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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The Pentagon set 18 diversity goals in 2011. It’s fulfilled 6 of them.

Only six of 18 recommendations from a 2011 report have been implemented.

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U.S. Space Force Maj. Dylan Caudill, a member of the Office of the Chief of Space Operations, presents the new service dress uniform to guardians at Buckley Space Force Base, Colo., Oct 20, 2021. The service dress prototype features a midnight blue, double-breasted overcoat with a matching tie, grey undershirt and charcoal pants, taking inspiration from 19th-century military uniforms. (Airman 1st Class Wyatt Stabler/Space Force)

Space Force guardians now eligible for Air Medal, Bronze Star and more

Guardians are now eligible five more awards, including some earned in combat.

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Fears of openly gay troops were vastly overblown: Pentagon report

Concerns about combat effectiveness and unit cohesion were basically unfounded, researchers found.

12 civilians killed, 5 injured during U.S. operations in 2021

Ten of those deaths were the result of an errant bombing in Kabul a day before U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan for good.

Housing allowances are about to go up for more than 100K troops

DoD has unveiled a number of initiatives to improve quality of life for service members, including a boost in Basic Allowance in Housing for some troops.

Military sexual assault reform is slow going, but that’s the plan

“Getting this right requires we move on expeditiously as possible to implement change, while also ensuring we do not rush to failure."

Recruiting and retention issues also affecting the National Guard

The National Guard is going to be about 9,000 troops short on its end-strength goal for the year.

Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Gregzon Fontanilla, from Guam, prepares a COVID-19 vaccine aboard amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli (LHA 7), May 10, 2022. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Malcolm Kelley/Navy)

Services may be improperly denying vaccine religious waivers, IG says

A DoD IG review of religious waivers to COVID vaccines shows the services may be failing to provide individualized assessments, required by federal law.

DoD attempts to get its head around how the end of Roe affects troops

About 80,000 female troops live in states with restrictive abortion access.

Navy secretary to rename USS Chancellorsville, USNS Maury

A commission compiling a list of Defense Department items named after Confederates is due to make its final recommendations to Congress by Oct. 1.

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