Their Relatives Were Black Heroes. They Fear the Military Won't Celebrate Their Stories Anymore. When Tarence Bailey Sr. received a formal memo from the Maryland National Guard declining to support a celebration for...
Naval Academy Nixes Classes, Topics as Full Scope of Trump Diversity Ban Remains Unknown The Navy is also taking more of its training programs offline -- the latest in a series of quiet reviews, policy changes and...
No Flyover or Band for Frederick Douglass Celebration. Maryland Guard Says It Violates Pentagon Policy. A formal memo from the Maryland National Guard's Joint Operations Center, dated Feb. 7, said the reserve component would be...
Biography of Civil War Veteran Banned as Military Schools Cull Books and Lessons Under Trump Orders A review of content taught at the Department of Defense Education Activity schools has resulted in restrictions of lessons on...
Airman Promotion Test to Tech Sergeant Delayed as Air Force Combs Documents for Subjects Banned by Trump The testing cycle, which was scheduled to begin Saturday and go through April 15, will be pushed back to March 3 and will...
Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event Until this week, Army Recruiting Command had a public partnership with the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, or BEYA, an...
Air Force Nixes Officer Applicant Diversity Goals as Directed by Trump's Executive Orders The Department of the Air Force will no longer set ambitious goals to diversify the officer applicant pool.
Tuskegee Airman and Legendary World War II Fighter Pilot Harry Stewart Dies at 100 Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single...
West Point Eliminates Student Clubs Related to Gender or Race After Trump Order The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has axed at least a dozen extracurricular clubs geared toward women and minority...
Handbook Used by Airmen to Study for Promotions Removed Due to Trump's Diversity Order Air Force Handbook 1, the primary 600-plus-page study document used by enlisted airmen to score well for the Weighted Airman...
Fired: Joint Chiefs Chairman, Top Navy Leader, Air Force Vice Chief, Service Judge Advocates General In a historic and unprecedented move, the Trump administration on Friday night fired the Joint Chiefs chairman, the Navy's...
Thousands of Pentagon Civilian Workers Will Be Fired Next Week as Trump Purge Begins The massive round of firings is part of an "initial effort" to cut the Defense Department's civilian workforce by 5% to 8%...
VA Crisis Line Employees Among Those Fired Amid Federal Workforce Purge Of the 1,000 employees fired last week from the Department of Veterans Affairs, some were employees who had worked for the...
What's in Store for VA Disability Benefits with New Office of Management and Budget Chief? New OMB Director Russell Vought has contributed to two conservative playbooks that advocate for the revamping of veterans'...
Fort Moore Was Named After My Parents. A Letter Mom Wrote Shows Why It Shouldn’t Go Back to Benning My Dad was a commander in the Vietnam War. My Mom changed how the military cares for widows.
