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Once Hailed as Army Pioneer, Now Battling to Stay on the Job Pittsburg Post Gazette By JAMES DAO / The New York Times COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa L. King was named the first female commandant of the Army's elite drill sergeant school in 2009, proponents of gender equality in the military hailed the news as a watershed. But it did not take long for the grumbling to start. Students who flunked out of the school complained that she set unfair standards. Some of her own instructors said she rigidly enforced old-fashioned rules. Traditionalists across the service asked: how could a woman with no experience in combat manage the Army's only school for training the trainers who prepare recruits for war? She says she tried to ignore the criticism, but her superiors did not. Last November, they suspended Sergeant Major King, forbidding contact with students or staff and opening an investigation into what they called the "toxic" environment at the school. As that review dragged on, she says she felt like a criminal: isolated, publicly humiliated and so despondent that friends worried that she might hurt herself.More |
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Guns for butter: House Votes to Stop Pentagon Cuts ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Turning their budget knife to domestic programs to protect the Pentagon, House Republicans on Thursday approved legislation cutting food stamps, benefits for federal workers and social services programs like day care for children and Meals on Wheels for the elderly. President Barack Obama's Wall St. reform law would be rewritten under the legislation, passed on a 218-199 vote, while his controversial overhaul of the U.S. health care system would also be cut. The legislation would deny illegal immigrants child tax credits they can currently claim, while new curbs on medical malpractice lawsuits are credited with driving down Medicare and Medicaid costs. The bill, passed after a passionate, sometimes hyperbolic debate, would spare the military from a $55 billion, 10 percent automatic budget cut next year that's punishment for the failure of last year's deficit-reduction "supercommittee" to strike a deal. It also would protect domestic agencies from an 8 percent cut to their day-to-day operating budgets next year, but would leave in place a 2 percent cut to Medicare providers. The legislation is a dead letter in the Senate, however, where Democratic leaders insist on keeping the automatic cuts in place as leverage to try to force Republicans to agree to a mixture of tax increases and spending cuts to address the nation's deficit woes. More |
Navy Plans New Breath Testing Pilot Program Mark D. Faram - Staff writer NAVY TIMES ABOARD THE FRIGATE ELROD — The Navy will do another test this summer before implementing a fleetwide mandatory breath testing program designed to stem alcohol abuse amid sailors’ concerns that it will be used as a form of punishment. The move came at the recommendation of fleet enlisted leaders after the program was announced in February, said Juan M. Garcia, assistant secretary of the Navy for personnel. “The plans are still to field it fleetwide by the end of the year,” Garcia said. “But we’re going to do some more testing this summer to ensure when we field it, we do it right.” Garcia told Navy Times that just a few commands will begin mandatory breath testing this summer in an effort to collect initial data and help officials write a fleetwide policy that’s expected out in the fall. More |
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General: Cost Worries Could Derail Plan For Next Bomber To Be Unmanned GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE ALEXANDRIA, VA — Retired Col. Steve Strobridge, government relations director at Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), was the sole military association witness testifying at a March 21 House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee hearing. Strobridge, who also serves as Co-Chair of The Military Coalition, a consortium of 34 military and veteran associations, told the Subcommittee the Pentagon’s proposals for dramatic fee hikes under the military TRICARE health system constitute a serious breach of faith with the military community. More |
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Published On - 5/17/12
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