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Staff sergeant promotion rate hits lowest point since 1996

The Air Force chose 17.4% of eligible senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant, down from last year’s selection rate of 21.1%.

2023 Best For Vets: Employers

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2023 Best For Vets: Colleges

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Military services can’t agree on where service members’ waists are

No two services can agree on where to measure a service member’s waist when deploying the hated, but hard-to-eliminate tape test.

Opinion

Honoring our ‘PACT’ to veterans

This week marks one year since the PACT Act, legislation expanding health and disability benefits for veterans, was signed into law.

Pentagon watchdog investigating Army harassment response after audit

After an internal audit criticized poor follow-through on related research, the Pentagon's watchdog will scrutinize Army harassment prevention.

Opinion

Readers react to ‘Fortress America’ op-ed calling for more open bases

Many readers responded, pro and con, to the opinion piece “Time to move past ‘Fortress America’ with US military bases."

How Adm. Paparo will lead the US military in the Indo-Pacific

While the Pentagon suggested Paparo as the Navy's next chief of operations, tapping him for combatant command will keep his skill sets in the West Pacific.

Recruiters skipped steps to screen out extremist enlistees, IG says

The watchdog found that recruiters completed the screening steps inconsistently, sometimes skipping required tattoo reviews and fingerprint checks.

Veterans see historic expansion of benefits for toxic exposure

The first anniversary of the PACT Act, sweeping toxic exposure legislation expanding health and disability benefits for veterans, is Thursday.