Military.com

Military.com is a commercial military-news and benefits-information website for U.S. service members, veterans, and their families — not a government source. It publishes daily military news, benefits guides (pay, GI Bill, VA, Tricare), career and transition resources, and community content, and is operated by Iron Corp US Inc., a subsidiary of the Canadian media company Valnet.

What it is

Military.com describes itself as a news and information hub covering all U.S. military branches, plus personal-finance tools (VA loans, insurance, credit cards), benefits guides (military pay, GI Bill, Tricare, retirement), career services (a veteran job board and skills translator), and lifestyle content (base guides, discounts, ASVAB prep). It states it reaches over 2 million newsletter subscribers monthly and more than 6 million site visitors per year. As a commercial secondary source, it is useful for awareness and general-audience explainers, not as an authoritative citation for regulatory or program details — logisticians should confirm any benefits or program specifics against the issuing .mil/.gov agency.

Who operates it

Military.com was founded in 1999. It was acquired by Monster Worldwide in 2004, and Monster Worldwide was later acquired by Randstad Holding. Following a 2025 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Monster's then-parent (the CareerBuilder + Monster joint venture), Military.com and the affiliated FastWeb.com were sold in July 2025 to Valnet, a Canadian digital media company, for approximately $27.25 million; the acquiring entity is a Valnet subsidiary named Iron Corp US Inc. The site's official contact page lists Iron Corp US Inc. at 7901 4th St N #8397, St. Petersburg, FL 33702 as the operating company.

Access

Military.com is a free, publicly accessible website; no CAC, account, or subscription is required to read news and benefits content. Some interactive features (e.g., saved searches, newsletter preferences) may prompt account creation, but this is not required for the site's core informational content. Customer support and content-related requests (including take-down requests) are handled through a ticketing form rather than a published support email or phone line.

How logisticians use it

Military logisticians and service members may use Military.com as a general-news and benefits-awareness resource — for example, to track defense-policy headlines, PCS/relocation and base-guide information, or plain-language explainers of pay and benefits changes. It is not a system-of-record, regulatory, or logistics-data tool, and it should not be cited as authority for program rules, NSNs, codes, or regulations; those determinations belong to the issuing .mil/.gov source.

History & lineage

Military.com was founded in 1999 by a veteran to streamline service members' access to defense and benefits information. Ownership passed from its founders to Monster Worldwide (2004), then to Randstad Holding as Monster's parent, and then to Apollo Global Management-linked ownership after a CareerBuilder–Monster restructuring. That joint venture's June 2025 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing led to the July 2025 sale of Military.com and FastWeb.com to Valnet through its Iron Corp US Inc. subsidiary. Trade press (Columbia Journalism Review) reported that the site's unionized newsroom — roughly 17 staff producing an estimated 12–14 million monthly page views before the sale — lost 14 of those staffers to layoffs in September and October 2025, with a shift toward higher-volume, lower-cost contractor-produced content; this is reported context from journalism trade coverage, not a government record, and is included here for lineage only.

Related systems

Military.com is a commercial adjacent resource, not an official logistics or benefits system. For authoritative benefits and services information, logisticians should use the issuing agency's own site (e.g., the Department of Veterans Affairs for VA benefits, or Military OneSource for DoD-run family and transition support) rather than a third-party news aggregator.