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Navy dismisses cases against SEAL commanders in BUD/S death
The Navy has dropped its cases against Capt. Bradley Geary and Cmdr. Erik Ramey, who had been told previously that they needed to appear before boards of inquiry.
Nate Boyer, Green Beret turned NFL player, on the parallels between military service and sports
“The number one thing when you ask vets and athletes what they missed, they always say, ‘I missed the guys.'”
In Iraq and Afghanistan ‘our future was always written,’ but the next war is uncertain, says 101st commander
“In the 2001 time period we joined, kind of, we always knew what we were doing,” said Maj. Gen. Brett Sylvia. “Whereas now we are training for very uncertain times.”
Vance’s guest at Army-Navy game will be Marine vet acquitted in subway choking
Marine veteran Daniel Penny will attend the Army-Navy game with Vice President-elect JD Vance and President-elect Donald Trump.
US combat experience in a fight with China, shake up at the 4-star level and more news
The Pentagon Rundown is a bit different this week, mostly because your trusted reporter within the five-sided fun house is out. Instead, let’s talk about all the great stories he wrote.
VFW bashes The Economist for taking ‘turkey-sized dump’ on disabled vets
Patrick Murray of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has produced a rebuttal to a recent article calling for reducing veteran’s disability benefits that only a combat veteran could write.
Beards in the Air Force and Space Force will be debated in Congress
The service will have to brief Congress on a pilot program that would allow service members to grow beards.
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