The Pentagon’s Answer to Malaria, Lyme Disease Cases: ‘Bugapalooza’ The Defense Health Agency wants troops, family members and the public to know that vector-borne diseases are preventable.
Questions Remain as DoD Gets Ready to Cut 18,000 Medical Personnel Pentagon officials are keeping quiet on details surrounding a plan to cut 18,000 medical billets across the military.
Lawmakers Align on 3.1% Pay Raise, Efforts to Slow Cuts to Military Medical Billets The draft House defense authorization bill also contains health and child care provisions.
Lawmakers Seek to Slow DoD's Efforts to Slash Medical Billets, Outsource Moves The House Appropriations Committee passed the fiscal 2020 Defense Appropriations bill 30 to 22.
Navy Hospital Ship Comfort to Deploy to Aid Venezuelan Refugees The Navy hospital ship Comfort will deploy next month to the Caribbean and Central and South America to provide assistance.
Services Turn Focus to Warfighters as DHA Takes Over Military Hospitals In a budget hearing on Tuesday, the services' surgeons general addressed realignment of the medical forces.
Pentagon Budget Includes Plan to Reduce Military Medical Force "Roughly 15,000" military medical billets are slated to become civilian jobs.
More Than 17,000 Uniformed Medical Jobs Eyed for Elimination The reduction will allow those billets to be repurposed as war fighters or combat-support skills to increase lethality.
US Supreme Court Asks for Government Response in Feres Case Attorney says the justices' unique request signals interest in a military medical malpractice case.
Navy Offers What Venezuelan Regime Can't: Urgent Health Care So far, Operation Enduring Promise 2018 has treated about 20,000 patients in Latin American countries.
How Marines Took an Airfield in the Philippines in a Show Against China On April 30, three combined littoral reconnaissance teams made up of roughly 30 U.S. and Philippine Marines each, flown by...
Army Eliminates Online Training Requirement for Noncommissioned Officers, Saying It's Too Burdensome The Army has eliminated a significant part of its online training for enlisted troops -- a learning program that has drawn...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Air Force Pilot Who Died After Aircraft Ejection Seat Misfire Identified by the Service Capt. John Robertson, an instructor pilot from the 80th Operations Support Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, was injured...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...