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Byline: Rose L. Thayer FORT HOOD, Texas - Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., pledged Thursday to question Defense Department officials about terminating military housing contracts, calling the agreements 'poorly crafted' and [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - A lawsuit involving more than 229,000 veterans with hearing problems that they claim are linked to faulty earplugs issued by the military begins [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer Officials for the Army's Criminal Investigation Command offered few examples to Congress on Tuesday about improvements to their operations more than three months after a report [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - The Army on Wednesday announced $1.1 billion will be invested in improving military housing by a company that manages residences at six bases [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer Corvias, the company that manages base housing at Fort Meade, Md., has halted its participation in discussions with residents about their concerns with its housing at [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer FORT HOOD, Texas - Lt. Gen. Pat White uncased the III Corps flag at Fort Hood on Friday to mark his return from deployment and to [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - In the year since Texas enacted a program designed to alert the public when a veteran or service member at risk of harming [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - Lakin Lewis said she kept her newborn baby's bottles in sealed, plastic bags in her cabinets to keep roaches from crawling across them. [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - A new review of Fort Hood leadership's response to the disappearance and death of Spc. Vanessa Guillen has begun under a four-star general, [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - A former Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, policy and medical experts, and a famous comedian are joining forces Friday night to discuss toxic [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Supreme Court has declined to hear the case of retired Army Capt. Le Roy Torres, who sued the state of Texas [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer More reliable information is needed about the potential costs and savings associated with the Defense Department's idea to merge its retail and grocery organizations, according to [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - Hundreds of pages of court documents were unsealed last week in a class action lawsuit against 3M regarding allegedly faulty earplugs it sold [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - An online town hall for residents of Joint Base San Antonio, Texas was moved to Wednesday evening to allow for leadership to have [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer A Kansas congressman introduced a resolution Friday to commend the efforts of the U.S. special forces and the military dog who raided a Syrian compound and [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - Six years ago, Leilani Hamilton and her family of four moved into an historic home at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio. [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer The California National Guard now has more than 900 troops helping combat the wildfires burning in northern parts of the state. The Guard had deployed about [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - A former Army civilian working in Korea pleaded guilty Tuesday for his part in an international scam that drained millions of dollars from [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer The California National Guard activated 470 service members to support efforts to fight the fires that have spread across 66,000 acres in Sonoma County in the [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer FORT HOOD, Texas - As a boy growing up in the Philippines during World War II, Jose Manzano-Somera's family opened their home to the American soldiers [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer Three infantrymen killed Sunday in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle accident at Fort Stewart, Ga., included an 18-year veteran who served in the Iraq War and two [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer An Army colonel convicted of possessing child pornography in military and federal courts is challenging his military conviction based on double jeopardy in an appeal to [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer An Air Force colonel who pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in federal court last week will also receive an administrative discharge from the military, service [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - A deployment expected to end Monday was extended into November for 1,000 Texas National Guard troops serving along the U.S.-Mexico border, Pentagon officials [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer A 17-year veteran of the Air Force and his wife were found dead Saturday night after a shooting in military housing near Offutt Air Force Base, [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer Tech. Sgt. Zachary Firlik, a 17-year veteran of the Air Force, and his wife were found dead Saturday night following a shooting in military housing near [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - Dealing drugs, stealing hand grenades and having an unregistered handgun are some of the charges facing the 13 Marines arrested at Camp Pendleton, [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer One soldier died and three others were injured following an Army helicopter crash early Thursday morning in the training area at Fort Polk, La., according to [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer Soldiers at Fort Riley, Kan., were the first to begin training on the Army's newest night vision technology - a goggle-binocular that offers improved visibility in [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - The Government Accountability Office will examine how the Department of Veterans Affairs rates its nursing homes at the request of three senators, who [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - A former Fort Bliss soldier was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for theft and possession of stolen firearms at the west [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer TEMPLE, Texas - Bobby Kiser didn't realize he'd spent much of his adult life living within the government's definition of homeless, until this year when he [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer Thirteen Marines suspected of participating in human smuggling operations were formally charged after spending nearly two months detained at Camp Pendleton, Calif., officials announced Friday. The [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - Three ground platoons from the Texas National Guard are setting up operations and readying high-water rescue vehicles in southeast Texas after Tropical Storm [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer A Navy commander who faced a rape charge stemming from a drunken night in 2016 that led to three civilian criminal trials and a court-martial has [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - Three projects to build barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border must be delayed because the Pentagon does not have enough money to complete them, [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer A southeast regional director for the Veterans Health Administration was placed on administrative leave Tuesday, among other regional and Atlanta-area staff disciplinary actions, after a Vietnam [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer  Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., is demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs about how a veteran stricken with cancer and living in a VA [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer SAN ANTONIO - More than 20 Air Force, Army and Navy servicemembers competed Thursday at the Alpha Warrior Proving Ground outside San Antonio to earn the [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - It's been more than two years since the Palicia brothers saw each other, but after traveling more than 20 hours from their overseas [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer Defense Secretary Mark Esper has authorized up to 5,500 servicemembers to continue missions along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2020. Esper approved the request last [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer A Marine Corps family that sued a management company over health problems that they claimed were caused by mold in their military housing unit was awarded [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - A soldier's death while conducting maintenance on a Bradley Fighting Vehicle at Fort Hood is under investigation by the U.S. Army Combat Readiness [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer No flooding, injuries or significant damage have yet been reported at military bases and the National Guard in most states have begun to drawdown personnel as [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer Evacuations were ordered Thursday for some Navy personnel in Virginia while residents at military bases in the Carolinas were asked to stay off roads and remain [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer Military bases located in the southeastern United States are taking precautionary measures and more than 10,000 active-duty and National Guard troops stand ready to support ongoing [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling and Rose L. Thayer The Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday braced for the effects of Hurricane Dorian by closing health care facilities and canceling appointments in [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer and Corey Dickstein Hurricane Dorian continued its slow crawl Tuesday toward the U.S. East Coast, prompting military bases from Florida to North Carolina to move personnel [...]

Byline: Corey Dickstein and Rose L. Thayer WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Tuesday approved the transfer of $3.6 billion of Pentagon money meant for military construction projects around [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer Military bases along Florida's eastern coast are stowing aircraft, securing equipment and placing sandbags in preparation for Hurricane Dorian to make landfall Monday morning. Projection models [...]