Pentagon urged to test all service members and families
Two Republican senators call on the Defense Department to deploy rapid antigen COVID tests for all service members families civilian employees and contractors to detect asymptomatic cases. They urge follow up PCR testing and cite rising military cases 11000 plus deaths and an USS Michael Murphy outbreak as context.
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U.S
Defense Department
Joni Ernst
Iowa
Thom Tillis
R-N.c
Pentagon
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Hawaii
Matthew Donovan
Defense
Ernst and
Tillis
Hawaii National Guard
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Michael Murphy
NBC News
WWII veteran survives POW camps and forced march tale
Collinsville resident Bob Teichgraeber, a B 24 gunner, parachuted from a burning bomber during a February 1944 mission to Gotha Germany. He endured 421 days as a prisoner of war and a brutal 1945 forced march across Poland and northern Germany, later recovering at home at age 100 with his wife Rose.
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Ill
U.S. Army Air
Bob Teichgraeber
Gotha
Germany
Teichgraeber
Rose
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Tom Brokaw
Frankfurt
East Prussia
Poland
Elbe River
Robert Teichgraeber
Afghanistan
United States Air Force
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Belleville News-Democrat
Derik Holtmann
Navy report links oversight gaps to Pensacola shooting
A Navy investigation into the December 2019 NAS Pensacola attack finds lack of oversight of foreign aviation students and a culture of harassment and cultural insensitivity contributed to the incident. It cites self radicalization by 2nd Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani and weak cross command coordination as key factors.
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Washington
Naval Air Station Pensacola
Florida
John Meier
Naval Air Force Atlantic
Royal Saudi Air Force
Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani
William Barr
Alshamrani
United
2Nd Lt
Nas Pensacola
United States
Defense Department
Pentagon
Chris Garver
Timothy Kinsella
Defense
Mark Esper
U.S
FBI
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