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Force Fitness Instructor (FFI) Trainers demonstrate proper pull-up technique for the class of FFI students before executing practical application as part of their course requirement at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, October 3, 2016. The FFI course is made up of physical training, classroom instruction and practical application to provide the students with a holistic approach to fitness. Upon completion, the Marines will return to serve as unit FFIs, capable of designing individual and unit-level holistic fitness programs.

Quiz: What does the VA health record have in common with a Marine Corps T-shirt?

The Marines obsess over something simple like a PT uniform while VA sweats bullets over its electronic health record.

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Time for feds to get back to the office

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Whether on rotary or smart phone, citizens want to call you

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News got you down? Look at the good people

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The big secret of high-performing agencies

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A USPS of the Woolworths era tries to compete in the age of Amazon

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NAPA’s OPM findings make too much sense for today’s Washington

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Happy crappy anniversary

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FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2021 file photo, frozen vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are taken out to thaw, at the MontLegia CHC hospital in Liege, Belgium. The European Commission has secured an agreement with Pfizer-BioNTech for an extra 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to tackle a surge of coronavirus clusters that have prompted border restrictions. The doses are expected to be delivered before the end of March. The EU's executive arm is worried by the worsening situation in several areas, mainly due to the spread of new variants. It also does not want virus clusters to prompt more border restrictions. The EU has cited Tyrol in Austria, Nice and Moselle in France, Bolzano in Italy and some parts of Bavaria and Saxony in Germany as places where COVID-19 hospitalizations have been on the rise. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Government vaccine customer experience a mixed bag

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On the High Risk List? That doesn’t make you a horrible person

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How to diversify and include? Hint: It starts with you

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Here’s a three-step program for beleaguered feds

“Go forth, do the people’s business, and be kind to one another,” says a retired fed.

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FILE - This Wednesday, May 13, 2020, file photo made with a fisheye lens shows a list of the confirmed COVID-19 cases in Salt Lake County early in the coronavirus pandemic at the county health department in Salt Lake City. Health officials later moved to tracking the cases in an online database, but the white board remains in the office as a reminder of how quickly the coronavirus spread. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

It’s a fact: Government relies on statistics

Statistical agencies say they need a little TLC so that the nation continues to have accurate facts.

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FILE - This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twitter is enlisting its users to help combat misinformation on its service by flagging and notating misleading and false tweets. The pilot program unveiled Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 called Birdwatch, allows a preselected group of users — for now, only in the U.S. — who sign up through Twitter. Those who want to sign up must have a U.S.-based phone carrier, verified email and phone number, and no recent Twitter rule violations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

How tweets poison a leader from the get-go

OMB nominee Neera Tanden learns the hard way how being anti on social media can come back to bite.

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