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A new Defense Department task force will look for ways to further limit diversity and inclusion programs throughout military training and advancement.

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• Hegseth moves to ban race, sex consideration from military promotions *
  A new Defense Department task force will look for ways to further limit diversity and inclusion programs throughout military training and advancement. Read More

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• In 12 years, almost no takers for Marines’ career intermission program *
  After a dozen years, fewer than half of the spots available from the program's first year alone have been claimed. Read More

• Air Force demoted two-star after affair, ‘voluminous’ sexting, IG says *
  Then-Maj. Gen. Christopher Finerty slept with a married DOD employee and fraternized with an enlisted airman by repeatedly sexting her, the IG found. Read More

• VA benefits won’t be halted under White House funding freeze order *
  White House officials said VA financial assistance programs do not violate rules banning diversity and inclusion efforts. Read More
   

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• Air Force reinstates course with Tuskegee Airmen video after outcry *
  The Air Force pulled the course for review last week following the Trump administration's sweeping order barring diversity programs. Read More

• Trump signs order to revise Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops *
  Trump on Monday also ordered troops to be reinstated who had left voluntarily or been booted for refusing COVID-19 vaccines, among other changes. Read More

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• All of DOD exempt from White House’s civilian hiring freeze * Hiring for vacant positions in commissaries, child care centers, schools and everywhere else within DOD can continue, two memorandums show. Read More   * Federal military spouse workers ‘should’ be able to continue remotely * "We're trying to calm a whole community," said one military spouse advocate who's looking for answers. Read More  

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