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Marine Corps completes ‘wall-to-wall’ barracks inspection. Here’s what’s next

The Marine Corps recently completed its service-wide barracks inspection. Now it can finally get after the problems that have plagued barracks for decades.

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DoD has ‘a lot of work to do’ to fix military housing

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Defense Department sites are rife with poisons in nearby groundwater

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Meet the small team that handles the Air Force’s radioactive waste

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FILE - In this Friday, July 30, 2004 file photo, the U.S.S. Virginia returns to the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton Conn., after its first sea trials. A Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, the Justice Department said Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Jack Sauer, File)

House readiness panel ‘not messing around’ on deteriorating DoD depots

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FILE - This evidence photo from the criminal complaint of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts v. Ashley Bigsbee for illegal possession of a stolen firearm on Nov. 15, 2015, in Suffolk, Mass., shows one of ten M11 semiautomatic handguns that former Army Reserve member James Morales stole from the Lincoln Stoddard Army Reserve Center in Worcester, Mass. Overall, AP has found that at least 2,000 firearms from the Army, Marines, Navy or Air Force were lost or stolen during the 2010s. (U.S. District Court for Massachusetts via AP)

Congress plans fixes for US military’s AWOL weapons problems

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How the Army plans to deal with ‘tons’ of stuff brought back from Afghanistan

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Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, gives an opening statement during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss vaccines and protecting public health during the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

One of the nation’s top public health officials is calling it a career

In today’s Federal Newscast, Dr. Francis Collins says he’ll leave his post as director of the National Institutes of Health by the end of the year.

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Agencies looking for industry ideas on tracking vaccinations among their employees

In today’s Federal Newscast, federal agencies are looking for private sector ideas on collecting vaccine information for their employees.

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FILE - This Jan. 4, 2020 file photo shows a sign for at Fort Bragg, N.C. The push to remove Confederate names from Pentagon properties, including storied Army posts, could eventually affect hundreds of items and facilities, the chair of the congressionally chartered Naming Commission said Friday, May 21, 2021. The initial public focus was on Army bases such as Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is named for Confederate general Braxton Bragg, and Fort Benning, Georgia, named for Brig. Gen. Henry L. Benning, who served under Lee. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)

Defense Department seeking public input for renaming bases that honor Confederate leaders

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In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is changing the names of some of its most high profile bases and it wants the public’s help.

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