Dorothy Mills-Gregg

Dorothy Mills-Gregg reports on all aspects relating to veterans and military health care. Before reporting for Military.com and becoming obsessed with the Defense Health Agency transition, she was a city government reporter for a daily newspaper in Bakersfield, California. She has worked as a freelancer around Sacramento covering a range of issues and briefly wrote bill analyses for the Assembly Speaker's office. She is an award-winning photographer with a degree specializing in politics and national security from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

Email: Dorothy.Mills-Gregg@Monster.com

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Connecticut National Guard 192nd Military Police Battalion.

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Media outlets visit one of the many impact sites created by the recent missile attacks at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Jan. 13, 2020. (U.S. Army/Spc. Derek Mustard)

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Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy speaks at the Brookings Institution.

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Naval Air Station Jacksonville Commissary

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Hampton VA Medical Center (Image: va.gov)

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The entrance to the Minneapolis VA Hospital

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U.S Airmen from the 31st Munition Squadron and the 731st Munition Squadron

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A soldier photocopies tax documents at the Fort Bliss Tax Center.

One Casualty of the Pentagon’s Renewed Focus on Readiness: Army Tax Prep Centers

U.S. Army Europe said it's closing all 11 of its tax centers effective immediately.

Pfizer's Viagra and the company's generic version, sildenafil citrate

Tricare Panel Votes to End Coverage of Brand-Name Viagra, Cialis

Viagra, generic name sildenafil, tablets are for short-term use, while Cialis, or tadalafil, is considered "long-acting."

Puerto Rico Air National Guard, perform maintenance on a generator for the Joint Incident Site Communications Capability trailer at the command and control center in Cayey, Dec. 27, 2019.. (U.S. Army/Master Sgt. Caycee Watson)

National Guard Deploys as Puerto Rico Assesses Damage from Recent Quakes

The Puerto Rico National Guard has been activated after the strongest earthquake in a century shook the U.S. territory.

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