Author: tom philpott Military Update
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Military Update: DOD resists push to roll back compound drug rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thirty-one House members, most of whom, public records show, got campaign dollars from compound drug lobbyists, are pressing the Department of Defense to soften rules set in May that block Tricare coverage of compound medicines…
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Military Update: New commissary reform plan to protect shopper savings
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Department of Defense is modifying its approach to reform the commissary benefit with new guarantees to preserve overall shopper savings and avoid pay cuts for current employees, according to a source who has seen…
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Military Update: Combat medicine advances when experts collaborate
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Perhaps the most significant life-saving advancement in combat medicine in recent years was refinement of tourniquets and training to keep wounded warriors with shattered or missing limbs from bleeding out. Another notable gain was faster…
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Military Update: Digital innovation team to help shape ‘Force of the Future’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s “Force of the Future” initiative is expected to include a unique Defense Digital Services office that, within a year, would hire up to 100 top designers, developers and engineers from government…
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Military Update: The arguments behind new tech-track career paths
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Every year, hundreds of technically or tactically skilled officers and noncommissioned officers, trained at great expense, leave the military for the private sector, not because their skills aren’t needed but because the military system favors…
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Military Update: ‘Force of Future’ to reward talent, diversity, motherhood
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Defense Secretary Ashton Carter next month will be presented with a package of proposals for reshaping military and defense civilian pays, promotions and quality of life, all of which strive to capture a “Force of…
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Military Update: Service chiefs warn against defense cuts as sequestration continues
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Military leaders over the past week have sharpened warnings that force readiness is unraveling and it could plummet if Congress allows the next round of defense cuts mandated by the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA),…
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Military Update: Report says crews of former ‘spray birds’ exposed to Agent Orange residue
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Retired Air Force Reserve Maj. Wes Carter almost didn’t travel to Washington, D.C., last week where, to his surprise, he heard an independent panel of scientists verify what he had dogged the Air Force and…
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Military Update: Basic Allowance for Housing dips in January
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Basic Allowance for Housing paid to a million service members living off base in the United States will rise by an average half percentage point in January as two slimming changes to rate calculations take…