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.
AFSOC Surgical Team Wants Blood Warmers to Save Lives Downrange More efficient blood warmers are a solution the AFSOC teams hope they can soon procure for their makeshift trauma rooms.
Army Medic Charged with Raping, Killing Infant Daughter, Cops Say A 22-year-old man suspected of raping and using a cord to kill his 9-month-old daughter was arrested by police in Tennessee.
4 Airmen to Receive Bronze Star for Saving Lives in ISIS Fight The Air Force surgical team treated more than 750 patients in a combat zone during the summer of 2016.
Life-Saving Hospital Ship Returns from Hurricane Relief The hospital ship USNS Comfort has ended its relief effort in Puerto Rico for the victims of Hurricane Maria.
Army Capt. Rose Sandecki By helping fellow vets face Vietnam experiences, former nurse found peace with past.
Congress Asks Trump to Award Medal of Honor to Trailblazing Marine Vietnam War Veteran Nearly 50 lawmakers wrote a letter to President Trump last week urging him to award the Medal of Honor to a Marine veteran...
What's in Store for VA Disability Benefits with New Office of Management and Budget Chief? New OMB Director Russell Vought has contributed to two conservative playbooks that advocate for the revamping of veterans'...
Military Health System Beneficiaries Urged to Download Old Medical Records by April 1 With the transition to MHS Genesis, the Defense Department is decommissioning the Tricare Online Patient Portal.
Pentagon Creates Staff Termination List as DOGE Targets Military The Pentagon is sending Trump administration officials the names of probationary workers who could be targeted in an upcoming...
Over $151 Million Taken from Soldiers' Paychecks for Food Costs Spent Elsewhere by the Army The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops -- taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence payments, roughly $460 per month that is automatically deducted from the paychecks of service members