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The Veterans Affairs Department is having a harder time finding candidates to meet its staffing needs across its nationwide network of healthcare facilities, VA officials are telling the agency’s watchdog office.

The emails said members selected to attend must be “consistently rated as top performers within their formations”; have a “clear record of integrity, discipline and selfless service”; “demonstrate strong presence, clear communication and sound judgment under pressure”; and “serve as role models for their peers and subordinates,” per the Journal.

Pentagon's Defense Chief Pete Hegseth's bitter clash with Sen. Mark Kelly has now become part of a formal impeachment push against the defense secretary, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal. According to a 34-page House resolution obtained by Radar, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Hegseth accusing him of multiple abuses of power — including an entire article centered on his treatment of Kelly.

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CFL/ACFLs, Previous PFA Results Displaying as “Incomplete.”  An issue within PRIMS is causing some Physical Fitness Assessments (PFAs) conducted prior to 2026 that previously reflected as “PASS” to now display as “INCOMPLETE.” There is currently no system-level correction available for this issue. Current solution is for the command where the PFA was conducted, needs to submit a Letter of Correction (LOC) via askmncc@us.navy.mil with the appropriate supporting documentation. Once this PRIMS issue has been resolved, the PRP Office will process all LOCs submitted as a result of this error. NRA/NRC CFL/ACFL Role Assignments. Only Navy Reserve Activity (NRA) and Navy Reserve Center (NRC) personnel may be assigned the Command Fitness Leader (CFL) role within PRIMS, unless the NRC Commanding Officer (CO) or Officer in Charge (OIC) UICs provides written authorization for the assignment to the Assistant Command Fitness Leader (ACFL) role. Commander, Navy Reserve Forces Command (COMNAVRESFORCOM) policy dictates ACFL role assignments for drilling Reserve personnel. REFERENCE: PRP GUIDE-7.

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Representative Thomas Massie on Tuesday filed eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of violating the War Powers Resolution and committing other abuses of power tied to U.S. military operations.

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This is an eye opener... The Pentagon watchdog’s report paints a picture of significant losses to US forces and facilities in the region, far more than previously acknowledged.

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Two former U.S. Navy sailors who are married have admitted to federal drug charges after selling counterfeit oxycodone tablets laced with fentanyl to military personnel in San Diego, leading to a fatal overdose.

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On May 16, more than a year after Hernandez applied her father for the Military Parole in Place program, ICE officers detained Hernandez-Reyna at a gas station just outside of Phoenix in front of Hernandez's two younger brothers. She was 2,000 miles away at the time, stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

When Japanese bombs turned USS Franklin into a floating crematorium, a claustrophobic Jesuit priest walked into its burning guts and showed the Navy what courage looked like before the brass tried to make his medal smaller.

Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses, according to records reviewed by ProPublica and interviews with three people familiar with the event. The oligarch paid to rent out one of the private islands, where a reception was held and where guests slept. He also covered other big-ticket items, like the fireworks show, and his team helped plan the event. Kremlev is the head of the International Boxing Association, a scandal-plagued sports group that has been financed by the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. The wedding payments came from an IBA-affiliated entity in Dubai that the boxing association uses for financial transactions.

Iran is likely to study and attempt to reverse-engineer a U.S. Navy underwater drone captured by Iranian forces near the Strait of Hormuz, potentially handing Tehran useful technology while delivering a setback for the Pentagon. According to a Reuters report published September 9, the 19-foot Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle malfunctioned while surveying regional waters before Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recovered it.

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"They blew the hell out of Bahrain," Hung Cao said in an interview with The Epoch Times on Wednesday, in a rare official admission of the impact of the conflict on a key US facility amid escalating tensions in the Gulf, six months into the US and Israel's war on Iran.

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Several U.S. fighter jets at a Jordanian military base were damaged in Iranian strikes on Wednesday, sources tell CBS News. Iran's state media had previously said Tehran targeted U.S. assets across the region in retaliation for American attacks on Iranian oil tankers. Yemen's Houthis seized the key Red Sea port of Mokha on Thursday, according to military sources speaking to the AFP and Reuters.

The U.S. Navy sea drone that Iran has boasted about capturing in the Strait of Hormuz can operate underwater for up to 10 days and at depths of up to six kilometers. Iran’s IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) captured the American uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) Anduril Dive-LD on Tuesday, according to the semiofficial Tasnim news agency which posted an image of the vessel.

U.S. Navy leaders promised Tuesday to apply “lessons learned” from the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record-setting deployment in preparing another aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, for its assignment in the Middle East next month.

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