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A bipartisan House bill would remove federal taxes from military bonuses.
The bill, nicknamed the BONUS Act, would exempt servicemembers’ enlistment, reenlistment, and performance bonuses from being taxed by the federal government. Service members in combat zones already benefit from tax-free income during their deployments, but the proposed legislation would put more cash into military families’ pockets at home.
The bipartisan bill introduced this week is sponsored by Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) and Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) who are co-chairs of the House Military Family Caucus.

Not so much who is admitted, but who is hired

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Commander Salamander Substack
This took place in the Biden Administration. With the discussions about what is going on with faculty at West Point the last week, I figured this is as good a time as any to show how the institution’s actions in hiring faculty align more with building a system of political indoctrination than education.
This system feels more like the humanities department at Oberlin or Brown than a military service academy training the next generation of officers to fight our wars and secure our peace.

Of all things to lose track of, billion-dollar weapons of mass destruction should be high on the list. At least that’s something common sense would have you believe. Despite the level of international security that could be at risk, the lost funds, and the pure insanity of losing something so important, Uncle Sam has done just that. Multiple times over. 
Take a look at these stranger-than-fiction instances of lost nuclear missiles and the stories of how they fell off the government’s radar. Not once, not twice, but six times, nuclear missiles were misfired or misplaced.

References by Pentagon officials, the think tank world, and various world leaders to autonomous weapon systems often cite a U.S. military policy requirement that doesn’t even exist. Published in 2012 and updated in 2023, Department of Defense Directive 3000.09, Autonomy in Weapon Systems governs the Pentagon’s deployment and use of semi-autonomous and autonomous weapon systems. An autonomous weapon system is a weapon system that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by an operator.

As part of the 2025 NASCAR Salutes program over Memorial Day weekend at the Coca-Cola 600, Ally #48 driver, Alex Bowman, will be representing the name of a fallen hero on his car as a small nod to military families and veterans alike. We Are The Mighty sat down with race car driver Alex Bowman and John Kempel, whose uncle is being honored at the race. This year’s honoree, Michael Kempel, is the uncle of a current Ally auto insurance business employee based in Chicago, John Kempel. Michael Kempel, Petty Officer in the U.S.

Just as the U.S. military has invented many everyday items – whether they meant to or not – they also brought many weapons to light, including those that never made it to battle. Though the research and effort went into creating said weapons, ultimately they were found unnecessary. However, the process behind these weapons is a story worthy of the history books, including the research that got them there.
Take a look at these never-manufactured weapons and the stories behind why their timelines fell short:
The Lockheed attack helicopter
In the mid 60s, the U.S.

The Space Force intends to make defending the military from on-orbit threats a top priority in the coming years. But the service’s top official warned lawmakers that the mission — coupled with a slew of other additional requirements — is challenged by limited resources.
“Despite the dramatic rise in threats and increasing importance of space over the last few budget cycles, the Space Force has experienced shrinking resources. This disconnect between value and investment creates risk for our nation,” Chief of Space Operations Gen.

The Pentagon wants to hear from contractors that can produce and maintain a secure software-based platform to track data, interactions and other records associated with its All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s ever-growing caseload of investigations into unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) that could pose a threat to U.S. national security.

Electronic warfare is an integral part of modern combat. Allied jammers can deny enemy communications, impair the targeting of friendly units, and even hide them from enemy detection altogether. The U.S. Navy employs the ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System on the E/A-18G Growler aircraft for its electronic warfare capability. Introduced in 1972, the legacy ALQ-99 suffers from poor reliability and system failures that have caused crews to fly with undetected faults. Additionally, the system interferes with the aircraft’s own radar and adversely affects the plane’s top speed.

The Department of the Navy released a solicitation Wednesday to further its pursuit of technology enablers for unmanned ground vehicles.
The Marine Corps — which is part of the Department of the Navy — has a requirement for “multi-purpose” UGVs, Lt. Col. Scott Humr, deputy director for intelligent robotics and autonomous systems (IRAS) at the Capabilities Development Directorate, noted during a presentation at the Modern Day Marine conference last month.
“I think those are going to be very critical for logistics, for sensing, for communications, ISR, etc.