Agency cuts and boosted spending: 10 biggest stories from DoD in 2018
Take a look back at this year's biggest stories from the Defense Department, from proposals to cut the Fourth Estate to attempts to streamline acquisition and t...
3. “DoD starts crackdown on more than 280,000 non-deployable troops”
In February, DoD began a new policy to crack down on the roughly 286,000 troops who are not healthy enough to go overseas. New policy put out by then-Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Robert Wilkie and was expected to affect 13 to 14 percent of the military force. The military may also begin separating a person from the service once a determination has been made that he or she will remain non-deployable for more than a year. The military does not have to wait the full year.
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