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Defense

Continuing resolution, COVID causing personnel issues for military services

The mixture of COVID and the addition of a new branch of the military are making this year’s CR particularly challenging for the military service personnel chiefs.

Navy

Navy has fewer vaccinated sailors than previously reported, but still over 97%

Defense

The Marine Corps has not granted any religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine

Air Force

Airmen and guardians will be stuck at current orders until they are vaccinated or exempted

Defense

Missing military tenant bill of rights provisions to be finished next month

Defense

Military suicides increased in all components in 2020

DoD Reporter's Notebook

IG: Pentagon disregarded auditors, overpaid contractors by as much as $97M

An MQ-9A Reaper assigned to the 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron sits on the ramp at Creech Air Force Base carrying eight Hellfire missiles. This was the first flight test of the MQ-9 carrying eight Hellfire missiles.

(U.S. Air Force photo by SrA Haley Stevens)

Air Force

Air Force offering airmen a chance to leave service early in attempt to balance the force

190828-N-UY653-0129rBOSTON (Aug. 28, 2019) Chief petty officer selects, Sailors who have been selected for the paygrade of E-7, participate in a mast climbing evolution during Chief Heritage week aboard the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, USS Constitution. During the selectees week spent aboard Constitution, Sailors teach them a variety of time-honored maritime evolutions while living and working aboard the ship. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik/Released)

Navy

High retention leaves the Navy wondering what its future force will look like

Air Force

Air Force

Forty Air Force occupations will lose reenlistment bonus eligibility

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2020, file photo sunlight shines on the U.S. Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden wants to “restore the soul of America.” First, he'll need to fix a broken and divided Congress. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Congress abolishes DoD's top management position without settling on alternative

Todd Benson

Air Force

Air Force filling its employment holes, looking to improve leadership

In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019 and released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Devin Boyer, 435th Air Expeditionary Wing photojournalist, salutes the flag during a ceremony signifying the change from tactical to enduring operations at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. The al-Shabab extremist group said Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 that it has attacked the Camp Simba military base used by U.S. and Kenyan troops in coastal Kenya, while Kenya's military says the attempted pre-dawn breach was repulsed and at least four attackers were killed. (Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Air Force

'Families and support systems are ALWAYS on the back burner!' Air Force sees spike in suicides in 2019

Air Force

Air Force

Air Force making final preps to reform officer promotion system

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Christopher Chadwell, left, performs a propeller hydraulic fluid level check while Staff Sgt. William Aker does an engine inlet inspection on a C-130E Hercules aircraft at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia Aug.11, 2010. Both Airmen are assigned to the 386th Expeditionary Maintenance Group. (DoD photo by Senior Airman Laura Turner, U.S. Air Force/Released)

Reporter's Notebook

Air Force working with OPM to hire civilians faster

Federal Drive

Maj. Gen. Brian Kelly: Air Force implementing new personnel policies for an agile service