Defense
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The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet says it will launch a new task force that incorporates airborne, sailing and underwater drones after years of maritime attacks linked to ongoing tensions with Iran
September 08, 2021 -
Military service members must immediately begin to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says in a memo Wednesday, ordering service leaders to “impose ambitious timelines for implementation.”
August 25, 2021 -
The Pentagon says it will require service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine now that the Pfizer vaccine has received full approval
August 23, 2021 -
U.S. Naval Academy officials announced Friday that 18 midshipmen have been expelled and another 82 sanctioned after an investigation into cheating on an online physics exam in December
August 20, 2021 -
Members of the U.S. military will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine beginning next month under a plan laid out by the Pentagon Monday and endorsed by President Joe Biden
August 09, 2021 -
The Pentagon says one of its police officers has died after being stabbed during a burst of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect was shot by law enforcement and died at the scene
August 03, 2021 -
A new study finds that female soldiers at Army bases in Texas, Colorado, Kansas and Kentucky face a greater risk of sexual assault and harassment than those at other posts, accounting for more than a third of all active duty Army women sexually assaulted in 2018
June 18, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, with vaccine rates lagging among some members of the armed forces, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is reportedly weighing whether or not to make it mandatory.
June 16, 2021 -
An Associated Press investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen over the last decade
June 15, 2021 -
Former President Donald Trump’s signature border wall project would lose much of its funding as well as the fast-track status that enabled it to bypass environmental regulations under a new Biden administration plan
June 11, 2021 -
An Air Force base in San Antonio was placed on lockdown for about an hour after military officials said gunfire was reported near a gate to the base
June 09, 2021 -
An inspector general's report says an Arkansas veterans hospital's poor oversight caused it to miss the errors of a pathologist who was fired for being impaired on duty and later pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter
June 02, 2021 -
Christine Wormuth has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate to be the first female secretary of the Army
May 27, 2021 -
CNN says the Trump administration Justice Department secretly obtained the 2017 phone records of a CNN correspondent
May 20, 2021 -
California’s Vandenberg Air Force Basehas been renamed as a U.S. Space Force Base
May 14, 2021