Culture War Political Fights Resurface as House Approves 19.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise and Senate Eyes 5.5% For the second year in a row, the House approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, mostly along...
5.5% vs. 19.5% Pay Raise: Senate Diverges from House on How Much to Boost Junior Enlisted Paychecks The House and Senate will need to negotiate a compromise version of their respective bills before this year's NDAA can become...
Bill to Compensate Radiation Fallout Victims of Atom Bomb Tests Allowed to Expire Citing concerns that the bill would be too costly, House Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the House without allowing a vote on...
Ban on Base Slot Machines Among Proposals Floated for Annual Must-Pass Defense Bill Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., has filed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, that would prohibit the...
Money for 19.5% Pay Hike for Junior Enlisted Troops Included in House's Defense Spending Bill Funding to support a 19.5% pay raise for junior enlisted troops is included in the House's initial version of the annual...
No Retirement Required: How JROTC Aims to Combat an Instructor Shortage The program has hundreds of vacancies, but Congress has set a new policy reducing the number of years of service needed by...
White House Threatens to Veto VA, Military Construction Spending Bill over GOP Policies The White House is threatening to veto the annual Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction funding bill over...
Air Force's Controversial Plan to Transfer National Guard Units to Space Force Gets Gutted by House The amendment to the House Armed Services Committee's National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, would also make...
Airmen, Space Force Guardians Could Grow Beards Under Pilot Program Proposed by House The legislation would also order the services to analyze "the effect of beard growth on discipline, morale and unity within...
After Failing to Overturn VA Abortion, LGBTQ+ Policies, House Republicans Try Again with Must-Pass Bill Kicking off the fiscal 2025 appropriations process with controversial policy riders sets the stage for a replay of the...
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...
