The Army Needs Hundreds of Officers to Leave Combat Arms
The Army is seeking 300 lieutenants from oversaturated combat arms fields to voluntarily transfer into understaffed roles. Lieutenants currently branched in armor, infantry, combat engineer and field artillery can apply between Jan. 7 and Feb. 17 to transfer to adjutant general, air defense, finance, logistics and signal corps, the service announced in November. Additionally, the […]
Army Makes It Harder for Commanders to Deny Soldiers Leave for Abortions
The Army has set new policies making it more difficult for units to deny soldiers’ requests to take leave to receive reproductive care including abortions, according to a force-wide memo. The strict new policies strip company-level commanders, usually a captain, of any authority to deny a soldier’s request to take leave and travel for care, […]
Army Secretary to Remind Commanders They Can’t Deny Soldiers’ Parental Leave
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth plans to issue a servicewide reminder that soldiers are broadly entitled to parental leave and that the time off can be denied only by a general, according to an unsigned draft copy of the memo reviewed by Military.com. The memo comes after Military.com in recent months interviewed two soldiers who say […]
