The decision is the latest move by Pete Hegseth to purge references to diversity, equity and inclusion. Harvey Milk was among the first openly gay candidates elected to public office.
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An unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout helicopter crashed into the side of the littoral combat ship USS Charleston during a training exercise in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
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The latest report from the Regional Task Force on the Homeless shows the number of people entering homelessness for the first time nearly doubled from 2,326 in 2019 to 4,152 in 2020.
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Congress gave the Marines until 2028 to integrate the West Coast boot camp. In the short term, the future is uncertain for female recruits in San Diego.
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Marines are training in seafaring tanks for the first time since nine men died when one of the troop carriers sank off the Southern California coast during an exercise last summer.
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The investigation is still underway to find the cause of the blaze which destroyed the Wasp-class Navy Vessel which had been undergoing maintenance in San Diego.
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Biden has been hinting for weeks that he was going to let the deadline lapse, and as the days went by it became clear that an orderly withdrawal of the remaining 2,500 troops would be difficult.
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Congress has told the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer COVID-19 vaccines to some 24 million people who don't usually get their health care through the VA.
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Guests will have to undergo temperature screenings to enter the installation, face coverings will be mandatory, and "strict" social distancing will be expected.
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KPBS Midday EditionAfter the January 6 Capitol insurrection, the Pentagon ordered all service branches to discuss extremism with the troops. But observers say that's only a first step toward eliminating extremist behavior.
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The Marine Corps has launched a probe looking at the readiness of its troops before they participated in an exercise that ended in tragedy with the sinking of a seafaring tank off the Southern California coast that killed eight Marines and one sailor last summer, officials said Tuesday.
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