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House chairman asks Attorney General to investigate former VA leaders
House Veterans' Affairs Chairman Mike Bost suggested former department leaders could face criminal charges for past budget mistakes.
The Pentagon has spent 23% of its COVID-19 response funds. Congress is asking why not more.
The Pentagon has spent less than a quarter of the $10.6 billion Congress gave it in March to protect military personnel and marshal American industry to procure face masks, ventilators and other products hospitals need in their fight against the coronavirus.
By Joe Gould
Military virus aid could look different if 2nd wave hits
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that as the U.S. military prepares for another potential wave of the coronavirus, it may do things a bit differently, providing more targeted aid for cities and states and possibly shorter quarantine times for troops.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution Podcast, Episode 19: Retired Army Maj. Gen. Mark Graham
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Mark Graham is currently serving as the senior director for the Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care National Call Center.
Army 4-star will co-lead Manhattan Project-style effort to create and distribute COVID-19 vaccine
The other co-lead called the vaccine timeline “credible” but noted that it will be “challenging.”
By Kyle Rempfer
Detective: Cellphone records led to woman’s alleged killer, a Luke AFB airman
Authorities used cellphone records to track down an airman who they believe shot and killed a Sunday school teacher and left her body off a forest road in northern Arizona, a sheriff’s detective said.
Are military patients delaying the health care they need?
"For patients, the thing that keeps me up at night, is delaying something longer than it needs to be, leading to a poor outcome."
By Karen Jowers
Sen. Sullivan of Alaska talks military strength and strategy in the Arctic
When it comes to boosting the Defense Department’s role in the frigid Arctic, nobody in Congress seems hotter under the collar than Sen. Dan Sullivan.
By Joe Gould
Bulging deficits may threaten prized Pentagon arms projects
The government’s $3 trillion effort to rescue the economy from the coronavirus crisis is stirring worry at the Pentagon. Bulging federal deficits may force a reversal of years of big defense spending gains and threaten prized projects like the rebuilding of the nation’s arsenal of nuclear weapons.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
Taliban say they don’t have missing US contractor
Taliban leaders searched their ranks, including in the much-feared Haqqani network, and on Sunday told The Associated Press they are not holding Mark R. Frerichs, a Navy veteran turned contractor who disappeared in Afghanistan in late January.
Esper: Pentagon ready for any new wave of coronavirus
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has stressed that the military cannot expect to resume business as usual any time soon.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press