President Joe Biden said Friday he would leave it up to the Defense Department to decide whether the COVID-19 vaccine should be mandatory for U.S. troops once it receives full approval from the Food and Drug Administration. In an interview with NBC’s Today Show on Friday, Biden said it’s a “tough call” on whether it …
More than 450 Marines’ careers have been affected by a forcewide redesign that launched last year as the Corps reorganizes to take on new threats, sending hundreds into new career fields, early retirement, or even Army tank units. Commandant Gen. David Berger issued his first annual update to the forcewide redesign he announced in March …
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Maj. Alivia Stehlik’s fears that transgender soldiers would be kicked out of the Army faded Friday as former President Donald Trump’s regulations were overturned. Those who meet military standards are once again allowed to enlist and serve openly. But the policy change — announced in March by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and …
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A long-awaited Army report on the disappearance and death of Spc. Vanessa Guillén last year will confirm that she was being sexually harassed, just not by the man accused of killing her, Task & Purpose has learned. The report, put together by Gen. John “Mike” Murray, the commander of Army Futures Command who was appointed …
The findings of the Marine Corps investigation of the July 30, 2020 sinking of an Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV) that resulted in the deaths of eight Marines and a Navy corpsman are gut-wrenching. On the first page of the 63-page report, it states that “a confluence of human and mechanical failures caused the sinking of …
