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.
Is the military too ‘woke’ to recruit?
There's a lack of hard information on why propensity to serve is falling, and whether there's an ideological shift in attitude toward military service.
Austin approves plan to drop Confederate references from DoD property
A new working group will oversee the removal and replacing of tributes to the Confederacy and Confederate military starting in December.
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.
Space Force guardians now eligible for Air Medal, Bronze Star and more
Guardians are now eligible five more awards, including some earned in combat.
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.
