2.7%...
Tennessee Man Shot Dead After Flipping Middle Finger at War Memorial Albert Sturgill Jr., 63, was confronted by a group while gesturing at the flag and monuments at Cumberland County Veterans...
Chicago Braces for Potential National Guard Deployment Amid Trump Threats Illinois politicians are sounding an alarm and bracing for possible National Guard deployments to Chicago amid President...
9/11 Air Defense Stories You Might Not Know As hijacked planes turned into weapons on September 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York...
Is Trump's Troop Buildup in US Cities a Declaration of War — or Something Else? As President Donald Trump goads Democratic-led cities, Americans are grappling with a fundamental question of American...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...