Military members and their families could see improved housing, better child care services and easier access to school meal support under a series of bills making their way through the legislative process.
For example, Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) introduced a bill to help military families with housing. The bill is included in the House National Defense… Read more »
Some members of Congress on Wednesday left open the possibility of deeper U.S. military involvement in the unfolding war between Israel and Hamas as Americans were killed and taken hostage, and others were struggling to leave a country at war.
"Whatever Israel wants, they should ask us, and we should be there to help," Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., a retired Air Force brigadier… Read more »
WASHINGTON ― A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers has banded together to improve the vetting of financial advisers for service members. The move comes after an Army counselor with undisclosed conflicts of interest with outside brokerage firms allegedly swindled two dozen Gold Star families.
The House in July passed legislation from Reps. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., that… Read more »
Pfc. Salem Ezz had just started working with a new Army innovation lab on Fort Stewart when his fellow soldiers returning from deployments began discovering black mold in their barracks.
Soldiers were posting pictures and videos of the mold that had infiltrated their barracks on social media pages like “Army W.T.F!” and TikTok. “That made it explode,” Ezz said.
Pictures… Read more »
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – US Congressman Don Bacon told Kurdistan 24’s Rahim Rashidi that he wants the US to provide more security to the Kurdistan Region.
“When I served in Iraq, the Kurds were our best allies; they worked with us everywhere we went. I worked with them, I was at the headquarters and multinational forces Iraq with (General David) Petraeus.
“So we've always had great… Read more »
House lawmakers grilled officials on the state of military housing Wednesday after a damning watchdog report found that single service members are living with mold, contaminated water, no air conditioning and other major safety hazards on military housing facilities.
Some barracks that house unaccompanied service members are not livable, and even facilities that score well on military… Read more »
Members of a House Armed Service Committee panel expressed shock and frustration Wednesday with the conditions of barracks that house U.S. troops after a government report detailed widespread health and safety issues, including raw sewage, rodent infestations, mold and inoperable fire safety systems.
"This is an issue that goes beyond party lines and demands our attention and… Read more »
Before the Space Force was founded in December 2019, Airmen ruled the heavens, at least as far as most military space activities were concerned. For decades tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of Airmen controlled and acquired satellites, managed communications and intelligence, and performed other space missions. Air Force Space Command claimed more than 26,000… Read more »
BELLEVUE, Neb. (WOWT) - Officials at Offutt Air Force Base announced Wednesday that a new organization that will oversee key grids needed to maintain national security.
U.S. Strategic Command, known as STRATCOM, is the Defense Department’s leading command responsible for operating missile defense and maintaining a global information grid. There, the Electromagnetic Spectrum… Read more »
The U.S. military is failing to speedily develop and deploy electronic warfare equipment amid a global competition for electromagnetic spectrum supremacy, according to a congressman who served in the Air Force for more than two decades.
After years of putting electronic warfare on “autopilot,” troops’ ability to now jam and spoof and spy from afar has “withered,” said Rep. Don… Read more »
