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The Biden Pentagon is planning to surveil members of the military’s social media accounts for “extremism” using a private surveillance firm.

The first active duty service member has been charged in connection to the January 6 Capitol breach on Thursday, out of the more than one thousand people estimated to have entered the Capitol building that day.

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

Wormuth said she is concerned about the implications of the Army’s test for combat fitness for retaining women.

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

The Pentagon has blamed coronavirus health concerns for the rejection of a permit for the Rolling to Remember motorcycle ride to honor POW/MIA veterans, according to event organizers.

California Congressman Darrell Issa (R) released a statement on Thursday calling on President Joe Biden to reverse a decision made by the Pentagon to reject a permit for the Rolling to Remember motorcycle ride to honor POW/MIA veterans.

The nation’s top military officer touted “diversity” as one of the United States military’s “key strengths” on Wednesday.

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 press secretary on Monday said he was unaware of any communications between the White House and the Defense Department about making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for troops, just days after National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said it was something the Pentagon was “looking at” doing.

Under President Joe Biden’s leadership, the Pentagon has rejected a permit for the annual Rolling to Remember motorcycle ride that is held in Washington, DC, each Memorial Day to honor POW/MIA veterans.

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

Afghan news outlets, citing CNN, reported Tuesday that the administration of President Joe Biden would soon deploy another 650 troops to Afghanistan, where Biden expanded the U.S. presence through at least September in an order this month.

The vast majority of the Gitmo prisoners have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the U.S. military announced.

The chief of the Pentagon’s Central Command said on Tuesday that the U.S. military is planning to keep troops near Afghanistan after the delayed withdrawal planned for September 11, 2021.

Sen. Dan Sullivan blasted a Democrat colleague for suggesting as much as ten percent of the military could be white supremacists or adhere to “extremist ideology.”

Neo-conservatives and foreign policy establishment figures unsurprisingly blasted the Biden Administration for its plans to continue the Trump administration’s drawdown of American forces from Afghanistan, and they issued dire warnings if President Joe Biden were to go through with it.

The Pentagon is looking into better screening recruits’ and service members’ social media as part of its effort to get rid of “extremism” in the United States military, according to a recent memo from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

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

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

The State Department intends to spend $2.5 million to establish the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The new diversity and inclusion chief for the U.S. military’s Special Operations Command, Richard Torres-Estrada, has been reassigned amid an investigation into politically-charged social media posts he made before he was hired, a spokesman told Breitbart News on Monday.

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

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) ripped a House Armed Services Committee hearing on “extremism in the military” as “total nonsense.”

The Pentagon said in a statement Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris “has made very clear her respect and admiration” for the military after she received flak for not returning salutes by the Air Force honor guard welcoming her aboard Air Force Two.

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 Army is allowing soldiers to skip the “leg tuck” from the Army Combat Fitness Test amid statistics showing women struggling with it.

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.

Guam Rep. San Nicolas led a group of Guam National Guard members to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office on Monday in a political stunt.

The Pentagon’s attack on Fox News and Tucker Carlson suggests that the Biden administration is willing to use the military as a political weapon.

The National Guard Bureau Chief reportedly opposed keeping National Guard troops at the Capitol but was overridden by Defense Secretary Austin.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s riff on Biden focusing on inclusivity for women has sparked anger from progressives in the military.