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Oil found in water for military families in Hawaii, Navy confirms; some residents moving to hotels
As officials flush the petroleum contaminants out of the system, some families have been offered hotel rooms; others will receive temporary lodging allowance.
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Pentagon & Congress
How extremist groups target veterans, and what can be done about it
Extremist groups might offer some familiar rhetoric to veterans.
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Positive COVID test prompts National Guard chief to self-isolate
Hokanson has held post since August 2020.
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Over 23,500 airmen and guardians say no to COVID vaccines as final deadline passes
More than 14,000 Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard members were unvaccinated as of Friday, a day after the deadline for receiving the shots.
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Biden warns Russia’s Vladimir Putin against Ukraine invasion
There are signs that the White House and Kremlin are close to arranging a conversation next week between Biden and Putin
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Marine-style barbecue? Marines add foraging class to The Basic School
At the in-the-field portion, Marines take turns butchering fish and pigs.
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Ex-State Dept. employee sentenced for embezzling $150k in travel funds for SOUTHCOM events
Roudy Pierre-Louis, 49, a Haitian citizen, was working at the Embassy of Haiti for the State Department from 2015 to 2018 when he embezzled travel funds for Defense and State Department employees headed to SOUTHCOM totaling more than $150,000.
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Veteran jobless numbers stagnant, but experts say that’s no cause for concern
The jobless rate among younger veterans saw an increase from October to November.
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Oklahoma governor, AG sue Defense Department over vaccine requirement
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt argued that the Biden administration’s defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, overstepped his constitutional authority by subjecting the National Guard to the mandate, which applies to active-duty military members.
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‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues US military academies
Some students of color have spotlighted what they see as systemic racism and discrimination at the academies by creating Instagram accounts to relate their personal experiences.
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In the annual football uniform dispute, 2021 Army trumps Navy
The game will take place on December 11, 2021.
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Senate passes stopgap funding bill, avoiding shutdown
The measure now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
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3rd military medical team sent to Michigan amid COVID surge
The nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists will assist Covenant Healthcare in Saginaw starting Dec. 12.
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The Navy hasn’t approved any religious exemptions for sailors seeking to avoid COVID-19 vaccine
As of Tuesday, the sea service had granted seven permanent medical exemptions, 400 temporary medical exemptions and 134 administrative exemptions.
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Email shutdown looms for 250,000 personnel, and the Army has no fix yet
Army G-6 officials could be running out of time to ensure junior soldiers maintain official email addresses.
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Airmen help save holiday tradition in Alaska’s largest city
It’s believed this is the first time the star hasn’t been fully lit on time.
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Air Force veteran defrauded VA of $2 million by buying, selling CPAP devices
Kevin Rumph Jr., of Fairburn, Georgia, was ordered Dec. 1 to pay $2,041,733.62 in restitution and sentenced to 27 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release.
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VA won’t fire employees for refusing the COVID vaccine until after the holidays
The deadline for some VA workers to get vaccinated passed two months ago.
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Army reports the most racist extremism cases, Marines the most anti-government
The services fielded hundreds of reports of extremism in the first nine months of this year.
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USS Harry Truman carrier strike group kicks off deployment
The Navy did not disclose where the strike group was headed, but said that it would complete operations across the globe fostering maritime security and stability.
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‘Toyotas of War’ is the photo archive we never knew we needed
Follow @ToyotasofWar on Instagram.
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Money for Afghan refugees but not military pay boost in latest federal budget plan
The budget plan would avoid a partial government shutdown set for Friday night.
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‘A matter of time’: Airman’s safety report warns CV-22 harnesses could prove fatal
The military says it stands by the harness and will continue to use it.
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US warns Russia as Kremlin talks about war threat in Ukraine
“The probability of hostilities in Ukraine still remains high,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a conference call with reporters.
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US defense chief slams China’s drive for hypersonic weapons
How should Washington and its partners contain a Chinese military that is strengthening as it pursues an end of American dominance in Asia?
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US military explosives vanish, emerge in civilian world
Explosives have been found in homes and storage units, inside military barracks and alongside roads, even at a US-Mexico border checkpoint.
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