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Brenden Aaronson of the United States comforts Iran's Saeid Ezatolahi at the end of the World Cup group B soccer match between Iran and the United States at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. The United States won 1-0 to the advance in the tournament. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

An arm around a shoulder

By L. Scott Lingamfelter

In this Jan. 21, 2016 file photo, Eric Fanning testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The committee has confirmed Fanning, the first openly gay leader of a U.S. military service. By voice vote Thursday, March 10, 2016, committee members approved the nomination of Fanning to be Army secretary. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Religious accommodations for Sikhs in Marine Corps backed by Muslim, Jewish groups

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Troops get the second dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination event. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Natalia Murillo)

Retiring soldier says Army approved, then denied COVID-19 vaccine exemption request

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth testifies before a Senate Armed Services Committee on May 5, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Army’s top leader denies ‘woke’ allegations from critics

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

National Guard members take a staircase toward the U.S. Capitol building before a rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden's Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Jan. 18, 2021. Soldiers are leaving the Army National Guard at a faster rate than they are enlisting, fueling concerns that in the coming years units around the country may not meet military requirements for overseas and other deployments. Officials say the number of soldiers retiring or leaving the Guard each month in the past year has exceeded those coming in, for a total annual loss of about 7,500 service members. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

National Guard struggles as troops leave at faster pace

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks at an event with President Joe Biden on April 22, 2022, in Auburn, Wash., south of Seattle. Murray is being challenged by Tiffany Smiley, a Republican from Pasco, Wash., in the upcoming election. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Campaign ads spark T-shirt war in competitive U.S. Senate race in Washington

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

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 fell about 15,000 soldiers — or 25% — short of its recruitment goal this year, officials confirmed Friday, Sept. 30, despite a frantic effort to make up the widely expected gap in a year when all the military services struggled in a tight jobs market to find young people willing and fit to enlist. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File)

U.S. Army misses recruiting goal; other services squeak by

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

A Russian national flag flies over the Mariupol Sea Port which has recently started its work after heavy fighting in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, on June 12, 2022. Even as the Russian war machine crawls across Ukraine’s east, trying to achieve the Kremlin’s goal of securing a full control over the country’s industrial heartland of the Donbas, the Ukrainian forces are scaling up attacks to reclaim territory in the south. (AP Photo) **FILE**

First openly trans army officer accused of trying to pass information to Russia

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Military recruiting security crisis illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Military recruiting is a national security crisis

By Tom Jurkowsky

Soldiers and National Park Service personnel offload equipment and supplies from a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter on Kahiltna Glacier on April 27, 2022. The Army says it has grounded its fleet of Chinook cargo helicopters after fuel leaks caused a "small number" of engine fires. (John Pennell/U.S. Army via AP, File)

Army grounds Chinook helicopter fleet; mechanical problems behind fuel leaks that caused fires

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - U.S. Marines direct a chinook helicopter arriving to pick up a container with supplies at Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan on June 9, 2011. The Army said Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, that it has grounded its fleet of about 400 Chinook cargo helicopters after fuel leaks caused a small number of engine fires. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

Army grounds Chinook helicopter fleet after a ‘small number’ of engine fires

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Illustration on the war in Ukraine by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

A lesson for America’s military from the Ukrainian war

By L. Scott Lingamfelter

Navy's Tai Lavatai speaks during a news conference at the Navy NCAA college football Fanfest Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Tommy Gilligan) **FILE**

Navy hopes 2021 victory over Army turning point for program

By Noah Trister - Associated Press

This handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, shows the Russian military's Grad multiple rocket launchers firing rockets at Ukrainian troops at an undisclosed location. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP)

Russia hosts annual military ‘Olympics’ as the war in Ukraine grinds on

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

U.S. Army service members assigned to the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, receive travel briefs prior to deployment to the U.S. Army Europe and Africa area of operations, from Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, Feb. 28, 2022. The armored brigade recently completed a nine-month deployment supporting U.S. allies and partners in the Pacific. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Anthony Ford) **FILE**

U.S. Army reboots, reorients to confront China, back allies in region

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, recent Army basic combat training graduates have their temperatures taken as they arrive at Fort Lee, Va, on March 31, 2020, after being transported using sterilized buses from Fort Jackson, S.C. COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on military recruiting, shuttering enlistment stations around the country and forcing thousands of recruiters to woo potential soldiers online. Recruiters have had to abandon their normal visits to high schools and malls, and instead rely almost exclusively on social media to reach young people. (U.S. Army via AP) **FILE**

Army tests prep course for recruits who don’t meet fitness, academic standards

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

U.S. soldiers take part in NATO-led Noble Partner 2017 multinational military exercises at the military base of Vaziani, outside Tbilisi, Georgia, Aug. 9, 2017. While Ukraine and Georgia aren't yet ready for NATO membership and have little prospect of being invited to join soon, the Western allies insist that NATO's doors must remain open to them. In 2008, NATO promised to eventually embrace the two nations, although it hasn't offered them a specific roadmap to membership. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, File)

Army to shift $1 billion to recruiting, retention efforts; rely more on reserves as ranks shrink

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

About 130 soldiers with the U.S. Army's 87th Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 3rd Division Sustainment Brigade, wait to board a chartered plane during their deployment to Europe, March 11, 2022, at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga. The Army is significantly cutting the total number of soldiers it expects to have in the force over the next two years, as the U.S. military faces what a top general called “unprecedented challenges” in bringing in new recruits. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

Army cuts force size amid unprecedented battle for recruits

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

President Joe Biden listens as first lady Jill Biden speaks during a Fourth of July celebration for military families on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, July 4, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Army suspends retired general for tweet aimed at first lady Jill Biden

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Army Spc. Tristan Spoerri, with the Utah National Guard Medical Detachment, administers the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to a soldier on Camp Williams, Utah, Sept. 11, 2021. The Department of Defense ordered mandatory vaccinations to protect the Force and ensure their readiness to defend the American people. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Alejandro Lucero)

No pay for Guard, Reserve troops who refuse COVID-19 vaccine, Army says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times