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The decision reverses a Biden administration denial of a military funeral for Babbitt, 35, and comes months after the federal government settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Babbitt's family for nearly $5 million.
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The Navy reported Thursday that 100% of the San Diego- based USS Theodore Roosevelt's crewmembers have been tested for COVID-19, with 840 positive cases among the carrier's crew. -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling with shortages of workers at its health care facilities as it cares for veterans infected with the novel coronavirus. -
West Coast Marines have taken a number of steps to guard against COVID-19, but they are drawing the line at closing barber shops. -
Capt. Brett Crozier was fired by the acting Secretary of The Navy Thomas Modly, after a letter Crozier wrote, imploring the Navy to take more action to halt the bread of the coronavirus on board the USS Roosevelt. -
The Navy hospital ship Mercy is in Los Angeles to relieve the burden on the area's medical facilities. But it’s dealing with a growing number of coronavirus cases among members of its crew. -
Charles Robert Thacker Jr., 41, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, died Monday at the U.S. Naval Hospital Guam, four days after he was found unresponsive during a daily medical check. -
Early on in the outbreak it could take weeks to get test results, but the new system can have results within a few hours. -
The number of positive cases aboard the carrier now numbers nearly 600, with one of the four hospitalized sailors currently in the Intensive Care Unit "for increased observation due to shortness of breath," according to a Navy statement. -
The Navy has removed 126 medical staff members from its hospital ship docked off Los Angeles after seven of them tested positive for COVID-19. The personnel from the USNS Mercy were taken to a nearby base and remain under quarantine. -
A member of the crew of the coronavirus-infected USS Theodore Roosevelt died Monday of complications related to the disease, 11 days after the aircraft carrier's captain was fired for pressing his concern that the Navy had done too little to safeguard his crew. The sailor was the first active-duty military member to die of COVID-19.
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