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...
'The Army Gave a Hunting Permit to Radical Partisans': What a General's Bout with Fox Could Mean for Women The service has been rocked over a watchdog investigation that reportedly criticizes a senior officer for rebuking attacks on...
Pentagon Likely Rushed Denials of COVID-19 Vaccine Religious Exemption Requests, Watchdog Finds The watchdog said that military officials likely spent only minutes reviewing exemption requests, providing potential grounds...
Commissaries Claim Inflated Savings, Watchdog Finds The Defense Commissary Agency used unreliable and inconsistent methodologies to calculate the annual savings realized by...
Florida VA Denied Dying Veteran Emergency Care Because Staff Couldn't Confirm His Service The VA inspector general faulted staff at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville for having "wasted critical...
Service Members Not Getting Adequate Help for Alcohol Abuse, Watchdog Finds The findings come as the military tries to grapple with alcohol and substance abuse as it puts service members at a higher...
Troop Pay Safe After Congress Approves Extension of Government Funding Troop pay is no longer in jeopardy after Congress approved legislation to keep the government funded through mid-March and...
They Fought in Iraq’s Bloodiest Battle. Will Their Kids Be the Next Generation of Marines? No matter the profession, parents and children in both civilian and military families must navigate delicate decisions about...
14.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise, Restriction on Care for Transgender Military Kids Headed to Biden's Desk The 4.5% raise will be added to all service members' paychecks at the beginning of January, while the remaining 10% extra for...
Army Set to Debut Master Combat Badges in Spring, Memo Says The Army is set to begin awarding Master Combat Badges, which will combine expert and traditional combat badges, next spring...
Police Say Marine Charged with Escort's Murder Googled Whether It's Possible to Scream While Being Strangled In what a local official called a "chilling" case, an active-duty Marine stationed in Florida was arrested and charged with...
