Meghann Myers
Pentagon bureau chief
Meghann Myers is the Pentagon bureau chief at Military Times. She covers operations, policy, personnel, leadership and other issues affecting service members.
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Services were slow to process COVID vaccine exemptions, watchdog finds
A Pentagon evaluation found some services taking too long to process COVID vaccine exemption paperwork.
Pentagon tech boss used unauthorized app for official communications: watchdog
An investigation into verbal abuse turned up a much different violation.
U.S. to begin evacuating some Afghan nationals as they await visa approval
White House officials have not said how many individuals will be moved or where they will be housed while they await a final decision.
The National Guard really wants to grow. The latest budget is reducing their numbers
Though senior leaders have asked for more troops, it's probably not to be.
The military’s top officer schools congressmen on critical race theory, ‘white rage’ and communism
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has had enough.
SECDEF wants you to know that supporting Donald Trump isn’t extremism
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin couldn't define extremism, but he clarified that supporting Trump isn't it.
DoD should reinstate programs granting citizenship through service, Army veteran senator says
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday on veteran naturalization and deportation.
Four times as many troops and vets have died by suicide as in combat, study finds
There are so many risks for suicide that it's hard to point to the one responsible for the rise in suicides, the report found.
These five Army posts have the highest sexual assault risk, study shows
Posts with divisions tend to present the most risk.
Pentagon’s extremism definition will have to find the line between free speech and unit cohesion
In order to root out extremism, the military is going to have to define it.
