Rebecca Kheel

1 week ago | military.com | Konstantin Toropin |Rebecca Kheel

The U.S. military has moved additional ships and tanker aircraft into the Middle East and hurried a carrier to the region, officials have confirmed to Military.com, as Israel and Iran continue to exchange missile barrages and threaten to plunge the region into war. As tensions rise, a Democratic senator is introducing legislation to prevent President Donald Trump from taking U.S. military action against Iran without explicit congressional approval.

2 weeks ago | military.prod.acquia-sites.com | Drew F. Lawrence |Konstantin Toropin |Rebecca Kheel

It started when Jennifer Glick, an Army criminal investigator, was told her nearly 2-year-old daughter Evie had tripped, fallen and hit her head at the Navy's Ford Island, Hawaii, child development center in late summer 2022. Glick and her military husband were getting ready to leave Hawaii the following year when she said the Navy Family Advocacy Program called with troubling news: Evie may have been physically abused at the CDC.

3 weeks ago | military.com | Rebecca Kheel

The deadline for transgender service members on active duty to voluntarily leave the military arrived Friday, setting the stage for the Pentagon to soon begin kicking out those troops. For the transgender service members faced with the decision to leave or be booted later, Friday -- which also marks the first full weekend of Pride Month when many cities around the country, including Washington, D.C., will be holding parades and festivals celebrating LGBTQ+ rights -- was an agonizing day.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Rebecca Kheel

The deadline for transgender service members on active duty to voluntarily leave the military arrived Friday, setting the stage for the Pentagon to soon begin kicking out those troops. For the transgender service members faced with the decision to leave or be booted later, Friday -- which also marks the first full weekend of Pride Month when many cities around the country, including Washington, D.C., will be holding parades and festivals celebrating LGBTQ+ rights -- was an agonizing day.

3 weeks ago | military.com | Rebecca Kheel

The program that allows veterans to see private doctors using Department of Veterans Affairs funding would get a 50% boost under a spending plan released by House Republicans on Wednesday. Overall, the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal 2026 VA spending bill would give the department about $453 billion -- a whopping $83 billion more than Congress approved for the department for this year.