Thousands of U.S. troops will lose a monthly cost-of-living stipend beginning Jan. 1 because fewer locations across the lower 48 states including the Washington D.C. metro area qualified as excessively expensive living areas, according to a Pentagon announcement Wednesday.
Warning that extremism in the ranks is increasing, Pentagon officials are issuing detailed new rules prohibiting service members from actively engaging in extremist activities.
The Army will send a Fort Drum, N.Y., brigade to the Middle East, a Fort Bliss, Texas, brigade to South Korea and a Fort Carson, Colo., brigade to Europe, the announcements said.
The 13 U.S. service members killed in a bombing at Kabul’s airport as they worked to evacuate thousands of Americans, Afghans and allies ahead of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan will receive the highest honor from Congress, the White House said Thursday.
The trio of concepts pitched by service members tied Monday for top honors at the 18th Airborne Corps’ sixth iteration of its Dragon’s Lair innovation competition at Fort Bragg.