Back Pay Floated for Officers Whose Promotions Were Delayed by Tuberville While Handful Still Await Confirmation The bill comes as a couple of dozen officers are still waiting to be promoted despite the Senate clearing 425 nominees from...
Hundreds of Military Promotions Approved by Senate Just Hours After Tuberville Releases His Hold Tuberville announced he was dropping his procedural hold on military confirmations on all but those nominated to be four-star...
Navy Modifies 'Up or Out' Policy by Giving Sailors Who Don't Advance an Option to Fill Critical Jobs The blunting of the sometimes controversial high-year tenure rules is yet another policy change the Navy has taken that aims...
Democratic Plan to End Senate Blockade of Military Promotions Takes Critical Step Forward The Senate Rules Committee voted along party lines to advance the "standing order resolution" to circumvent Tuberville's hold...
Tuberville Hold on Military Promotions Faces Biggest Challenge as Democrats Rally to Change Senate Rules Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced that the Senate Rules Committee that she chairs will vote Nov. 14 on a resolution "to allow the...
As Commandant Recovers from Cardiac Arrest, There's Now a 4-Star Officer in the Top Marine Seat Again The Marine Corps on Friday said that Gen. Eric Smith was making “excellent progress following sudden cardiac arrest earlier...
Senate Finally Confirms 3 Top Military Officers After Fellow Republicans Erupt in Anger over Tuberville Blockade Chiefs of the Navy and Air Force, as well as the second-in-command at the Marine Corps, were confirmed by the Senate after a...
Marine Commandant's Health Crisis Spurs Senate to Set Up Votes on 3 Top Officers The Senate will vote on the nominees for the No. 2 general in the Marine Corps and the chiefs of the Air Force and Navy...
Two Former Senate Leaders Criticize Tuberville's Military Holds Trent Lott, a former Republican Senator from Mississippi, and Tom Daschle, the former Democratic Senator from South Dakota...
Leaders of Army, Marine Corps, Joint Chiefs Confirmed by Senate Amid Monthslong Blockade by Tuberville A Senate procedural maneuver by Tuberville this week forced Democrats to retreat from their earlier position -- that...
Biggest Military Pay Raise in 2 Decades Finalized in Newly Released Defense Bill Service members will get a 5.2% pay raise come January under the compromise annual defense bill unveiled Wednesday night.
Army Veteran Battling Terminal Cancer Gets His Wish to Shoot a Tank One Last Time In early 2022, Jay Tenison was diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer after reporting pain to his doctors. After months of...
Congress Tells Army to Set Higher Fitness Standards for Combat Arms Soldiers Congress is set to direct the Army to boost fitness standards for most combat-arms jobs through a compromise defense policy...
American Forces Must Strike Iran to Protect US Troops "The disproportionate scale of Iranian attacks to American responses lays bare that Iran, not the U.S., holds deterrence in...
US Military Grounds Entire Fleet of Osprey Aircraft Following a Deadly Crash off the Coast of Japan The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps took the extraordinary step of grounding hundreds of aircraft after a preliminary...
