Most Base Pharmacies Now Accepting Electronic Prescriptions A new Tricare pharmacy program allows doctors outside on-base clinics and treatment centers to send prescriptions...
Specialty Docs May Draw More Families to Military Hospitals: Officials Military treatment facilities can do a better job of convincing military family members to use them instead of civilian...
Cut Tricare Rather than Military Housing Allowance: Defense Analyst Spending reforms should increase retention by cutting back benefits that serving troops don't highly value, one expert says.
Tricare Changes Coming to Those Who Join After Next Year Future retirees who join the military in 2018 or thereafter will pay higher fees for all Tricare plans.
DoD May Close Tricare Customer Service Centers DoD may close Tricare service centers as part of a cost-saving move that would affect hundreds of thousands of troops.
House Panel Moves to Block Cuts to Troop Benefits A House subcommittee offered legislation to reject proposed cuts to benefits including housing allowances and Tricare.
Pentagon 2016 Budget Includes Pay Raise, More BAH Cuts, Tricare Merger The DoD's proposed budget calls for a modest pay raise but more cuts to housing allowances, while consolidating Tricare...
Lawmakers Agree to Boost Tricare Pharmacy Co-Pays in 2016 Defense Bill Lawmakers agreed to increase pharmacy co-pays that largely affect military retirees.
Budget Proposal Includes Major Retiree Tricare Fee Hikes The new Defense Department budget proposal for 2017 sent today to Congress drastically increases the cost of healthcare for...
Tricare May Boost Allowance for Urgent Care Visits Without Referrals DoD's Tricare program may increase the number of urgent care visits some beneficiaries can access without a referral.
Caregivers Sue VA over Denial of Benefits Survivors of veterans who died from service-connected conditions have filed a class action seeking changes to a VA practice...
Marine Corps Ranks: A Complete Guide to Enlisted and Officer Ranks Explore U.S. Marine Corps ranks from private to general. Learn rank structure, pay grades, insignia and promotion paths in...
Homeowners Say the Army Corps and its Contractors Mishandled LA Fire Debris Cleanup More than 800 complaints were submitted to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hotline dedicated to the agency's debris removal...
Japan Marks End of World War II as Survivors Remember Wartime Emperor's Surrender Speech 80 Years Ago A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded...
Flights Restricted over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit North American Aerospace Defense Command issued a statement saying it would be enforcing Federal Aviation Administration...
