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FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2019, file photo, U.S Army troops in training to become 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)

Pentagon politicization: Talking points can’t mask reality

By Will Thebeau

Students in the new Army prep course stand at attention after physical training exercises at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., Aug. 27, 2022. The Army is launching a sweeping overhaul of its recruiting to focus more on young people who have spent time in college or are job hunting early in their careers. The aim is to reverse years of enlistment shortfalls. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File)

Army launching a sweeping overhaul of its recruiting to reverse enlistment shortfalls

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Chester Deanes, left, and Ben Phillips hold a photo of the former Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis, where they lived growing up on Sept. 7, 2023. The Army sprayed a potential carcinogen from the tops of buildings and from station wagons in the area around Pruitt-Igoe in the 1950s and 1960s as part of secret Cold War-era testing. Deanes and Phillips are leading an effort to get government compensation. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)

Government should pay compensation for secretive Cold War-era testing, St. Louis victims say

By Jim Salter - Associated Press

Syracuse defensive lineman Terry Lockett (90) celebrates with linebacker Leon Lowery (16) after a defensive stop during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Army in Syracuse, N.Y., Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)

Syracuse scores 26 unanswered points after sluggish start to defeat Army 29-16 and stay unbeaten

By Mark Frank - Associated Press

Army Lt. Gen. Randy George testifies during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to examine his nomination to be reappointment to the grade of general and to be Chief of Staff of the Army, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Senate confirms army, marines chiefs as senator’s objection blocks other military nominations

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Palestinian patients carry their belongings on their way back to the Gaza Strip after receiving medical treatment in Israel, near the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel, in the town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. Israel shut down the main personnel crossing between Israel and Gaza to thousands of Palestinian laborers on Tuesday, following a resurgence of violent protests at the Israeli border fence in recent days. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli military raid kills 3 in West Bank. Officials say 4th man killed by Israeli fire in Gaza

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

A M1A1 Abrams tank navigates on various types of matting systems developed by U.S. Army's Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) during a demonstration of methods used by military vehicles during amphibious operations at the Vicksburg, Miss. campus, Aug. 1, 2017. U.S. officials say that Abrams tanks needed to train Ukrainian forces have arrived in Germany, and are on their way to Grafenwoehr Army base where the training will begin in two to three weeks. (Courtland Wells/The Vicksburg Post via AP) **FILE**

‘Apex predator’: Army overhauls M1 Abrams tank upgrade plan, will build quicker battlefield vehicle

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, leaves the chamber as senators arrive for votes, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. Tuberville is delaying civilian and flag officer nominations in the Pentagon as he protests a Defense Department policy providing leave and reimbursement for service members who need to travel to get an abortion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hundreds of military promotions are on hold as a Republican senator demands end to abortion policy

By Kevin Freking and Tara Copp - Associated Press

FILE - Female soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division train on a firing range while testing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky., Sept. 18, 2012. Female soldiers face rampant sexism, harassment and other gender-related challenges in male dominated Army special operations units, according to a report Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, eight years after the Pentagon opened all combat jobs to women. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Female soldiers in Army special operations face rampant sexism and harassment, military report says

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Mohamed Toumba, one of the soldiers who ousted Nigerian President Mohamed Bazoum, addresses supporters of Niger's ruling junta in Niamey, Niger, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. Nigeriens are preparing for war against regional countries threatening to invade, three weeks after mutinous soldiers ousted the nation’s democratically elected president. Residents in the capital, Niamey, are calling for the mass recruitment of volunteers to assist the army in the face of a growing threat by the West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, which says it will use military force if the junta doesn’t reinstate the deposed President Mohamed Bazoum. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Nigeriens call for mass recruitment of volunteers as the junta faces possible regional invasion

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

Ladies from the Queen of Peace Church walk to the stage to pray the rosary during the memorial service of U.S. Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén at the Cesar Chavez High School on Aug. 14, 2020, in Houston. A federal judge has sentenced a Texas woman Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, to 30 years in prison for helping to dispose of the body of U.S. soldier Guillén. The 2020 killing led to changes in how women in the military can report sexual abuse. (Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Only suspect arrested in death of U.S. solider Vanessa Guillen is sentenced to 30 years in prison

By Acacia Coronado - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning press conference in front of the former presidential plane at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, July 27, 2020. Mexico has announced its army-run airline will start up in September 2023, but flight attendants won’t be soldiers. The administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has also put trains, tourism and infrastructure projects under the army's command. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte File)

Mexico’s army-run airline to take off in September, but the flight attendants won’t be soldiers

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FILE - Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, July 18, 2023. Austin is warning that troop readiness and retention is at risk, as the Army's chief stepped down Friday leaving the military's two ground combat forces without Senate-confirmed leaders for the first time in history. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Pentagon warns of disruptions as Army, Marines both lack confirmed leaders for first time

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the National archives, records from the sixth floor of the Military Personnel Records Center in Overland, Mo., near St. Louis, are recovered months after the massive fire that started on July 12, 1973. The box was soaked in water and covered completely with mold. (National Archives via AP)

A fire destroyed millions of veterans’ records. 50 years later, families are still seeking answers

By Allen G. Breed and Randy Herschaft - Associated Press

Israeli troops examine the car used by a Palestinian attacker at the scene of a shooting attack near the Israeli West Bank settlement of Kdumim, Thursday, July 6, 2023. The attacker opened fire, killing one Israeli, a day after Israeli forces withdrew from the largest military operation in the West Bank in two decades. The Israeli army said the attacker was shot and killed. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian militant kills Israeli soldier in West Bank, a day after Israel’s military raid in area

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Palestinians walk by a damaged house in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, Wednesday, July 5, 2023, after the Israeli army withdrew its forces from the militant stronghold. The withdrawal of troops from the camp ended an intense two-day operation that killed at least 13 Palestinians, drove thousands of people from their homes and left a wide swath of damage in its wake. One Israeli soldier was also killed. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israel ends West Bank raid calling it a blow to militants. Palestinians grapple with destruction

By Majdi Mohammed and Imad Isseid - Associated Press

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Milley: Measured pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive not a surprise

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Villagers and resistance fighters gather and bury what they say are victims of an airstrike by planes of the military government, outside the town of Pasuang in Myanmar's eastern state of Kayah on Sunday, June 25, 2023. The military government uses air and ground attacks to try to crush the armed resistance that arose after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Fighting has been fierce in southern Kayah, where members of an army-established ethnic Karenni militia recently defected en masse to the resistance side. (Free Burma Rangers via AP)

Pro-government ethnic militias in east Myanmar shift loyalty to join fighters against military rule

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Russian servicemen guard an area standing in front of a tank in a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. Russia's security services have responded to mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's declaration of an armed rebellion by calling for his arrest. In a sign of how seriously the Kremlin took the threat, security was heightened in Moscow, Rostov-on-Don and other regions. (Vasily Deryugin, Kommersant Publishing House via AP)

Wagner Group chief calls off rebellion in Russia, troops stop advance on Moscow

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The M10 Booker Combat Vehicle proudly displays its namesake on the gun tube during the Army Birthday Festival at the National Museum of the U.S. Army, June 10, 2023. The M10 Booker Combat Vehicle is named after two American service members: Pvt. Robert D. Booker, who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for actions in World War II, and Staff Sgt. Stevon A. Booker, who posthumously received the Distinguished Service Cross for actions during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Their stories and actions articulate the Army’s need for the M10 Booker Combat Vehicle, an infantry assault vehicle that will provide protection and lethality to destroy threats like the ones that took the lives of these two Soldiers. (U.S. Army photo by Bernardo Fuller)

Army debuts armored vehicle for various combat functions, but don’t call it a tank

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times