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As the Biden administration nears its final days, military and government officials are starting to speak more openly about the scope of the fighting that has occurred against Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.

The United States Coast Guard arrested human smugglers who crashed into their patrol boat during a getaway attempt and attacked them, according to court documents. Coast Guardsmen arrested Oscar Eduardo Audelo-Rodriguez and Francisco Brado-Cota on Jan. 5 for illegally entering the U.S. by sea near San Diego in an attempt to smuggle Mexican immigrants into the country. Around 4 p.m. that day, two B...[Read More]

A federal watchdog on Wednesday criticized Veterans Affairs leaders for failing to refund millions of dollars in canceled medical co-pay charges to veterans, despite knowing about the problem for years. The reprimand from the Office of Special Counsel, or OSC, comes after a whistleblower report that department administrators had “no agency policies, procedures, or plans” to get the backlog of repa...[Read More]

The Quadrenial Review of Military Compensation was unveiled and reported that “the department’s compensation package is strongly competitive with the civilian labor market,” a senior defense official told reporters.

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have been negotiating in recent months to complete an agreement to settle the future of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago, which is home to a strategically important U.K.-U.S. naval and bomber base.

More active-duty military parents will soon be able to enroll their children in schools operated by the Defense Department on bases in the continental United States — even if they live off base. A new law will allow full-time, active-duty service members assigned to specific installations to request that their children be enrolled in the school operated by the DOD, regardless of whether they live ...[Read More]