By Debbie Gregory. Earlier this month, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the Japan Ministry of Defense and sailors aboard the USS John Paul Jones successfully conducted a flight test, resulting in the first intercept of a ballistic missile target using the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA off the west coast of Hawaii. A medium-range […]
By Debbie Gregory. Some 16 million honorably discharged military veterans will soon be able to make purchases from online military exchanges, under a recently announced Department of Defense policy change. Slated to begin appropriately November 11, Veterans Day, the move is a way to improve the quality of life for veterans and their families, as […]
By Debbie Gregory. President Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries prompted Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to announce that the company would hire 10,000 refugees in the 75 countries where it does business, with the effort starting in the United States. The announcement prompted a backlash on social media with several people using […]
By Debbie Gregory. Firearms manufacturer Sig Sauer has won a contract to make the next service pistol based on the company’s P320 handgun. The U.S. Army has selected the SIG SAUER Model P320 to replace the M9 service pistol currently in use since the mid-1980’s. Released in 2014, the P320 is a polymer striker-fired pistol […]
By Debbie Gregory. In February, the primary tool to introduce the blended retirement system (BRS) to active and reserve component service members will be a two-hour online course that explains features and compares potential lifetime values with the legacy “High-3” retirement plan. They also will have access to a new online calculator to compare BRS […]
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. 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 […]
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