Tom Philpott has covered the military for more than 30 years. His syndicated column, Military Update, reaches 2 million readers and focuses on breaking news affecting pay, benefits, and the lifestyle of service people. He is a contributing editor with Military Officer, and his freelance articles have appeared in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, Washingtonian, Readers' Digest, and Kiplinger's. Philpott served a tour in the U.S. Coast Guard as an information officer.
Interim director of the Defense Commissary Agency Rear Adm. Robert Bianchi, USN (Ret), says he is committed to reforming how commissary shelves are stocked.
NOAA's top officer has flown into close to 150 hurricanes. Now he's leading an organization that sends ships, airplanes, and officers to study important weather patterns.
TRICARE users filling prescriptions at test sites for MHS Genesis are likely the patient group most frustrated by the new, commercially designed electronic health record system, which will be phased in and adopted throughout the military health care system by 2022 in order to modernize the VA's record keeping process.
The House Veterans Affairs Committee voted unanimously to advance a bill that could qualify 90,000 vets for Agent Orange-related disability pay and health care.