WATCH: Pentagon to better screen recruits for extremist behavior
Kirby also said that service leaders meeting with Austin made it clear that troops want clearer guidance on exactly what constitutes extremist activity so they know what types of behavior to report.
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Trans troops, recruits celebrate new Pentagon rule allowing them to serve openly
The Pentagon announced new rules Wednesday allowing transgender military members to serve openly. It fulfills an early pledge from President Joe Biden, restoring an Obama-era policy that was overturned by President Donald Trump. Ali Rogin spoke to transgender service members…
Reversing Trump order, Pentagon to release new policy for transgender people in military
The Pentagon on Wednesday will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that offer them wider access to medical care and assistance with gender transition.
Pentagon approves extending Guard deployment at Capitol
The decision underscores concerns about security at the Capitol, two months after rioters breached the building in an attack that left five people dead.
This comes after the acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police appealed to congressional leaders to back her request to keep National Guard troops protecting the building and lawmakers for another two months.
A U.S. contractor died Wednesday when at least 10 rockets slammed into an air base housing U.S. and other coalition troops in western Iraq, the Pentagon said.
Kirby also updated reporters on last week's U.S. military airstrikes in Syria, saying the strikes likely killed one militia member, and left two others wounded.
The Pentagon, at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has started deploying thousands of active-duty troops to open mass vaccination centers across the country.
A video posted by a female U.S. Marine about sexual assault in the military rocketed across the internet and into a Pentagon press-briefing room Friday. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin promised to take additional steps to stop such violence. But…
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