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New campaign asks service members to share stories to push sexual assault reforms farther

Members of the military and vets are sharing their experiences on social media.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2022 for the Department of Defense in Washington on Thursday, June 17, 2021. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP)

Military leaders push back on taking crimes out of chain of command

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Second stage of Chinese telecom ban producing unintended consequences

DoD Reporter's Notebook

14 Fort Hood soldiers fired, suspended over violence at base

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Pentagon reports $5B in improper payments to civilian workforce

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Army will now assume soldiers are missing and not AWOL after multiple deaths this summer

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FILE- In this April 23, 2020, file photo a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak is shown in San Antonio. Compounding the hardships of coronavirus, some nursing homes have demanded that low-income residents turn over their $1,200 economic stimulus checks. On Tuesday, June 9, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on the Health and Human Services inspector general's office to issue a warning to nursing homes and assisted living facilities that such practices are “improper and unlawful.” (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

PRAC details how it plans to monitor coronavirus stimulus funds

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Army is taking limited steps to counter racial divisiveness

Army

Navy testing entire carrier’s crew for coronavirus after more diagnoses

Defense

Staff inspect medical equipments at an emergency hospital set up amid the new coronavirus outbreak in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, March 23, 2020. Indonesia has changed towers built to house athletes in the 2018 Asian Games to emergency hospitals with a 3,000-bed capacity in the country's hard-hit capital, where new patients have surged in the past week. (Hafidz Mubarak A/Pool Photo via AP)

Agencies get more hiring flexibilities to help with coronavirus response

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Army creating long-term plan to fix housing issues

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Army’s new assessment of battalion commanders candidates is underway

The Army is starting its new process for evaluating soldiers to command battalions based on a multitude of factors including physical fitness, subordinate…

Army

Military considering dropping some housing contractors after botched mold cleanup

The military services are getting fed up with housing contractors that are not cleaning up issues with service members’ homes.

Defense

Pfc. Michael Roberts and Pvt. Nicholas Brown, cavalry scouts for Charlie Troop, 1st Squadron, 82nd Cavalry Regiment navigate rough eastern Washington terrain on foot while conducting dismounted zone reconnaissance training at the Yakima Training Center in Yakima, Wash., June 25, 2019. The training is part of a large-scale exercise known as eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC), which focuses on improving individual and team skillsets, decision making, equipment familiarization, and deployment readiness. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Jennifer Lena, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

Army’s new personnel strategy will be reliant on data to make change

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The Army is taking in vast amounts of information on its soldiers to place them in their most fitting jobs.