The Marine Corps Is Changing How It Promotes Sergeants and Staff Sergeants. Here's How Starting in January, corporals won't be able to pick up sergeant until they've been in the Marine Corps for four years.
Air Force Shakes Up Officer Promotion Categories The service on Monday announced the change will start in March 2020 for the next lieutenant colonel promotion board.
Army Considering Pass/Fail Option on ACFT for Sergeant Promotions The Army may do away with making sergeant promotions dependent on high Army Combat Fitness Test scores.
Navy OKs Automatic Promotion Program for Sailors Willing to Take Certain Jobs Sailors looking to speed up their path to petty officer first class now have some new options.
Air Force Reserve Changes to Provide More Enlisted Promotion Opportunities Beginning this month, the changes apply to all statuses within the enlisted Reserve force.
'Col. Ned Stark' Sounds Off on Air Force Promotion System Overhaul Col. Jason Lamb, took the stage before a packed audience of airmen with Lt. Gen. Brian Kelly.
Measures Would Award Promotions to Tuskegee Airman and Last Doolittle Raider House lawmakers have introduced legislative amendments to promote Richard "Dick" Cole and Charles McGee.
Air Force Surveys Officers on Major Changes to Promotion Process A proposed change would creating subgroupings for promotion, putting a greater emphasis on field-specific expertise.
Sailors Will No Longer Need 12 Years of Good Conduct to Sport Gold Stripes The Navy is rescinding its tradition requiring sailors to have 12 years of blemish-free conduct to rate gold stripes.
Army's New Promotion System Could Mean Separations for Some Soldiers The U.S. Army is launching a new merit-based promotion system for enlisted personnel will force out "subpar."
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...