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FALLS CHURCH, Va. – As graduation season arrives, TRICARE-eligible young adults and their family members should understand how this milestone affects their TRICARE health coverage. Here’s what you need to know about TRICARE health plan options for young adults. “As your child reaches important milestones like graduation or specific birthdays, they may face changes to their TRICARE health plan eligibility,” explained Debra Fisher, health system specialist, Policy & Programs Branch, TRICARE Health Plan, at the Defense Health Agency. “Understanding these options early helps ensure your adult child can make well-informed decisions about their future health care coverage.”

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Fraud, Waste & Abuse... Qatar gave the former U.S. President Donald Trump a Boeing 747-8 jet. The plane isn’t ready to carry the president safely like Air Force One does. Trump still wants to use the plane even though many people and politicians don’t like the idea, according to a Reuters report. To make the Qatari plane as safe as Air Force One, it would need major renovations, this includes new security systems, communication tools, and defense equipment. Until the upgrades are done, the jet might only be allowed to fly within the U.S. or would need to fly with a military escort, according to a Reuters report.

Sheriff T.K. Waters said "Operation Rescue Our Children" resulted in multiple arrests, including a JSO civilian employee and an active duty Navy sailor.

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.

US Navy planes recently launched the largest-ever airstrike from an aircraft carrier, dropping 125,000 pounds of ordnance, a top admiral said this week. The USS Harry S. Truman and its strike group "launched the largest airstrike in the history of the world — 125,000 pounds — from a single aircraft carrier into Somalia," Adm. James Kilby, the acting chief of naval operations, said Monday.

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Secret state, lack of transparency... The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to block an effort to open the inner workings of the secretive DOGE cost-cutting effort to public scrutiny. The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal Wednesday urging the high court to put a hold on a judge’s orders giving a watchdog group access to documents detailing firings, grant terminations and other actions proposed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which was overseen by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

A Navy technician was arrested on charges of making a false bomb threat while he was on a Hawaiian Airlines flight, authorities said. Electronics Technician 1st Class John Stea, 35, was arrested and charged with making a false bomb threat and false report of a security threat.

To accomplish its mission of increasing the health security of the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that it "conducts critical science and provides health information" to protect the nation. But since President Trump's administration assumed power in January, many of the platforms the CDC used to communicate with the public have gone silent, an NPR analysis found.

Two sailors who are subjects in an overarching investigation into the three deaths of senior personnel assigned to Naval Station Great Lakes, Ill., died by apparent suicide, local officials confirmed to USNI News. Chief Gunner’s Mate Daniel Dlask and Machinist’s Mate First Class Jacob Lavold died on April 18 and May 14, respectively. Another sailor, Chief Damage Controlman Reba Miller, died on April 28. The circumstances of her death are still pending the results of a toxicology report, according to local officials.

Update: Public results will be available on Tuesday, May 27th. Note that TRIAD (CO, XO, CMC) received their copies May 22nd. May 22 - BOL TRIAD notification May 23 - Public Release Reminders: Triads must have a BOL account to retrieve early notification of E-5 and E-6 advancement results BOL only lists the Sailors that are selected for advancement; non-selected names are not part of the BOL display Sailors must be on a .mil domain computer to see their exam profile sheets in NEAS Profile information may not be available in NSIPS immediately

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OPSEC WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported, according to a Reuters review, potentially raising the stakes of a breach that has already drawn questions about data security in the Trump administration.

WASHINGTON -- A military veteran whose Capitol riot case was erased by a presidential proclamation was convicted Tuesday of charges that he illegally possessed guns and ammunition in his van when he was arrested near President Barack Obama's home in the nation's capital.

The UK and Europe have announced major sanctions against Russia as it became clear that Monday’s call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had failed to deliver any meaningful concessions from Moscow.

The Defense Department’s school system for the children of U.S. service members is a source of pride for many military parents. But a small and growing chorus of protest, like walkouts and missed classes, underscores increasing concern that these schools are being used as a political proving ground – and that education for American military families will suffer.

HONOLULU – Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT), announced the FY 2024 Sailors of the Year (SOY) during a ceremony held, May 14, at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu. Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Andrew Velikic was selected as the Sea Sailor of the Year, and Aviation Structural Mechanic 1st Class Joseph Hopkins was selected as the Shore Sailor of the Year.

The U.S. will upgrade a Philippine military base crucial for Manila’s South China Sea operations, including resupply missions to contested maritime features such as Second Thomas Shoal, by constructing a boat repair and maintenance facility. Naval Detachment Oyster Bay, home to Philippine Navy patrol ships, gunboats, Marine fibreglass boats and resupply assets operating in the South China Sea, is slated to receive between $1 and $5 million in funding from Washington by June or July of this year to develop repair infrastructure to support “host nation vessels.”