AUSTIN, Texas — The sexual harassment that Spc. Vanessa Guillen faced before her death last year from a noncommissioned officer at Fort Hood wasn’t an isolated incident. There had been four other complaints filed against her platoon sergeant for his mistreatment of subordinates, yet leaders continued to move him and keep him in charge of soldiers, …

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military must widen opportunity and improve advancement for Black service members, who remain vastly underrepresented in some areas, including among Air Force pilots and in the most senior ranks, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday. Army Gen. Mark Milley told a Howard University ROTC commissioning ceremony …

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Iran’s propaganda machine has produced a new bellicose song to serve as background music for video scenes of a missile destroying the U.S. Capitol. “We will destroy the palace of oppression,” say the lyrics, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) released Wednesday. The video debuted Sunday on state-owned Channel …

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The Pentagon is moving the civilian head of special operations back under the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, partially undoing a move late in the Trump administration to elevate that role. But, according to a memo signed Wednesday by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and …

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