NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – A U.S. Navy SEAL has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the hazing death of a U.S. Army Green Beret while the men served together in Africa. The SEAL’s attorney said he plans to appeal the punishment. Tony DeDolph received the sentence Saturday from a jury …

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President Biden on Monday signed an executive order to remove restrictions on transgender Americans joining the military, reversing a controversial Trump-era Pentagon policy. Mr. Biden’s order comes just days after new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who expressed support for reversing the transgender policy, assumed control at the Pentagon. The move was long expected to be …

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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden has brought back Dr. Kevin O’Connor as his physician, replacing President Donald Trump‘s doctor with the one who oversaw his care when he was vice president. The White House confirmed that Dr. Sean Conley, the Navy commander who served as the head of the White House Medical Unit under …

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Afghanistan veteran and former Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y. — the Pentagon’s new “COVID-19 coordinator — joined Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last Friday for their first meeting with the service chiefs and combatant commanders on efforts to control the pandemic. Rose’s appointment to the newly created post of “Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense — …

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