Agency Ponders Selective Draft
Although Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is dead-set against asking Congress for a draft, the Selective Service System nevertheless is looking …More
Armed Forces News
Enter your email to subscribe free!DoD Offers Rationale for Variable Pricing
Charles Abell, DoD deputy for personnel and readiness, has told the House Armed Services total force subcommittee that commissary customers …More
Navy Launches BAH Change
Married couples who are both in the Navy, both of whom are E-5 or below and on sea duty, are …More
Free Guide Helps Deployed Families
The National Fatherhood Initiative is offering a new, free guide designed to help service members maintain their role in their …More
Navy Exchanges Offer Gifts from the Homefront
As a way to say thank you to service members for serving their country, the Navy Exchange Service Command has …More
Army Offers AIP for Korea Extensions
On March 12, the Department of the Army began a new Assignment Incentive Pay program to encourage soldiers in or …More
Wounded Warrior Project Underway
The “Wounded Warrior” project (formerly Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association) seeks to assist service members who have been severely injured in …More
AF Launches Full-scale Sexual Assault Study
Allegations of sexual misconduct at the Air Force Academy and Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, have prompted the Air Staff …More
House Committee Faces SBP Choice
The House Budget Committee has an opportunity this week to jump-start a fix for the Survivor Benefit Plan?s ?military widows? …More
Reserve Tricare? Don?t Hold Your Breath
Congress has ordered a six-month test program beginning in July to offer Tricare coverage for reservists who are unemployed or …More
Navy: New Assignment Incentive Billets
The Navy expanded the Assignment Incentive Pay pilot program in March to include most enlisted shore billets in Guam, as …More
AF Portal Provides One-stop Personnel Service
Air Force senior leaders have asked all airmen to sign up for a new Web-based technology that promises to streamline …More
DoD Commissary Plan Faces Flak
Administration plans to merge the Army and Air Force Exchange Service with the Navy Exchange Service and the Marine Corps …More
TSP Phone Support Being Beefed Up
The new daily-valuated plan for Thrift Savings Plan investments as well as an increase in plan participants has strained the …More
Navy to Slash 50,000 Billets
Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Vern Clark, said last week he intends to reduce Navy strength from nearly 400,000 officers …More
Sheppard Sexual Allegation Report Issued
A 22-member special review team sent to Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, by Gen. Donald G. Cook, commander of Air …More
Air Force Rape Reports Spark Responses
A five-month-long Pacific Air Forces study has disclosed that at least 92 accusations of rape by PACAF members were made …More
Part B Late Enrollment Relief Still Stalled
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 authorizes some 90,000 Medicare-eligible military retirees not covered by Medicare …More
Red Cross Serving Returning Soldiers
Volunteers at the American Red Cross facility at Incirlik’s temporary terminal are providing hot beverages and baked goods to thousands …More
Five-year Sunset for Inadequate Military Housing
The proposed fiscal 2005 Defense Department budget “allows the department to stay on track to eliminate nearly all of its …More
