The Pentagon is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars for mental health and suicide prevention programs, among others. The Navy's budget request beefs up a variety of mental health initiatives. The Navy's fiscal 2025 budget request prioritizes near-term readiness and lethality and delays a number of larger, longer-term modernization programs. A Reddit user claiming to be a sailor said ChatGPT helped to complete the dreaded annual performance evaluation. Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Feb. 12, 2024. The initiative is part of Big Navy's efforts to improve sailor quality of life. You'll never catch a Navy veteran rinsing out their coffee mug. Aviation Electronics Technician Airman Michael Y. Yang was lifeguarding when he noticed a boy struggling in a rip current. An internal audit reveals the service has struggled to ensure sailors are getting suicide training and has failed to track suicide-related behaviors. A sprawling, multiyear effort to modernize sailor HR systems has instead led to lots of pain in the fleet. Load More