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Commandant’s Reading List includes books about female Marines for the first time ― but is it enough?
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The Marine Corps overhauled the Commandant’s Reading List in 2020 in a modernization effort to become more relevant to the modern-day Marine. As part of the process, the Corps...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Air Force takes steps to clear path for women’s advancement
When Alexandra Jackson joined the West Virginia Air National Guard in 2018, she was looking forward to becoming a pilot with the 167th Airlift Wing, like her father. But at 5-...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Army will encourage urgency to find missing soldiers after high-profile disappearances
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The Army is planning to introduce a policy calling for more urgency in finding missing soldiers, top leaders said, after a handful of high-profile disappearances at Fort Hood ...
By Kayla M. Williams
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US military draws a line: No more bias against pregnant soldiers
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One day shortly after Lt. Col. Jessica Ruttenber went back to work as an Air Force pilot following the birth of her first child in 2011, the controls on her jet started malfun...
By Kayla M. Williams
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The rise of female commanders in combat arms
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The Army has been slowly integrating women into ground combat units since the Defense Department opened all military jobs to all troops in 2015. The initiative garnered a good...
By Kayla M. Williams
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‘The military failed him’: Soldier’s bones found months after he was labeled a deserter
Since the remains of Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales were discovered in a shallow grave outside Fort Hood last month, the mystery of his disappearance has only intensified. The Ar...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Military branches were set to cut nearly 18,000 medical workers. Coronavirus brought that to a halt.
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The agencies that oversee the health of U.S. military personnel and veterans were pushing ahead this spring with the biggest overhaul of their health systems in three decades....
By Kayla M. Williams
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Inspector general to probe whether VA chief Wilkie tried to discredit Democratic aide who reported sexual assault
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The Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general has opened an investigation into allegations that Secretary Robert Wilkie tried to dig up dirt on an aide to a top Democr...
By Kayla M. Williams
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How to Enroll in VA Health Care
If you are a veteran who served in active duty for at least 24 consecutive months and were honorably discharged, you're eligible to enroll in health care from the U.S. Departm...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Why leaving the military is harder for female vets
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When she left the military in 2005, Jodie M. Grenier went from being on a team of intelligence analysts reporting to then-Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis, with a top security cle...
By Kayla M. Williams
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VA Expands Vets' Access To Private Care But Gives No Plan To Pay For It
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The VA Mission Act passed into law with broad bipartisan support last year, but that unity began to wane immediately, when President Trump signaled after signing it that he wo...
By Kayla M. Williams
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VA Approves Fewer Male Veterans' Claims for PTSD Related to Sexual Trauma
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The Department of Veterans Affairs approves claims for post-traumatic stress disorder related to military sexual assault at significantly lower rates for men than women -- a g...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Trump rankles veterans with comments about PTSD and California shooter
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Some veterans and mental-health advocates bristled at President Trump’s comments regarding the Thousand Oaks shooter and post-traumatic stress disorder, saying such broad-base...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Researchers Find Transgender Veterans Are as Healthy as Their Cisgender Peers
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“The navy was something I always wanted to do, ever since I saw the Blue Angels as a little kid,” Chief Petty Officer Sarah Sardinha tells me. “I knew I wanted to work on figh...
By Kayla M. Williams
