Trusted Traveler Program at Bases Across US Suspended Following Las Vegas, New Orleans Attacks

Pass Road Gate on Keesler Air Force Base

Military installations across the country are increasing security measures and suspending certain base visiting privileges following attacks by one current and one former service member last week in New Orleans and Las Vegas. Bases on Friday began announcing the suspension of the Trusted Traveler Program — an initiative that allows vetted Defense Department personnel to […]

Troops at 16 More Bases Will Do Local Household Goods Shipments Through New Private Manager

Movers pack items belonging to a U.S. soldier. (U.S. Transportation Command photo by Stephenie Wade)

Beginning in September, troops and their families at 16 more military bases will begin doing local household goods shipments through a new private manager. U.S. Transportation Command announced Tuesday that HomeSafe Alliance, the Defense Department’s overarching contractor for privatized household goods moves, will start arranging the local moves as well as the first interstate moves […]

Aircraft Evacuated, Bases Closed as Debby Batters Southeast US

Storm surge breaks over a sea wall in Horseshoe Beach, Fla.

Military bases in the path of Hurricane Debby were moving equipment, closing facilities and warning residents to be prepared as the storm made landfall Monday and started to move across the southeast United States. National Guardsmen in Florida, South Carolina and Kentucky were prepared to help with storm relief in Florida, where Debby hit as […]

Former Army Officer to Lead Peterson, Schriever and Other Space Force Bases

U.S. Space Force Col. Kenneth Klock, Space Base Delta 1 commander

A former longtime Army officer took the helm of the Peterson and Schriever Space Force bases on Thursday, along with other installations in Hawaii, New Hampshire and Greenland. As Commander of Space Base Delta 1, Col. Kenneth Klock will oversee over 4,300 people, who provide seven Space Force installations with support services, such as civil […]

US Says Troops Are Leaving Niger Bases This Weekend and in August After Coup

Maj. Gen. Kenneth P. Ekman

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will remove all its forces and equipment from a small base in Niger this weekend and fewer than 500 remaining troops will leave a critical drone base in the West African country in August, ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline set in an agreement with the new ruling junta, the […]

Here Are the First 14 Bases to Experience New Privatized Household Goods Moves

Movers load a service member’s household goods into a moving truck

Service members and families at 14 stateside U.S. military installations will be the first to relocate under the Defense Department’s new privatized process, U.S. Transportation Command announced Tuesday. In the beginning, only moves picked up and delivered within about 50 miles of the same base will be carried out by HomeSafe Alliance, the entity formed […]