House Panel Rejects Pay Cap, Most TRICARE Hikes A House panel rejected the administration's call to cap the 2014 pay raise at one percent.
Retirees May Never See the Back Pay They're Due Due to a DFAS error, 55,000 'High-3' Retirees are due back Pay, but if DoD has its way they may never see it.
DoD: Slow Compensation or Watch Readiness Fall The Joint Chiefs say that Congress is being too protective of military compensation while defense spending is under siege.
2014 Military Pay Charts 2014 military pay has received a 1% increase over 2013's rates -- see pay and drill pay charts here.
Concurrent Receipt Expansion Efforts Falter Over the last two years, amid the debt crisis and federal budgets cuts through the 2011 Budget Control Act, support for...
Shutdown Stings Military Multiple Ways The shutdown is stinging military communities, and the hurt is enhanced by the tough budget choices forced by sequestration.
DoD’s Balk on Compensation Reform Irks Commission DoD's lack of ideas for pay and benefits reform upset the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission.
New Budget Cut Options Include Military Pay, Vets CBO options include rolling back compensation for categories of veterans and raising TRICARE fees for military retirees.
Promotion Rate Disparities Impact Total Career Pay Air Force enlisted members advance to pay grades E-5 through E-7 faster than before, but still slower than in other branches.
Gains in Military Pay and Benefits Stalled in 2013 2013 seemed to leave a high water mark on the wall of more than a decade of steady gains to pay and benefits.
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...
