Military

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to eliminate 25,000 vacant positions and implement the largest reorganization of its giant health care system in three decades.

The massive vessels were decommissioned in favor of smaller, more versatile ships. And experts are skeptical of the plan to build new ones.

The formation of the Western Hemisphere Command is intended to bolster the Trump Administration's military priorities, including border security and targeting suspected drug cartels in the Caribbean.

Veterans with male breast cancer will face additional requirements to obtain VA care and disability benefits. The agency says the Biden Administration falsely classified men's breasts as reproductive organs.

Diaper Bank of NC is a nonprofit that serves residents in need across the state. The organization has received requests for products like formula for babies, including diapers due to recent furloughs and layoffs from the federal government.

Not only is the federal shutdown affecting many troops' paychecks, it's interrupting training and causing supply shortages.

The Defense Civilian Training Corps serves as a "talent factory" for the Department of Defense.

The U.S. government urgently is trying to develop a homegrown American supply chain of rare earths — especially for military use.

The Navy's drive to privatize barracks concerns some observers, who note problems with the military's earlier effort to privatize on-base family housing.

Troops will now face tougher rules to get exceptions to the daily shaving requirement. That could especially affect Black men with a skin condition that makes shaving painful and potentially disfiguring.