By Debbie Gregory. The Trump administration, just three weeks in, seems to be an exercise in chaos. Michael T. Flynn has resigned his post as the national security adviser after it emerged that the Justice Department informed the White House that it believed Flynn could be subject to blackmail. The resignation also came after previous […]
By Debbie Gregory. The loss of highly trained and experienced pilots from the U.S. military to the private sector is a legitimate worry. And the U.S. Air Force says its deficit of fighter pilots is growing. At the end of fiscal year 2016, the Air Force was short 750 fighter pilots, up from 511 at […]
By Debbie Gregory. A policy change can now help disabled veterans start a family. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is now covering the costs of in vitro fertilization (IVF) until the fall of 2018. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though thousands of servicemembers suffered genitourinary, blast, spinal and brain injuries that […]
By Debbie Gregory. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James announced the new, jokingly referring to the new service as “a nerd cyber SWAT team.” The Air Force’s Defense Digital Service (DDS) will be a small team that will “help us build software excellence into new programs and troubleshoot existing programs that run into difficulties with […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Military Residency Choice Act, introduced by San Diego Congressmen Darrell Issa and Rob Wittman, will ease the tax burden on military families by allowing them to establish one consistent state of residency. Active duty service members have always been able to keep one state as their state of legal residency (usually […]
By Debbie Gregory. President Trump held a series of “White House listening sessions” with various groups and then met with veterans advocates the following day. But apparently when it came to discussing the ways his administration could reform the embattled Department of Veterans Affairs, he failed to invite officials from the American Legion, Disabled American […]
By Debbie Gregory. After 55 years of service, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, has been decommissioned. Known as “Big E,” the warship has played a role in major world events from the 1962 Cuban missile crisis to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The USS Enterprise has spent the past […]
By Debbie Gregory. A growing number of military reservists are learning that benefits they thought they were earning may not be there for them after all. Under legal authority 12304b, when the Pentagon determines that it is necessary to augment the active forces in support of a combatant command, it can call up reservists and […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Army has been steadily drawing down the force since 2012, decreasing its numbers from a war time high of 570,000 active Army soldiers. But following the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act in December, the Army is poised to increase its end-strength by 16,000 more soldiers than originally planned. What […]
By Debbie Gregory. Defense Secretary James Mattis has requested that President Trump exempt Iraqi nationals, who risked their lives to help American troops in wartime, from the executive order halting immigration from Iraq. Trump’s executive order, published Jan. 27, put an immediate temporary halt to immigration from seven countries, including Iraq. Mattis has the backing […]
