Meghann Myers
Pentagon bureau chief
Meghann Myers is the Pentagon bureau chief at Military Times. She covers operations, policy, personnel, leadership and other issues affecting service members.
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Services were slow to process COVID vaccine exemptions, watchdog finds
A Pentagon evaluation found some services taking too long to process COVID vaccine exemption paperwork.
This bill proposes giving veterans a year of birth control at once
The proposed law would allow VA patients to request up to a year of birth control pills at a time.
It will probably be decades before DoD can clean up all the toxic ‘forever chemicals’
An official said it will take years to examine the issue, and many more to fix it.
The Army wants to kick out an avowed white supremacist officer, but they won’t admit it
Maj. Jeff Poole was recommended for an other-than-honorable discharge earlier this year.
Fort Belvoir, cruiser Antietam under consideration for renaming by DoD commission
The commission will be looking at places and things named to honor the Confederacy in general.
You want to ditch the mask? Get vaxxed, says Pentagon
The Pentagon is making another push to get more troops vaccinated.
Active-duty troops could be deployed along the southern border again
The chief of the National Guard bureau suggested that active-duty troops could replace his forces, which are scheduled to return home by Sept. 30.
Pentagon pushes back on report of anti-extremism social media surveillance program
The Pentagon's extremism working group is not developing a social media screening pilot program, its top spokesman said.
Former acting SECDEF blames media ‘hysteria’ for his response to Jan. 6 insurrection
Christopher Miller, now a private citizen, made his case before lawmakers.
CENTCOM is releasing drawdown updates, but they don’t include troop numbers
The drawdown is anywhere between 6 and 12 percent complete, but details on how many people are still there have been withheld.
