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Members of the Marine Corps silent drill platoon are still required to wear cloth masks when they rehearse and perform outdoors.

A Democrat budget plan spends hundreds of millions of American taxpayer money on border security for a multitude of Middle Eastern countries while stripping all funds for construction of a border wall at the United States-Mexico border. 

An adviser to the Pentagon’s Counter-Extremism Working Group (CEWG) is warning the Biden administration’s efforts to purge the military of “extremists” could violate individual First Amendment rights.

Linguist Mariam Taha Thompson, 62, was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Wednesday for passing the classified names of American intelligence sources in Iraq to her romantic interest, a man linked to the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah.

Congressman Dan Crenshaw said he will soon begin rolling out examples of woke ideology spreading in the United States military.

The Pentagon does not yet have a definition of what “extremism” is but is working “quite hard” to define it, according to officials.

The Biden administration’s $715B defense budget for 2022 proposes spending about $30M on top of spending $9.1M in 2021 to combat “extremism.”

Thirty House Republicans sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, warning him that creeping left-wing extremism and politicization is jeopardizing the United States military’s status as one of the nation’s most respected institutions.

The sale of $735 million in weapons to Israel has been approved by the Biden administration as the nation continues its daily battle against Hamas terror rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.

The Pentagon has dropped its indoor and outdoor mask mandate for those who are fully vaccinated, according to a memo.

Over 120 retired flag officers warned the country is in deep peril and under tremendous assault from those pushing socialism and Marxism.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is “certainly concerned” about the lack of diversity among the senior ranks of the military, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Wednesday.

The Pentagon said it was canceling all southern border wall construction projects paid for using funds for other construction projects.

Former California Democrat Rep. Gil Cisneros (D-CA) was nominated by President Joe Biden, Monday for under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness at the Department of Defense. The move comes as yet another setback for House Democrats, who had hoped he would — as he had been signaling he might — run for his old seat, which he lost in 2020 to a Republican.

Twitter users criticized the Navy after noticing that its official Twitter account featured its logo with a bald eagle wearing a mask.

In a joint statement, several Republican Senators blasted President Joe Biden’s defense budget, calling it “disappointing,” and saying, “talk is cheap, but defending our country is not.”

Miller endorsed fellow Green Beret veteran Joe Kent (R) for Washington’s third congressional district seat on Wednesday.

Soldiers and civilians must present vaccine cards to prove they have been fully vaccinated before entering dining and exercise facilities on at least one Army base in what some soldiers and spouses see as increasing pressure to get a vaccine that is not mandatory.

On Thursday, the U.S. intelligence and security launched a “call to action” to address supply chain threats from foreign powers.

SOCOM’s first “chief of diversity and inclusion” posted anti-Trump memes, including one that compared the former president to Adolf Hitler.

The Pentagon confirmed HHS has requested help from the DOD to house unaccompanied minors coming from south of the United States border.

Hagerty said Tuesday he has still not received answers to his questions on whether Kahl leaked classified information in 2017.

Navy slides used to train its personnel on “extremism” encouraged sailors and Navy civilians to report on their colleagues if they saw indicators of “suspected or actual extremist behaviors.”

The nomination of former Obama National Security official Colin Kahl for a top position in the Biden Pentagon may have hit another snag, as Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) expressed concern that Kahl may have leaked classified information on Twitter.

Air Force veteran Republican Rep. Chris Stewart in an interview Monday scolded military leaders for getting wrapped up in politics when they criticized en masse Fox News show host Tucker Carlson’s critique of President Joe Biden focusing more on military reforms for women instead of China.

McCarthy called for the politicization of the military to “stop now,” after a series of political controversies.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday demanded a meeting with the Commandant for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) over the political attacks on Fox News Host Tucker Carlson.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday it is assembling a “climate working group” following President Joe Biden’s executive order.

The Democrat-controlled House Veterans’ Affairs committee announced Friday an investigation into the recruitment of military veterans by “extremist groups,” explicitly naming the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Three Percenters.

The Republican Study Committee called out the “weaknesses” of the Biden administration’s China policy this week by exposing ties between political appointees and China.  

The Department of Defense erroneously called President Joe Biden “VP” in a tweet on Thursday.

Biden announced the creation of a task force to assess the U.S. military’s policies, programs, and processes on China-related matters.

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak asked Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) about Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s claim that “extremism in the military” necessitates a 60-day “stand down” order across the armed services to address.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday ordered U.S. military commanders at every single unit across the force to focus for the next 60 days on discussing extremism with service members.

Former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel slammed the Biden Pentagon for blaming the Trump administration for a plan to vaccinate Guantanamo Bay detainees that garnered huge backlash from the public and Republican lawmakers after it was disclosed last week.

The Pentagon on Saturday announced it would pause a plan to vaccinate Guantanamo Bay detainees, after backlash from Americans unable to get the coronavirus vaccine.