by ADC | Apr 28, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Force Culture, On Base
Last year’s defense authorization bill included a groundbreaking change to military justice that calls for sexual assault accusations to be handled outside the chain of command. But a bipartisan group on Capitol Hill has continued to fight to also remove sexual...
by ADC | Apr 21, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Force Culture, On Base
The Pentagon said this week it will need more authority from Congress to continue the Naming Commission’s work identifying and rebranding installations and real estate assets around the world that are named after Confederate leaders, according to Army Times. Congress...
by ADC | Apr 21, 2022 | Force Culture, In Our Communities, Infrastructure, On Base
The William Beaumont Army Medical Facility at Fort Bliss, Texas is again providing most services, while work continues on the hospital’s plumbing system. The hospital has been relying on bottled water while plumbers look into the discolored water that led to usage...
by ADC | Apr 20, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Force Culture, On Base
A legislative proposal sent to Congress this month from the Air Force would combine Space Force active duty and reserve forces, ditching the much-debated idea of a Space National Guard. “This component proposal is a new approach to managing reserve component forces by...
by ADC | Apr 18, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Force Culture, In Our Communities, Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) are asking the Army to do more to prevent suicide at rural bases in their state, according to Military.com. They sent a letter last week to the Secretary of the Army, which was also signed by Rep. Jackie...
by ADC | Apr 15, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Force Culture, Military Families, On Base
DOD outlined a new Equity Action Plan Thursday describing a “shift” in the department’s diversity strategies “to create opportunities for all Americans, including for small, disadvantaged businesses, and to ensure that all qualified Americans can serve their country...
by ADC | Apr 8, 2022 | Force Culture, In Our Communities, Military Families, On Base
Fort Sill, Oklahoma this week celebrated the grand opening of its Sexual Harassment / Assault Response Program Resource Center and Fusion Directorate, one of six such facilities participating in an Army pilot program. “The SHARP Resource Center and Fusion Directorate...
by ADC | Apr 4, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Force Culture, On Base
At installations with the highest risk for sexual assault and harassment, “there is a pervasive misunderstanding of what prevention is, how to do it and what it takes to do it well,” according to an in-depth DOD report released last week. “Although leaders have a...
by ADC | Apr 1, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Force Culture, Military Families, On Base, Veterans
Violent extremism among current and former military members is relatively minor, but the problem is growing, lawmakers heard at a Thursday hearing of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. Committee Chair Mark Takano (D-Calif.) said that “from 1990 through 2021,...
