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How will a government shutdown affect military families?

Military families are worried about how a government shutdown would affect them, including their paychecks, the impact it will have on food assistance…

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White House directs Pentagon to initiate military compensation review

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TRICARE recipients will once again have to pay telehealth copays

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Military family members take health care cost concerns right to the top

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Navy out of money for tuition assistance; sailors and experts concerned about impact

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Korean War Veterans salute as the honor guard presents the American flag at the Korean War memorial at Battery Park in New York, Friday, July 27, 2018. Korean War veterans have something extra to celebrate as they mark the 65th anniversary of the armistice that ended combat. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves)

Military retirees to get big COLA increase, troops at the border will not get danger pay

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AP Photo/Brennan LinsleyA graduating Air Force Academy cadet straightens his cap during the graduation ceremony for the class of 2015, at the U.S. Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs, Colo., Thursday, May 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Defense authorization deal to alter troops’ pay and retirement benefits

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Vice Adm. Norb Ryan, President, Military Officers Association of America

Troops start the new year with a 1 percent pay raise. That’s a little less than the 1.8 percent raise they would have gotten automatically from the annual…

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Vice Adm. Norb Ryan, President, Military Officers Association of America

The Senate armed services committee and its subcommittees will have more than a dozen new members when the 114th Congress starts in January. And the House…

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Col. Mike Barron (Ret.), Military Officers Association of America

The first day of markups for the National Defense Authorization Act includes a big win for military personnel advocates but potentially a big swing and a miss too. The Personnel subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee rejects cuts to housing allowances…commissary funding and changes to TRICARE that would make some participants pay more themselves. The subcommittee didn’t say anything about a 1 percent pay raise for troops for 2015 though. Retired Army Col. Mike Barron, deputy director…

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