Military

For Women’s History Month, Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, who leads the U.S. Transportation Command based at Scott Air Force Base, discussed her experience as a woman in the military at an event Monday.

On a near daily basis, the U.S. Transportation Command loads planes, ships and vehicles with supplies bound for Ukraine.

The facility will include a first-ever innovation center, where people without security clearances can work alongside NGA staff on problems or issues the agency regularly grapples with.

“Logistics is very important to any operation, and I think our logistics prowess has shown itself over and over again,” said Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost.

The service organization is closing some of its centers, opening new ones, and expanding its online programs to respond to funding reductions and troops' changing needs.

Years after the federal government got involved to improve ballot access for active members of the military, expanded online voting that is not available to the general public is reducing problems for troops wanting to vote.

AARP says military families and veterans are almost 40% more likely than civilians to become victims of scammers, and 80% of the attacks specifically take aim at their military benefits.

The jet is a retrofitted military-use version of the Learjet 35A Business aircraft. It transports high-ranking officials on a moment’s notice as well as providing aeromedical evacuation operations.

Lawyers are aggressively advertising potential windfalls for people exposed to contaminated water at the base. But it's too soon to know how the claim process will play out.

As states across the country restrict abortion, President Biden and some other Democrats want to ease federal restrictions on the procedure.