House Passes Defense Bill That Includes Military Pay Raise and Scraps the Vaccine Mandate The bill provides for about $45 billion more for defense programs than President Joe Biden requested, the second consecutive...
Fight over Allowing Part-Time Guardians or Creating a Space Force Guard Punted Congress is asking for the Space Force to research the idea of allowing Guardians to serve part-time on active duty in the...
Military Justice Reforms at Finish Line After Decade-Long Fight Changes to the military justice system intended to combat sexual assault that got cut from last year's defense policy bill...
Group of GOP Senators Demand a Vote to End Vaccine Mandate, or They'll Try to Block Defense Bill The letter was signed by 13 Republican senators, but Sen. Rand Paul said about 20 senators have committed to supporting the...
Senate Trying to Block Military Transfers Based on Potentially Discriminatory State Laws The military would be barred from considering state laws in deciding where to station service members under an amendment...
House Approves Higher Inflation Bonuses as Sweeping Defense Bill Advances The Pentagon would have the ability to give low-paid service members inflation bonuses as high as economic conditions warrant...
Pay Bumps to Counter Suicides in Alaska and on Ships in Yard 'Unnecessary,' According to White House The proposals for Arctic pay and complex overhaul pay were spurred by waves of suicides among service members in Alaska and...
Requirement for Women to Register for the Draft Back on the Table in Annual Defense Bill The proposal is back in the version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, making its way through the Senate.
Army's New Fitness Test Might Change Again as Congress Looks to Switch Standards An amendment in the NDAA would direct the Army to establish fitness standards for troops in combat roles that would be higher...
Sweeping Military Justice Reforms Get New Life in Annual Defense Bill Changes to the military justice system that got cut from last year's defense policy bill have been revived in the version of...
Renewed Military ID Cards Can Be Sent by Mail in New Pilot Program Active-duty troops can now log in to renew their family members' military ID cards in a pilot program allowing the IDs to be...
How the War in Iraq Changed the Military for Women Some 2,200 active-duty women out of roughly 40,000 are serving in infantry, cavalry, armor and field artillery roles.
VA Hospital Employee Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison for Accepting Thousands of Dollars in Kickbacks A former manager at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center was sentenced to six months in federal prison for...
Guardsman Dies After Fitness Test A junior enlisted National Guard soldier died earlier this month after a physical fitness test during a drill weekend...
The First Casualty of War Is Truth: Iraq 20 Years Later Four months prior to the invasion of Iraq, I found out that the George W. Bush administration was selling the war to the...
