Most people assume the World War II draft began the day after Pearl Harbor. It didn’t. The United States started conscripting men more than a year before it entered the war, and the rules that governed who got called up changed dramatically once it did. Whether you’d have gone depends…
A Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II crashed Friday morning at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, sending black smoke above the base and igniting a brush fire near the flight line. The pilot ejected before impact and reached a local hospital in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. The…
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One of the most consistently underused benefits available to service members and their families is also one of the simplest to access: free, confidential, nonmedical counseling through Military OneSource, up to 12 sessions per issue, with no referral, no diagnosis and no reporting back to anyone’s chain of command. What…
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The Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System, DEERS, is the database that quietly underpins nearly every benefit a military family uses day to day: Tricare coverage, commissary and exchange access, base facility access, and the ID card that gets checked at every gate. It’s also one of the easiest things to…
House and Senate appropriators backed the White House’s shipbuilding goals with an additional $6.5 billion in funding for fiscal year 2026—including adjustments to fix accounting errors resulting from last year’s budget reconciliation. The compromise bill, released last week, allots a total $27.2 billion for shipbuilding, with increases across several efforts. That $27.2…
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday urged Senate Democrats to advance the government funding package that must become law before the weekend to avoid a partial shutdown, rejecting their proposal to remove the Homeland Security funding bill.Democrats in the upper chamber say they are ready to help pass…
Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly’s lawyers on Monday urged a federal judge to block the Defense Department from downgrading his retirement rank as a Navy captain and his pay for telling U.S. troops they aren’t required to follow illegal orders. Paul J. Fishman wrote in a 35-page filing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s…
In Canada, a proposed policy change could remake recreational fishermen’s abilities to target salmon in British Columbia. The country’s fisheries management agency, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (referred to as “DFO”), is reviewing a salmon-allocation policy that’s been in place since 1999, and up for consideration are two changes that could…
Police say the suspect unlawfully entered a private industry event before allegedly assaulting Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost and a second attendee.A man was arrested early Friday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, after allegedly assaulting Florida Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost during a private industry event, according to…
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Roughly 48 hours after the fatal shooting of a Department of Veterans Affairs nurse by U.S. Border Patrol sparked larger protests across Minnesota, lawmakers, pundits and Americans of various political persuasion are commenting on whether current immigration policies are being facilitated as intended or if they have gone overboard.Details continue…
Whether your military career lasted four or 44 years, whether you served stateside or did multiple deployments, whether you wore the uniform or you’re married to a veteran, the idea of work-life balance is certainly appealing.Over the 16 years I’ve worked in the military transition space, service members and military…
