Opinion

Editorials, guest commentaries, Medals and Misfires. Active-duty, reserve, Guard, veterans, Capitol Hill and the Pentagon.


  • Editorial: Valid Ebola concerns

    More than 500 U.S. troops are in Liberia, conducting humanitarian missions in response to the Ebola epidemic. Nearly…

  • Editorial: Improving the PFA

    The sailors who run the Navy’s fitness programs are about to get a boost they’ve long wanted: a Navy enlisted classif…

  • Editorial: Realistic expectations

    One week after the Air Force reluctantly acknowledged a mix-up that led 1,000 airmen to believe they were eligible fo…

  • Editorial: Realistic expectations

    One week after the Air Force reluctantly acknowledged a mix-up that led 1,000 airmen to believe they were eligible for benefits that they really weren’t due, the service posted a memo saying officials were ‘actively working to identify any inconsistencies

  • Editorial: Change unfair IRR rules

    The Navy Reserve this month imposed up-or-out rules on sailors in the Individual Ready Reserve. These caps, already …

  • Editorial: Dunford and his Marines

    Congratulations to Gen. Joseph Dunford, who on Oct. 17 assumed his new post as the 36th commandant of the Marine Corp…

  • Editorial: A new fast food dilemma

    A long-overdue hike in the federal minimum wage should be nothing but good news.

  • Editorial: Who’s kidding whom?
    Editorial: Who’s kidding whom?

    The next time you hear a four-star whine to Congress about how military pay and benefits are wreaking havoc on the de…

  • Late-night: Is the U.S. involved in the iPhone 6 of wars?
    Late-night: Is the U.S. involved in the iPhone 6 of wars?

    Two late-night comedians – Jon Stewart and David Letterman – offered their analyses Tuesday night of what has happene…

  • Letters to the editor: Security Forces Museum
    Letters to the editor: Security Forces Museum

    As a retired security forces member, it came as a total shock when I read the Security Forces Museum was being closed…