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How to Maximize Your Car's Resale Value Before You Change Duty Stations -- Looking to offload that old car as part of your next PCS move? Here are some things you can do to get as much money for it as...

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Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA

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We Fought for This Country. Don't Cut the One Department That Fights for Us.

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Veterans' Protests Planned for D-Day Latest in Nearly 250 Years of Fighting for Their Benefits

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The Fatal Cost of Twisting Intelligence

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Women Have Served with Honor for Decades. This Administration Can't Erase That History.

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Lessons Not Learned

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Access to Care Could Have Saved My Son's Life. Other Vets Should Have a Chance.

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Don't Dishonor Veterans with Broken Promises and Empty Gestures

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Children In Military Families Face Unique Psychological Challenges, and the Barriers to Getting Help Add to the Strain

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Reckoning with Mortality: The Hidden Toll of Being a Military Family in the Aviation Community

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Trump & Co's Polygraph Pandemonium

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Want Efficiency? Fund the VA and Cut the Proven Waste in Privatized Veterans Care

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Community Care Is Not VA Care

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Deny Who We Are or Harm Our Country? The Impossible Choice Facing Transgender Service Members

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I Was Fired, and Thousands of Veterans Are Next Unless We Act

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Fear and Chaos Hit Military Families After Sudden Firings of Top Leaders

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Speak Up Before VA Health Care Is Gutted

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Punishing Military Officers for Political Reasons Endangers Our Troops and Threatens National Security

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We Military Spouses Don't Want Special Treatment. We Just Want to Work.

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Art and Arms: 2 Aspects of Resistance in Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

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Congress Needs to Support the VA and Firearms Industry's Partnership to Prevent Veterans' Suicides

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Military Diversity Is Not the Problem

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Veterans Are Much More than 'Feel Good' Hires And Shouldn't Be DEI Tokens

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We Need to Normalize Talking About How the Brain Responds to Severe Stress in the Military Community

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Midyear Debt Reduction Strategy for Military Households -- It's time for a financial gut check and a solid plan to clean up debt before it sneaks into 2026 with you.

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How to Change Tricare Coverage After a Qualifying Life Event – and Which QLEs Count -- Many service members experience one or more qualifying life events, or QLEs, each year, unlocking opportunities to change...

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4 Midyear Money Moves for a December to Remember -- Whether your big goal is paying off debt, building your emergency fund or just surviving a few days of theme park madness...

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Program to Prevent Veteran Home Foreclosures Has Been Revived -- The Senate passed a bill to create what's known as a partial claims program that will essentially allow veterans with...

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Senators Demand Answers After Case Dropped Against Navy Federal for Charging Troops Overdraft Fees -- A group of senators says they have "profound alarm" and are demanding answers over the unprecedented decision by the...

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Iron Sharpens Iron: New Master Class Teaches How to Find the Mentor You Need on the Job Hunt

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Pentagon Encourages Troops to Join Immigration Enforcement, Border Security Job Training Program

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Defense Jobs Master Class: Use Your Military Skills to Get Your Dream Job During Military Transition

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'Open Cruelty': Transgender Troops Describe Indignities as They're Kicked Out of the Military -- Leaders in the Trump administration have minced few words in articulating how they feel about transgender troops.

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New Login System Coming for Defense Department and Some VA Websites -- The old DS Logon system will be retired in favor of the more secure myAuth system.

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'Blood-Curdling Screams': Marine Veteran Helps Stop Walmart Mass Stabbing with Shopping Cart -- Matthew Kolakowski had just left the Walmart checkout lane when a worker screamed that a man had a knife.

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Virginia Governor Demands Richmond Pay Wrongfully Convicted Navy Vet $5.8M -- Under a new state law, the city of Richmond, Virginia, owes Marvin Grimm $5.8 million, matching a sum the state paid for the...

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Ford GPW: The Forgotten Military Jeep -- Think you know Jeeps? Think again. Buckle up for the story of how Ford helped win World War II and create an automotive icon...

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How Navy SEAL and SWCC Training Is Alike and Different -- Navy SEAL and Navy SWCC training share a foundation rooted in rigorous training, water competency and high fitness standards.

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Iron Sharpens Iron: How to Find the Career Mentor You Need on the Job Hunt

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Roman Era Mosaic Panel With Erotic Theme That Was Stolen During World War II Returns to Pompeii

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Israeli Airstrikes Hit Syrian Defense Ministry Headquarters in Heart of Damascus

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Young Recruits Prepare for Battle While Ukraine Awaits Aid Announced by Trump

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In One of the Marines' Most Iconic Jobs, a Stunning Pattern of Suicide -- Marine Corps drill instructors are a national symbol of discipline. But for some, their imposing persona belies a dark...

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Unsupervised: Military Child Care Centers Slow to Report Abuse with Little Oversight -- A Military.com investigation into military day care centers revealed that service branch rules generally prioritize...

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Army Secretary Directs West Point to Rescind Appointment of Biden-Era Cybersecurity Director -- The directive, shared on the social platform X by Secretary Dan Driscoll, came just a day after Jen Easterly was announced as...

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Army Puts Political Operative in Charge of Public Affairs, Stoking Concerns of Creeping Partisanship -- While it's not unusual for political hands to manage messaging at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the ongoing change to...

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Navy Calls Off Search for Sailor Who Went Overboard During Exercise Near Australia -- The sailor, assigned to the USS George Washington, was reported missing on Monday afternoon local time, and the Navy...

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16-Mile Pipeline Would Carry Fuel from Kaskaskia River to Scott Air Force Base -- Backers believe the pipeline is essential to ensuring the federal government keeps the military base open long term.

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Alabama Congressman '100% Sure' US Space Command Coming to Huntsville -- U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Alabama) said he has been assured by President Donald Trump that U.S. Space Command is coming to...

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First Leader of Space Force Pacific Command Ends Tenure -- The first leader of the U.S. Space Force's Pacific command officially ended his tenure in Hawaii in a change of command...

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Wife of Marine Corps Veteran Released from ICE Custody After Advocacy from GOP Senator's Office -- Until this week, Mexican national Paola Clouatre had been one of tens of thousands of people in ICE custody as the Trump...

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Coast Guard Begins Salvage Operation and Investigates Cause of Boat Collision that Killed Two Girls -- The U.S. Coast Guard said it was beginning a salvage operation while investigating the cause of a boat collision near Miami...

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Navy Torpedo Boat Abandoned in South Carolina Waters. Now the Owner Has Been Arrested -- These days, the only threat posed by a 120-foot-long Navy torpedo vessel is to the marsh outside of Charleston, S.C., where...

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