2025 Guide to Pay and Allowances for Military Service Members, Veterans and Retirees A 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members and an average 5.4% increase in the Basic Allowance for Housing are...
2025 Military Pay Dates When will you get paid in the new year? Find out the 2025 military pay dates.
Your Military Pay Raise for 2025, Plus Veterans Pension and BAH Updates Under the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, troops in the ranks of E-1 through E-4 will see a 14.5% raise next...
Here Are the 89 Highly Skilled Air Force Jobs Eligible for Retention Bonuses in 2025 The 89 career fields on the list eligible for the bonus in fiscal 2025 are a notable increase from the 73 careers for fiscal...
2025 Partial BAH Rates Service members without dependents who live in government quarters receive BAH Partial.
2025 BAH Differential Rates Basic Allowance for Housing Differential is for members with special circumstances such as those who live in government...
2025 Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) Rates Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) pays for the cost of a military member's meals when dining at their permanent duty...
Biden Signs Defense Bill with Junior Enlisted Pay Hike, Ban on Treatments for Transgender Military Kids A massive raise for junior enlisted troops next year and a ban on some health care for transgender children of service...
2025 Military CONUS COLA Rates The Department of Defense has announced the 2025 Continental United States (CONUS) Cost-of-Living Allowance (COLA) rates.
Troop Pay Safe After Congress Approves Extension of Government Funding Troop pay is no longer in jeopardy after Congress approved legislation to keep the government funded through mid-March and...
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...