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Where Fitness Is the Job, Army Struggles to Be a Fair Boss With Female Troops
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For 99 percent of Americans, this question will never come up in a job interview: Can you hang from a bar and tuck your legs to your chest? It has, however, become a central i...
By Emma Moore
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Vaccination crisis: The National Guard is being mobilized to come to the rescue
In a bid to speed up the vaccine roll-out, states are enlisting their National Guards. More than 20,000 members of the National Guard are engaged in the vaccination mission, w...
By Emma Moore
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‘This can’t be my Army’ — The Fort Hood report is a long-overdue wake-up call for Army leaders
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When Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston finished reading an independent committee’s review of Fort Hood — every single line of the 152 pages, he says — he flipped back to ...
By Emma Moore
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Marine Corps boots infantryman investigated for sharing alleged white supremacist material
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The Marine Corps has kicked out an infantryman investigated earlier this year for allegedly sharing white supremacist material, one of more than two dozen Marines to come unde...
By Emma Moore
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The Army on its slight increase in recruiting women and minorities: Please clap
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The Army brought in slightly more women into the ranks last year then they have in years past, but service leaders acknowledged on Friday that there’s still work to be done. M...
By Emma Moore
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The Army is rolling out a new fitness test: Will it hold back women?
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An Army initiative to create a stronger, fitter fighting force has yielded a dramatic gender gap, raising questions about whether the service might unintentionally compound ba...
By Emma Moore
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Pandemic Is Changing the Military, From Boot Camp to Office Work
U.S. Navy recruits who arrive at the service’s only boot camp outside of Chicago are now given iPads to learn basic training as they languish for two weeks in quarantine isola...
By Emma Moore
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No Name, No Picture: Military to Reckon With Bias in Promotions
The U.S. military currently has just two four-star generals who are Black. House Democrats and the Pentagon are seeking to change that statistic by removing pictures and names...
By Emma Moore
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‘A failure of command’ — How one soldier’s sexual harassment case forced a reckoning among leaders in the Army Reserve
Military leaders have for many years made statements, held focus groups, organized fundraisers, and conducted surveys to get a better understanding of sexual assault and haras...
By Emma Moore
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What National Guard Training Can Tell Us About Policing Protests
A National Guard soldier called in to help quell protests in Louisville fatally shot Kentucky restaurant owner David McAtee. Residents of Louisville were already reeling from ...
By Emma Moore
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Love of country: US ready for mandatory national service?
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When Xavier Jennings was a teenager, money was tight for his single mother, who had five children, and he felt a duty to help out. He applied for jobs at Walmart and McDonald’...
By Emma Moore
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Military ‘Burn Pits’ Trashed These Veterans’ Lungs. Then the Virus Hit.
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When she contracted the novel coronavirus, Elana Duffy remembered the acrid smoke she breathed in from her Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, where jet fuel burned everything...
By Emma Moore
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Navy Docks Carrier, Marines Weigh Buzz Cuts as Virus Spreads
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The Pentagon is struggling to stay ahead of the expanding coronavirus pandemic as early missteps start piling up, a scattershot response sows confusion and the Navy is forced ...
By Emma Moore
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White House Seeks to Establish More ROTC Programs at HBCUs
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The White House Initiative on historically black colleges and universities wants HBCUs to expand Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs on their campuses and modernize...
By Emma Moore
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Vital Signs 2020: Defense Sector Straining to Attract STEM Talent
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For years, experts and military officials have been sounding the alarm across the defense industry: More STEM — or science, technology, engineering and mathematics &mdas...
By Emma Moore
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‘What’s Your Warrior?’: Army Looks Past Combat to Sign Up Teens
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The U.S. Army is banking on surprising late teens, who may know nothing about the military, with a new multimillion-dollar advertising campaign designed to help recruit more t...
By Emma Moore
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First sisters to become Army generals say it was ‘not a game of chance. It is hard work.’
One sister had wanted to be a soldier since she was young; the other planned to have a career in the Foreign Service. Both marked a milestone for the U.S. Army this summer: Ma...
By Emma Moore
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U.S. Army pushes to boost recruiting in Phoenix amid its enlistment crisis
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Scott Morley had never heard of West Point. He doesn’t come from a military family, and when he was in high school in the mid-1990s, he never considered serving in the armed f...
By Emma Moore
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Small charities make a big difference for veterans
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Fresh from the Marine Corps and readjusting to civilian life as a college student in North Texas, Jason McClure was washing his hands when he heard something fall into the sin...
By Emma Moore
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Recruiting soldiers
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Emma Moore joins The World and Everything in It to discuss the causes underlying low rates of enlistment in the armed services by young Americans, as well as the National Comm...
By Emma Moore
