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The children of active-duty and retired service members could remain with their parents’ TRICARE medical coverage until age 26 with no added premium under a bill introduced in the House and Senate.

Both the House and Senate Armed Services committees include a 3.8% base pay increase for service members in their respective versions of the annual defense policy bill.

Thanks to a NGAUS push, tens of thousands of Army National Guard Soldiers mobilized under authority 12304b will receive full credit toward early retirement retroactively to 2012.

Seven more Army bases will revert to their long-standing names, President Donald Trump said June 10 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but not to honor their original namesakes.

Prominent Republicans are saying President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 defense budget request does not deliver the “unprecedented” increase in defense and border security the White House claims.

Maj. Gen. Trent Kelly, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi, formally retired from the Mississippi Army National...

The nation’s governors are alarmed by indications that Space Force leadership is “aggressively pushing a plan to fully implement Legislative Proposal 480 and remove Air National Guard space units from states by the end of the year.”

NGAUS offered company-grade officers a peek behind the legislative curtain during the Capitol Summit conducted April 13-15.

Rep. John James, R-Mich., a former active Army Apache pilot turned Guard advocate in Congress, on Wednesday visited the National Guard Memorial for a meeting with retired Maj. Gen. Francis M. McGinn, the association president.

A bipartisan coalition of lawmaker reintroduced legislation that would allow more than 50,000 combat-disabled veterans to simultaneously receive full retirement and disability pay.

Bipartisian legislation introduced last week in both chambers of Congress would create a Space National Guard, fulfilling what Senate sponsors said was President Donald Trump’s “promise to do so in his second term.”

House speaker Mike Johnson is set to hold a vote today on a Republican stopgap budget to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year.