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In this May 11, 2017, file photo, members of a design team at Cirque du Soleil demonstrate use of Microsoft's HoloLens device in helping to virtually design a set at the Microsoft Build 2017 developers conference in Seattle. Microsoft says it has won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its virtual reality headsets. Microsoft announced the deal Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Microsoft wins $22 billion deal making headsets for US Army

By MATT O'BRIEN - Associated Press

In this March 13, 2013 photo, Maj. Gen. Paul LaCamera, new Commanding General of the 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson to LaCamera is photographed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo. Preparing for peace is a major shift for LaCamera and his soldiers. The general was among the first American combat troops into Afghanistan in 2001. In the years since, he and Fort Carson's nearly 25,000 other troops have been commuting to war, with all-too-brief stops at home between fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Mark Reis) MAGS OUT

Army defends its role in Indo-Pacific struggle for influence

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

On Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, a U.S. Army soldier walks past military Humvees that are to be shipped out of Iraq from a staging yard at Camp Sather, part of the sprawling U.S. military's Victory Base Complex in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) ** FILE **

U.S. Army, Muslim civil rights groups at odds over Islam-to-Christianity conversion story

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Navy SEALs in action. (U.S. Navy photo)

Special Operations Command gets 1st diversity chief

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A female U.S. Army recruit exercise before dawn at Ft. Benning, Ga., on Oct. 4, 2017. The Army’s introduction of women into the infantry has moved steadily but cautiously this year. As home to the previously all-male infantry and armor schools, Fort Benning had to make a number of adjustments, including female dorm rooms, security cameras, monitoring stations. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Army pulls the pin on ‘gender neutral’ combat fitness test; creates separate tiers for men, women

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2019, file photo, U.S Army troops training to serve as instructors participate in the new Army combat fitness test at the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade compound at Fort Bragg, N.C. Army leaders are kicking out the requirement that soldiers do at least one leg tuck as part of the new physical fitness test, after finding many troops — particularly women — were unable to do the exercise that requires them to raise their knees while hanging from a bar. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Army revamps fitness exam, kicks out leg tuck requirement

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Flowers and signs are displayed at a makeshift memorial outside of the Gold Spa in Atlanta, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Police in the Atlanta suburb of Gwinnett County say they've begun extra patrols in and around Asian businesses there following the shooting at three massage parlors in the area that killed eight, most of them women of Asian descent. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Slain spa workers and customers mourned by families

By Associated Press - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Free Burma Rangers, members of the humanitarian group Free Burma Rangers carry out medical checkups on villagers in the northern Karen State, Myanmar Feb. 25, 2021. The group has been bringing aid to some of the 8,000 ethnic people forced to flee their homes by an ongoing local offensive by the Myanmar army aimed at increasing the military’s presence in the remote region. (Free Burma Rangers via AP)

In Myanmar’s hinterland, army uproots ethnic Karen villagers

By JERRY HARMER - Associated Press

Mexican president gives navy part of southern rail-port

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Flowers and signs are displayed at a makeshift memorial outside of the Gold Spa in Atlanta, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Police in the Atlanta suburb of Gwinnett County say they've begun extra patrols in and around Asian businesses there following the shooting at three massage parlors in the area that killed eight, most of them women of Asian descent. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

New mom, Army vet among 8 killed in Georgia spa shootings

By RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press

In this June 27, 2019, photo. Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, a former Army Special Forces soldier, leaves the Fort Bragg courtroom facility with his civilian lawyer, Phillip Stackhouse, right, after an arraignment hearing. President Donald Trump has pardoned a former U.S. Army commando set to stand trial next year in the killing of a suspected Afghan bomb-maker and for a former Army lieutenant who had been convicted of murder after he ordered his men to fire upon three Afghans, killing two, the White House announced late Friday. (Andrew Craft/The Fayetteville Observer via AP) **FILE**

Army won’t return medals to Green Beret pardoned by Trump

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 6, 2012, photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, soldiers assigned to 6th Engineer Battalion use snow shoes during Arctic Light Individual Training on the Bulldog Trail in sub-zero conditions at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. ALIT is the United States Army Alaska's Cold Weather Indoctrination program. It gives all soldiers, regardless of their job, the foundation to successfully work, train, and go to war in some of the harshest environments in the world. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Justin Connaher) **FILE**

Army aims for ‘Arctic dominance’ over Russia

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Monda, Feb. 22, 2021 photo released by the U.S. Army, Sgt. Taylor Knueven pitches an idea to better the U.S. Army's Sexual Harassment and Assault and Prevention Program to a panel at Fort Bragg, N.C. Knueven shared her own story of assault during the &quot;Dragon's Lair&quot; panel. The 18th Airborne Corps says they plan to implement parts of all seven pitches heard at the presentation. (Sgt. Marygian D. Barnes/U.S. Army via AP)

US Army crowdsources ideas to combat sexual assault crisis

By SARAH BLAKE MORGAN - Associated Press

2 hurt when Army helicopter crashes at Alabama base

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In this Aug. 21, 2015, file photo, Army 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, center, and Capt. Kristen Griest, right, pose for photos with other female West Point alumni after an Army Ranger school graduation ceremony at Fort Benning, Ga. In a Feb. 25, 2021 essay for West Point's Modern War Institute, Capt. Griest said the Army shouldn't go back to the old system where men and women were graded differently on PT tests. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) **FILE**

Kristen Griest, female Ranger School graduate: Don’t lower PT standards for women in Army

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Keeping the Abrams tanks up to speed is becoming more of a challenge as the military prepares to contend with powerful and sophisticated rivals such as China and Russia. (Associated Press)

Army eyes Lockheed Martin to protect tanks with Modular Active Protection System

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

An anti-coup protester holds a placard requesting military action against Myanmar military in Yangon, Myanmar Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. Protesters against the military's seizure of power in Myanmar were back on the streets of cities and towns on Thursday as regional diplomatic efforts to resolve Myanmar's political crisis intensified Wednesday. (AP Photo)

Pro-military marchers in Myanmar attack anti-coup protesters

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The Black Experience: The story of a woman on Fort Bragg

By RACHAEL RILEY and The Fayetteville Observer - Associated Press

In this Feb. 9, 2021, photo provided by the Department of Defense, Hickam 15th Medical Group host the first COVID-19 mass vaccination on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. (U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Anthony Nelson Jr./Department of Defense via AP) **FILE**

Thousands of service members saying no to COVID-19 vaccine

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Demonstrators display pictures of detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Security forces in Myanmar pointed guns toward anti-coup protesters and attacked them with sticks Monday, seeking to quell the large-scale demonstrations calling for the military junta that seized power this month to reinstate the elected government. (AP Photo)

Myanmar police file new charge against Aung San Suu Kyi

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