Military Benefits

The academic performance of students in states with large populations of military-connected students varies “dramatically,” according to a new study about the challenges that affect military children’s education.

Military families will look to Defense Secretary James Mattis to ease some of the hardship caused by the burden of sequestration, stated family advocates in a public message posted on his first full week of work.

Concerns about possible cancer-causing contamination at the Laurel Bay family housing near Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, has led Marine officials to launch a new public relations effort and led Navy officials to distribute guidance to Navy health care providers worldwide.

We need to pay more than lip service to nontraditional PTSD treatments. We need to fund studies looking at the benefits of meditation, exercise, recreational therapies and other noninvasive approaches to achieving and maintaining health.

The Defense Department announced Friday a renewed effort to ensure veterans know how to request a review of their service records.

A defense official says the way forward may come in the form of a proposal, still in the works, that will greet the new administration.

The stresses of frequent deployments, despite the drawdowns, continue.

Need medical attention? You might be able to do some grocery shopping while you’re there, if the Navy’s planned test of putting medical clinics in some commissaries is successful.