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Fired Marine’s question about leader accountability should not be dismissed
But let’s not conflate Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller's story with the questions that he asked, which were not unreasonable, this retired Marine colonel writes.
By Andrew Milburn
After COVID-19 ‘spike’ in CENTCOM, more vaccine on the way to deployed troops
Central Command saw a small spike in COVID-19 cases last month. Now more vaccines are on the way.
Second staffer at key New York VA hospital contracts coronavirus
Cases of the fast-spreading virus have spiked in New York City in recent days.
Navy, Air Force chaplains must end in-person worship like Army did, advocacy group says
Navy and Air Force policies are in contrast to the Army, which closed all chapels in the United States and Europe.
By Kyle Rempfer
Communities fighting transfers of coronavirus patients from military installations
Community leaders seek to minimize exposure of their residents to COVID-19.
By Patricia Kime
Explainer: What’s a disease super spreader?
Recent reports out of Wuhan cite a case of a single patient who infected 14 health care workers
By Dr. Elizabeth McGraw, Pennsylvania State University
These military towns have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the country
A new report ranks the U.S. cities with the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
By Patricia Kime
Kearsarge ARG’s unusual cruise is over
The three warships left Norfolk on Dec. 17 but their tour really became three separate cruises.
By Mark D. Faram
‘The Code’ for tone deafness? CBS show on Marines grilled for tweet about female officer
The sentiment reflected is emblematic of a greater cultural issue.
By Jon Simkins
Army vet police officer in subway battle: ‘I’m trying to survive’
A police officer on patrol alone says he was just “trying to survive” as he fought off homeless men who came at him in a caught-on-video confrontation in a New York City subway station Sunday night.
How historical disease detectives are solving the mysteries of the World War I flu epidemic
The centennial of the 1918 pandemic is a good time to take stock of how far the world has come since this historic health disaster – and to face the sobering fact that several key mysteries have yet to be resolved.
By Gerardo Chowell, Georgia State University; Cecile Viboud, National Institutes of Health, and Lone Simonsen, Roskilde University