The Defense Department has temporarily halted a popular employment assistance program for military spouses while it conducts a “top-to-bottom” review of its services, officials said last week.

The U.S. Coast Guard stands ready to confront current and future challenges, said Adm. Thad W. Allen, commandant of the service.

The ban on using USB devices on military computers remains, for now, in the Army - despite a partial lift of the original ban by U.S. Strategic Command.

More than 100 Soldiers and Airmen from the District of Columbia National Guard were on duty Friday and Saturday, supporting the district’s emergency response to a weekend blizzard.

Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh and Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. announced Friday that the Army is taking steps to increase funding by $500 million for Base Operating Support in fiscal 2010.

Leading all other U.S. federal agencies, the DoD announced Feb. 3 it collected $17.2 million in last year’s annual federal fundraising campaign, a record-breaking sum of charitable donations to groups operating in Haiti and other areas where needs exist.

Military children are one of the many groups poised to benefit from President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget request.

Because unpredictable factors can affect the cost-of-living allowance many servicemembers stationed overseas receive as a supplement to their normal pay, DoD officials want servicemembers to be aware the allowance can fluctuate rapidly and without warning.

Soldiers from the Iraqi Army’s 3rd Brigade, 8th Division, listened intently at Combat Outpost Hamiyah, Iraq, as they received instruction from U.S. Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division’s 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates Wednesday established a DoD panel to prepare the military for the potential elimination of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which bans openly gay people from serving in the armed forces.