Advocates praised defense leaders for excluding shipyard workers and other key readiness jobs from a department-wide hiring freeze.
"We're trying to calm a whole community," said one military spouse advocate who's looking for answers.
Hiring for vacant positions in commissaries, child care centers, schools and everywhere else within DOD can continue, two memorandums show.
About two-thirds of Veterans Affairs jobs will be excluded from a White House order blocking new hiring.
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