-- Numbers from a 2016 Rand Corporation study show that the ban on transgender people in the military announced by Donald Trump may affect only a small percentage of the 1.3 million active duty service members currently enlisted. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter ...
The Army, by far the largest of the military services, had the highest number of suicides among active-duty troops last year at 182, but the Marine Corps, whose suicide numbers had declined for two years, had the largest percentage increase — a 50 percent jump to 48. The Marines' worst...
The military has also already begun flowing in construction materials and barriers, O’Shaughnessy said. The numbers of active-duty forces deploying is far larger than the 800 or so originally reported last week. For comparison, the military has said it keeps about 5,200 troops ...
in the main, pro-war. Our economy is based on a militarized Keynesianism and our culture is increasingly militarized. Mainstream Democrats, seemingly forever afraid of being labeled “weak” on defense, are at pains to be more pro-military than the...
Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman downplayed how the small vaccination numbers among the U.S. military would affect readiness. “We’ve been relatively fortunate. A large number of our forces are in age criteria, health status, where we’ve fared better than others,” he said. “...
North Carolina is home to 10 military installations with more than 89,000 active-duty personnel, many of whom remain here after separating from the military. As of 2024, there were an estimated 800,000 veterans living in the state. The PIT Count found 688 veterans experiencing hom...
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Military officials have said they don’t have specific numbers on how many Guard troops are not yet vaccinated, and the Pentagon only provides a troop total that lumps active duty, Guard, and Reserve into one statistic. Guard officials have said all along that it is very difficult to assess...
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“The law is really well defined on what can be done and not be done using active-duty military,” Austin said. “Our leaders are well versed in those laws and we have the world’s greatest legal corps to assist us in making sure that we stay on track.” In a message to the for...