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New Report Recommends Boosting Midcareer Incentives

A RAND Corp. report published earlier this month argues that the Army needs to pay some officers a larger midcareer incentive under the new Blended Retirement System, according to Stars and Stripes . The added incentives would be needed to retain the... Read More Details

Army Secretary Shares Equipment Wish List

Long-range precision fires, attack and reconnaissance aircraft and air defense add to the Army Secretary’s weapons wish list for future fights against peer adversaries. Secretary Mark Esper discussed how upcoming weapons and technology can help U.S... Read More Details

VA Suicide Report: Veterans, Service Members Die Each Day

The Department of Veterans Affairs has backed off a bit from its annual suicide report released last week. In it, the agency noted that its previous reports, which showed 20 or more suicides among veterans each day, included actively serving service... Read More Details

Step Kids

Guard children face many of the same challenges as their active-duty counterparts, yet they're not deemed full members of the military family Read More Details

Bill Would Expand Fry Scholarship to Guard

New legislation aims to extend eligibility for the Fry Scholarship to spouses and children of fallen Guardsmen and Reservists who died of service-connected causes that take place outside of active duty. The Fry Scholarship Improvement Act of 2019 (H... Read More Details

Congress Continues Budget Work

House leaders have set their proposed spending levels for the fiscal 2020 budget. The chair of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., sent the numbers to her subcommittees this week, according to POLITICO . They include $622... Read More Details

Lawmakers Push Burn Pit Legislation

Lawmakers and supporters of linking a long list of serious illnesses to overseas burn pits are pushing new legislation designed to help service members suffering from toxic exposure. Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., spoke on Capitol Hill last week on behalf... Read More Details

Tulane Partners with NGB

Tulane University’s School of Professional Advancement will soon offer credit towards a graduate degree for service members who complete the National Guard Bureau’s Homeland Security Institute program of study. The collaboration between the New... Read More Details

April 2019 Update

On March 11, President Donald Trump released the proposed federal budget request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. The budget requests $750.0 billion in total national defense spending, as well as increases in National Guard Personnel and Operations and... Read More Details

Pentagon Report: War Costs Since 9/11 Exceed $1.5 Trillion

The United States obligated more than $1.5 trillion on “war-related” costs since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a recent Defense Department report. Most of those funds have been dedicated to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the figure also... Read More Details