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June 21, 2021

 

Mission complete for active-duty troops supporting public coronavirus vaccination sites The final federally sponsored coronavirus vaccination site, located in New Jersey, closed Sunday, Kirby told reporters at the Pentagon. Since February, the Defense Department has been deploying active-duty troops to support such federal vaccination sites. READ MORE

Elite Afghan troops were left to die in battle with Taliban, officials say At least 21 members of Afghanistan’s special forces died fighting the Taliban last week after Afghan reinforcements failed to show up when the commandos were surrounded by the enemy and pounded by mortar fire, military and government officials said. READ MORE

Male soldiers at Baumholder face highest risk among US Army bases of sexual assault, study says A Rand Corp. study found that sexual assault targeting men runs higher at some overseas installations. READ MORE   Fort Benning seeks help locating specialist who disappeared on Father’s Day A Fort Benning soldier went missing Sunday after he left to sign in for work, leaving his phone and wallet at home, his wife said in a Facebook post. READ MORE   3M found partly liable for veteran’s hearing loss in third trial over military-issued earplugs The jury determined the Minnesota-based company failed to provide warnings about their product, though the earplug was not defective, according to court documents from the trial held in Pensacola, Fla. READ MORE

Army investigates crash of 18-wheeler with an excavator that killed soldier at Fort Bragg The Army’s Combat Readiness Center safety investigators will examine the crash that took place on a gravel road leading to a training area on the installation that killed the 18-wheeler’s driver and injured two other soldiers in the truck. READ MORE   Navy releases video of massive explosion off Florida coast that measured as an earthquake The USS Gerald R. Ford was parked about 100 miles east-northeast from Ponce Inlet when the boom from a 40,000 pound explosive shook the cameras filming the event, the first of several planned Full Ship Shock Trials took place. READ MORE   Afghanistan’s air force is a rare US-backed success story. It might soon fail Taliban troops are resurgent. The Americans along with NATO troops and their airplanes are leaving. The Afghan air force, which the U.S. and its partners has nurtured to the tune of $8.5 billion since 2010, would now be the government’s spearhead in its fight against the enemy. READ MORE   US Navy’s deadliest new subs are hobbled by spare-parts woes The U.S. Navy has swapped more than 1,600 parts among its new Virginia-class submarines since 2013 to ease maintenance bottlenecks as components that are supposed to last 33 years wear out decades sooner. READ MORE   Key component arrives for $158M upgrade at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Maine-based Cianbro spent a year-and-a-half constructing the 5,000-ton, concrete entrance for one of the shipyard’s three dry docks. The massive structure arrived by barge on Monday. READ MORE   Navy sailor from Virginia attracts customers for his ginger lemonade Carl Hale Jr. tried ginger lemonade and got hooked. He wanted it so often, he figured out how to make his own. The response was overwhelming. GingerHale’s Lemonade was born. READ MORE

 

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