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...
VA's Automated Benefits System Made Errors in 27% of High Blood Pressure Claims, Watchdog Report Says VA officials said the system was still in its infancy and the technology is evolving.
Bedbugs, Brown Water, Squatters: Military Barracks Blasted over Horrid Living Conditions, Lack of Accountability The Government Accountability Office published the conditions in a scathing new report, confirming complaints made by many...
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...
Russian Fronts, Criminal Gangs: US Couldn't Account for Weapons Sent to Ukraine Last Year The schemes were disrupted by Ukraine's security service, but they also show the dangers and potential pitfalls of the $23...
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...
Missteps by Staff at the St. Louis VA Faulted in Veteran's In-Hospital Suicide An investigation into the 2021 death of Kenneth Hagans found that nurses failed to check on him for more than two hours.
Ukraine Aid Such as Howitzers, Night Vision Goggles Not Properly Tracked by Military DoD "personnel did not have the required accountability of the thousands of defense items that they received and transferred...
Pentagon Isn't Tracking Whether Privatized Housing Is Sickening Families, Watchdog Finds An internal Pentagon inspector general report released Dec. 9 estimated that less than .03% of the department's 211,826...
Pentagon Getting First Senate-Confirmed Watchdog in 7 Years The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Robert Storch, the current inspector general at the National Security Agency, to become the...
Army ROTC Programs at Dozens of Campuses Are Being Shut Down or Reorganized The Army is undertaking a major shake-up of its Reserve Officers' Training Corps footprint, shutting down or reorganizing...
Afghan Ally Who Was Detained by ICE Now Facing Fast-Tracked Deportation Sayed Naser Noori, whose legal team has provided reporters with paperwork confirming he worked with the military as an...
New Army Shaving Policy Will Allow Soldiers with Skin Condition that Affects Mostly Black Men to Be Kicked Out The Army is preparing to roll out a new policy that could lead to soldiers diagnosed with a chronic skin condition that...
After Offer of Back Pay, Only 13 COVID Vaccine Refusers Returned to Military Service Months after the Pentagon rolled out a policy aimed at wooing back service members booted from the military over the COVID-19...
LA Army Veteran with Purple Heart Self-Deports to South Korea Under Threat of Deportation An Army veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart self-deported to South Korea as he was threatened with being detained and...