2025 Mileage Rates for Official Travel Here are the latest PCS and TDY/TAD privately owned vehicle mileage reimbursement rates.
Marine Corps Unveils New List of Bonuses Aimed at Keeping Crucial Jobs Filled The service is offering "primary military occupational specialty," or PMOS, bonuses that -- if including a kicker -- can...
Army to Soldiers: Reenlist by Monday if You Want to Claim Incentives While it is not unusual for the Army to curtail incentives after meeting its retention goals, the troops were given little...
2025 Dislocation Allowance Rates The purpose of the Dislocation Allowance is to partially reimburse a service member for expenses related to a PCS move.
Troops Booted over COVID-19 Vaccine Are Being Offered Back Pay But Not Huge Payouts The Pentagon, acting on orders from President Donald Trump, has begun to lay out the details of its plan to woo back...
House Republican Pushing for Tax Exemption for Military Bonuses to Be Included in Trump Agenda Bill Bonuses for enlisting and reenlisting in the military would be tax exempt under a bill introduced in the House.
Government Shutdown Averted, Money for Junior Enlisted Pay Raise Secured After Senate Passes Funding Bill Troop pay will be protected and money to cover an upcoming pay raise for junior enlisted service members will be secure after...
What a Government Shutdown Looks Like for the Military and Veterans A federal government shutdown can have a direct impact on U.S. service members and military families.
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...
GOP Plan to Avert Government Shutdown Would Fund Next Month's Junior Enlisted Pay Raise A House Republican plan to keep the federal government open past Friday by putting most agencies' funding on autopilot...
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...
![Congress Afghanistan Withdrawl](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/ApNewsroom_Congress_Afghanistan_Withdrawl_51418.jpg?itok=vZt2qFbk "Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., speaks during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing "An Assessment of the State Departments Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Americas Top Diplomat," on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)")
