Senate confirms senior VA advisor to become next department watchdog
The incoming VA Inspector General, Cheryl Mason, worked for several months alongside the senior VA leaders she will now be charged with investigating.
Pentagon & Congress
Senate panel OKs plans for $852 billion in defense spending next year
The Senate defense budget plan would give a boost of more than 2% to base military funding next year, more than the White House asked for.
Military drone crashes during test flight in Iran, injuring 2
Images of the wreckage circulating on social media suggested it was the type of drone that carries bombs.
Search on for missing Marine Corps F-35 jet after pilot ejects
The search for the missing aircraft was focused on two lakes near North Charleston, after the pilot parachuted to safety.
Republican lawmakers will try again this week to pass a defense budget
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Sept. 18, 2023.
Opinion
Readers react to op-ed on honoring Vietnam War’s most secret warriors
Readers applaud the call for a Congressional Gold Medal to honor the US Military Assistance Command Vietnam’s Studies and Observations Group, or MACV-SOG.
North Korean weapons likely won’t help Russia’s war on Ukraine–Milley
The top U.S. military officer said the recent North Korean and Russian summit means Pyongyang will probably provide Russia Soviet-era 152 mm artillery.
Pentagon orders new interviews on deadly 2021 Afghan airport attack
The interviews are meant to see if service members who were not included in the original investigation, have new or different information.
Is the truth out there? NASA wants to help build public trust on UFOs
The agency could play a major role in data collection and further research objects of unknown origins in Earth’s atmosphere.
No, the Taliban are not promoting Western tourism in Afghanistan
Ski season in Afghanistan will have to wait a while.
Opinion
Because I was a woman who served, I was stereotyped by a stranger
Noelle Wiehe went to a veterans resource fair and found herself talking to a financial advisor who suddenly asked her if she’d been sexually assaulted.
