Carson Frame
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American Homefront
For disabled children of military parents, frequent moves can lead to schooling and health care gaps
When service members move from base to base, they sometimes find it takes too long for their child's new school to begin providing special education services.
Jay Price
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American Homefront
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States are mailing absentee ballots sooner and - in a few places - letting troops cast ballots online. Still, voter turnout among military personnel lags the general population. -
The Air Force is revamping the way it trains pilots so they can better respond to potential challenges from countries like China and Russia.
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The Defense Department is planning to eliminate Confederate names from bases and more than 1100 other things in the military. But it's not clear whether that will include an unusual display at West Point - a bronze depiction of a Ku Klux Klan member.
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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.
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This month, the Biden Administration hopes to expedite the process by eliminating temporary humanitarian parole and concentrating resources instead on permanent visas.
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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.
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Archives, artifacts, and 'a lot of rocks': The Army Corps of Engineers is training veterans for jobsAn Army Corps of Engineers program teaches former troops how to do curation work, while also preparing them for jobs in other fields.
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The Future Soldier Preparatory Course hopes to give potential recruits who are just short of meeting U.S. Army physical or academic standards the small boost they need.
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As states across the country restrict abortion, President Biden and some other Democrats want to ease federal restrictions on the procedure.
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Since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan last year, some American veterans have been scrambling to help their Afghan allies escape the collapsing country. Though some have succeeded, most have not.
The American Homefront Project collaborated with the PBS documentary series American Veteran to profile men and women who have served in the U.S. military.