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Department of Defense tells its schools ‘do not use’ certain lessons

Schools for military families must pull several lessons tied to immigration, gender and sexuality from their curriculum and remove books that could “potentially” cover those topics.

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Majority of troops and military families believe large-scale war is on the horizon, survey finds

“[83%] of active-duty families and 67% of Americans anticipate U.S. involvement in a major conflict within the next three to five years.”

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How a broken part in a jet engine’s ‘blind spot’ brought down an Air Force F-16

An accident investigation board found that the part behind an F-16C crash in April 2024 was in a “blind spot” that Air Force mechanics can’t see during maintenance.

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Trump nixes Gaza deployments, but Forever Wars continue

President Trump has said the United States wants to take over Gaza, but he clarified that no U.S. troops will be needed to deploy there. Elsewhere in the Middle East, airstrikes continue as the Forever Wars quietly grind on.

Task & Purpose was founded in 2014 as a voice for the military community, and continues to serve that community with accurate reporting and great storytelling to this day. Our journalists have reported on the front lines of the Standing Rock protests in North Dakota and the war in Afghanistan. We’ve uncovered American veterans being abused in Kuwaiti prisons, deported veterans being forced to work for Mexican cartels, and drawn national attention to a longstanding legal rule barring service members from suing the government — even in the face of gross negligence.

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