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The Air Force is letting commanders deviate from grooming and fitness standards in response to COVID-19, though shaving standards will remain in place.

The number of veteran patients who have died from complications due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) tripled over the weekend from 9 to 27 deaths, according to data released by the Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday.

The Navy "cannot allow a single sailor to perish as a result of this pandemic unnecessarily," Capt. Brett E. Crozier wrote in a letter

DINFOS is a rite of passage for service members and civilians whose job is to tell the U.S. military’s story.

A New Jersey Army National Guardsman who passed away on Saturday is the first U.S. service member to die of COVID-19, the Pentagon announced Monday afternoon

Three people living on a remote island in Maine called the Coast Guard after several people with guns cut down a tree and used it to block a driveway in an attempt to quarantine those inside.

'There are no recruits that will be showing up this week. They will be moved to next week, and from there the arrival of recruits will continue on schedule.'

It's your lucky day, soldier.

Switzerland may have the oldest policy of military neutrality on the planet, but it sure as hell plans on going to war against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Air Force is investigating both deaths, but neither was COVID-19 related and foul play is not suspected, the academy said.

Talk about some much-needed good news.

No new Marine recruits will arrive at Parris Island, South Carolina, during the week of March 30.

It's been nearly four years since the $7.8 billion USS Zumwalt was first commissioned in Baltimore, Maryland in October 2016, but the Navy's first stealth destroyer is almost finally ready to actually see combat

The USS Theodore Roosevelt isn't the only Navy aircraft carrier in the Western Pacific that's currently dealing the threat of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) among its sailors.

Common sense and empathy can be deadly to maintaining readiness, the US military thinks.

Tom Cruise can do almost anything, but he absolutely cannot fly a $70 million dollar Navy fighter jet

A member of the Maryland Army National Guard recently tested positive for COVID-19, leading to 20 other soldiers in the unit to be placed on quarantine as a precaution to limit the virus' spread, a spokesman for the guard said in a statement released Friday night.

Whoa boy.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will not test non-veteran employees for COVID-19, which includes health care workers who are showing symptoms.

COVID-19 SITREP is a collection of the latest coronavirus updates affecting U.S. military service members and their families from Task & Purpose.