Inside the Pentagon's Painfully Slow Effort to Clean Up Decades of PFAS Contamination Oscoda, Michigan, has the distinction as the first community where “forever chemicals” were found seeping from a military...
'Forever Chemicals' in Thousands of Private Wells Near Military Sites, Study Finds Water tests show nearly 3,000 private wells located near 63 active and former U.S. military bases are contaminated with...
Military Barracks Are Falling Apart. Senators in Big Military States Want to Know the Price Tag to Fix Them. A bipartisan group of senators representing states with significant military footprints is pressing the Pentagon for an...
Closing a Chapter of History, Last Army Base Ditches Confederate Namesake Following Years-Long Effort The Army on Friday redesignated the last of nine installations that had been named after Civil War-era Confederates...
Got Complaints About the Barracks or Dining Hall? Now There's an App for That Amid widespread criticism and complaints about military barracks, cafeterias and dorms, one former Army reservist is hoping...
Army Plans Boost in Barracks Spending as Military Grapples with Squalid Living Conditions The Army is crafting a new plan to improve barracks following mold and health issues, as well as a damning report from a...
Too Heavy to Fight? How the Army Is Combating the Obesity Crisis to Find Recruits Pvt. David Dean weighed 320 lbs. when he went to visit a National Guard recruiter. A West Virginia plumber by trade, he...
After Hurricane Idalia, Military Bases Return to Normal and National Guard Gets to Work Military installations in Florida and up the Atlantic Coast are starting to return to normal after Hurricane Idalia tore...
Army Scrubs Fort A.P. Hill, Renaming Base in Honor of Female Medal of Honor Recipient The move comes after seven other installations have been scrubbed of their namesakes honoring Confederate figures who seceded...
The Shame of Liberty: How the Lazy, Safe Renaming of Fort Bragg Wasted an Opportunity The renaming of Fort Bragg, mandated by Congress and formalized in a ceremony in June, was an opportunity to remind not only...
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Fired After 6 Months: Army Sacks Commander of Germany Unit Meant to Bolster NATO Against Russia Lt. Col. Eric Ackles, commander of 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was relieved of command, the service...
Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits Rolled out with great fanfare in November 2022, toxic exposure screenings for all VA patients were mandated by the PACT Act...
Feds Settle Case for $2 Million After Skydiving Plane Took Out Marine Corps Osprey on Runway Nearly four years after a civilian skydiving aircraft collided with a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey sitting on a San Diego runway...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...