DoD schools struggle to identify, support military children with learning disabilities, GAO finds
A GAO review found gaps at multiple stages of DODEA's process for identifying and supporting students with specific learning disabilities.
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Record-long deployments add new layer to sailors’ reenlistment decisions
“Not knowing what’s happening wears me down,” said a sailor assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln who's reconsidering their reenlistment decision.
After Epic Fury, Navy may need an extra $8 billion to be solvent, CNO says
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle is going public with his plea for the Navy: "I need my money."
Jonny Kim’s resume already lists Navy SEAL, astronaut, doctor. He’s now returning to active duty.
After almost a decade of working at NASA, Jonny Kim will return to active duty for the U.S. Navy, where he previously served as a SEAL.
15,000 operational days lost due to US submarine maintenance delays, GAO finds
Maintenance delays for U.S. submarines have "resulted in an estimated $3.4 billion in costs to sustain" crews and boats that were not operational.
Navy’s billet-based advancement shift leaves nuclear sailors on separate path
The Navy is expanding billet-based advancement to 14 ratings while nuclear sailors remain on a separate, quota-based path to promotion.
Navy offers select special warfare officers up to six-figure bonuses to stay in uniform
Naval special warfare chief warrant officers with between four and 16 years of commissioned service are eligible for up to $100,000 in retention bonuses.
Pentagon’s NATO review preparing troop options for Hegseth by November 6
A Pentagon review of U.S. troop deployments in Europe will create at least four sets of options for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by Nov. 6.
They survived an Iran war drone attack. Six months later, they’re struggling to get care.
The War Horse reports that soldiers wounded in an attack by Iran have faced months of delayed appointments, referrals and battles to receive treatment.
US Navy eyes port stops in Africa, India after USS Abraham Lincoln’s marathon deployment
The Navy’s top admiral says the service is changing how it does pre-deployment stocking and resupply and looking at different places to make port calls.
American flags lowered to half-staff at military installations in honor of Dolly Parton
American flags domestically and abroad will be lowered to half-staff until Sept. 1 in honor of country singer Dolly Parton, who passed Tuesday.
Marines, corpsmen ‘ran toward’ Twentynine Palms home rocked by explosion
On Aug. 21, an explosion rocked a house in Twentynine Palms, California. Local Marines and Navy corpsmen "quickly ran toward it."
Navy instructs troops, families to scrub social media of personal information
The Navy asked military personnel and their families to remove information from their social media that shows an affiliation with the Navy.
USS Abraham Lincoln to dock in Thailand next week, Thai official says
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is expected to dock in Thailand next week, according to a Thai official.
Hung Cao taps civilian to stand up Navy industrial base office
Andrew Magliochetti was tapped by Hung Cao to become the first deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for the defense industrial base.
Marines, Navy mandate yearly gas mask training to ‘reinforce grooming compliance’
The Marine Corps and Navy are mandating annual gas mask fit training, with the move intended in part to “reinforce grooming compliance,” the services said.
Some military barracks ‘chronically neglected’ due to $285 billion in maintenance backlogs, GAO finds
A GAO report found that the department underperforms in funding maintenance needs as recommended by its Facilities Sustainment Model.
