In early October 2012, I PCS’d with my wife and our 1-year-old daughter. There wasn’t a house ready for us, so by Halloween we were still living in temporary lodging, surrounded by whatever we had managed to keep with us during the move. We loved Halloween. But we didn’t know…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The leaders of Britain and the United States have suggested, without giving evidence, that Iran played a role in two major security incidents this week, the arrests near a U.S.-run military base in England used in the war against Tehran and the attack in the cockpit of…

Hours after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was shot to death inside his bedroom in the hills above Port-au-Prince, one of the Haitian Americans involved in the plot to oust him from power was desperate. “I’m in real danger, very bad,” James Solages, a Broward county handyman who had accompanied a…

The Department of Defense (DOD) has raised two forms of combat-related pay for service members for the first time in roughly a quarter-century, doubling the monthly rate for hostile fire pay and also increasing imminent danger pay. Hostile fire pay rose from $225 to $450 a month, and imminent danger…

Russia is preparing for the war in Ukraine to continue for years by planning record war spending, abandoning plans to rein in military outlays. The shift offers one of the clearest indications yet of how deeply embedded conflict has become in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s priorities, even as strain on…

Water is one of our most basic preparedness supplies. But there are situations where replacing water alone may not be enough. Heavy sweating, prolonged heat, vomiting, and diarrhea can cause the body to lose both water and electrolytes. If those losses become significant, having an electrolyte product on the shelf…

A Department of Veterans Affairs rating decision letter can run anywhere from three pages to more than 30, written in dense regulatory language and packed with legal citations. Most veterans open it, find the percentage, and stop reading. That’s a mistake. Several other sections of the letter determine how much…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood on stage this week in front of thousands of U.S. military personnel, quoting Bible scripture while attacking the “woke” and the “weirdos.” His religiosity is now extending to all service members, prompting a new battle involving the government, free speech, and the Constitution. The secretary…

For decades, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. has centered on an often-mentioned but rarely tested supposition: If the kingdom were attacked, America would come to its rescue. But recent events have shown that much-vaunted security umbrella to be a leaky one. Last month, Iran-aligned Yemeni rebels blitzed…

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