'Another Kick in the Gut:' Biden's Pardons Still Fall Short for Many LGBTQ Veterans

People arrive before first lady Jill Biden speaks at a Pride Month celebration on the South Lawn of the White House

Andrew Espinosa was in his office in Boulder, Colorado, when the first message popped up on the Air Force veteran’s phone: Andy, is this finally the resolution you’ve been working for? President Biden had just announced he was “righting a historic wrong” by issuing pardons for gay veterans convicted of consensual sex, and Espinosa says […]

Maine Police Defend Search for Army Reserve Gunman Who Killed 18 Last Fall

Major Scott Gosselin of the Maine State Police testifies

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine state police on Thursday defended their search last fall for a gunman who had just killed 18 people, saying they didn’t rush to search woods surrounding his abandoned car because they feared a late-night ambush. The Oct. 25 shooting at a bowling alley and a bar was the deadliest in state […]

Army Reserve Fixes Tuition Benefits Breakdown Just Before Students Enter Fall Semester

U.S. Army Reserve Soldier fires a Browning M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun

The Army Reserve has seemingly fixed its scholarship program after the service component ran out of money to cover education benefits earlier this week and did not message the breakdown to its troops. “We have resolved the temporary outage of tuition assistance funding which impacted some of our soldiers,” a statement from the Army Reserve […]

Army Reserve Education Benefits Collapse Halts Fall Semester Enrollments

U.S. Army Reserve soldier fires a M240B automatic machine gun

The Army Reserve ran out of money to cover tuition for its soldiers and is scrambling to reallocate money ahead of the fall semester, which starts within two weeks at many schools. The Reserve allocated $20 million for tuition assistance this year, but it lowballed demand for college money and ended up needing a total […]

Military Sexual Assault Reports Rise, Even as Army Numbers Fall

The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view made through an airplane window in Washington

WASHINGTON — The number of reported sexual assaults across the military inched up by about 1% last year, as a sharp decline in Army numbers offset large increases in the other three services, U.S. officials told The Associated Press. The small overall uptick is significantly less than the 13% jump the Defense Department saw in […]