Rose L. Thayer

The Pentagon’s inspector general said Wednesday that investigators will evaluate how the Defense Department and military services respond to allegations of child abuse at its day care facilities after parents have said they were not informed immediately when their children were harmed at on-base care centers.

Nearly 250 Coast Guard members who were unlawfully forced into retirement under the guise of a force reduction could be entitled to millions of dollars in back pay and benefits, according to a federal court decision.

A federal judge on Tuesday halted a lawsuit from a civilian engineer who claims she was raped aboard a Navy ship so the Labor Department could determine whether the incident should be treated as a work-related injury.

As Command Sgt. Maj. Vern Daley prepared for a parachute jump over Alaska on Thursday with the 11th Airborne Division, he had one addition to his standard Army uniform and equipment — his grandfather’s World War II-era jump wings.

A colonel who served as an academic program director and a chaperone for the West Point women’s tennis team faces charges that he made sexual comments to cadets, provided alcohol to one cadet and then asked the student to lie about it during an investigation, according to court records.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Carter walked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on April 6, 2018, for a common back surgery meant to alleviate chronic neck pain. He never walked again. Carter is suing the military hospital and surgeon for the trauma his spinal cord suffered.

A jury Saturday found an Air Force general not guilty of sexually assaulting a female subordinate but convicted him of dereliction of duty and conduct unbecoming stemming from a night of sex and alcohol at an air base in 2023.

The National Guard Bureau has launched a second pilot program to offer soldiers in certain states child care during drill weekends after the first attempt launched nearly two years ago failed.

World War II veteran Ralph Newman, who drew cartoons for Stars and Stripes, will be honored this month at San Diego’s Comic-Con International for the uncredited work he did after the war, including stories for characters Richie Rich and Casper the Friendly Ghost.

A Fort Bliss soldier was killed, and another injured during a shooting early Sunday morning at a bar in nearby El Paso, according to base officials and local law enforcement.