A team of Navy civilians and contractors are testing new galley equipment and food recipes for ships and submarines at a lab in Natick, Mass.

Just as civilians can now purchase MREs to eat as emergency rations, some of the food in your pantry today was once field rations. Innovation in food processing and preservation methods that began in ...

The government shutdown has surpassed one week and has put federal workers and military families in a financial bind, with food pantries in some portions of the country experiencing 30% upticks in ...

After hundreds of military families visited a free food distribution event, the shelves at the Five Star Food Market inside the Armed Services YMCA Killeen's location in Harker Heights, Texas, sit ...

The Armed Services YMCA is seeing a 30%-75% surge in demand nationwide. Food banks are seeing a surge of demand across the country as the government shutdown weathers its fourth week – and military ...

Bashtye Bailey stood beneath the warm October sun at a food bank for military families near Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval base. She waited her turn for a supply of fresh vegetables, ...

Thousands of military families won’t receive federal food assistance next month as the government shutdown impacts funding to fight food insecurity. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said that it ...

A man walks near the U.S. Capitol, where a political stalemate pushes the federal government shutdown into its second week. More than 250,000 federal employees missed their scheduled paychecks this ...

Alicia Blevins’s husband, Nathaniel, brings home $3,200 a month as a Marine corporal at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. By the time the couple is done making their car payment, plus dealing with ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Claire Gunnison wanted to be an astronaut growing up. She decided that one of the ...

Adam LaZarre never expected the U.S. Navy to prepare him for working with wine. The former electronics technician, however, credits his military service with giving him the discipline and ...

MARYSVILLE, Wash. — The medals gleaming in Chief Warrant Officer 2 Christine Stanley's display case tells only part of her story. Earned at the prestigious IKA Culinary Olympics in Germany, it ...