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The Army is reaching out to its retired community for volunteers in the fight against coronavirus, according to an email sent to retirees.

The Navy is deploying two hospital ships to treat non-coronavirus patients to help alleviate a potential strain on civilian hospitals.

The Pentagon said it was deploying its two hospital ships at the direction of the president to assist with the nation’s coronavirus response.

The Pentagon will provide up to five million N-95 respirator masks and 2,000 specialized ventilators from its strategic reserves.

The DOD has not received requests for facilities, equipment, and personnel, but is looking at options to help deal with coronavirus.

The DOD has halted all domestic travel for troops, civilians, and their families assigned to bases and other facilities within the U.S.

Gen. Robert Abrams said Friday that trends in South Korea “are trending downward and looking good” in terms of the spread of coronavirus.

President Donald Trump awarded former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. (Ret.) Jack Keane the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a White House ceremony on Tuesday.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul A. Friedrichs said Trump is “right” that the seasonal flu is more dangerous than the coronavirus.

The Army’s top infectious disease researcher said there is one thing Americans can do to avoid getting the coronavirus: Wash your hands.

Trump’s firing of John Rood is a sign that the Pentagon will not be immune from an effort to purge Never Trumpers from the administration.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged for attempting to blow up a vehicle in the Pentagon parking lot Monday morning, federal prosecutors announced. 

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division who deployed to the Middle East in January amid a crisis with Iran arrived home on Thursday.

The Pentagon’s top policy official, John Rood, is leaving his position at the end of the month, the department announced on Wednesday.

President Trump’s Defense Department has secured an additional $3.8 billion to construct more border wall along the United States-Mexico border. 

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has introduced a series of sweeping foreign policy bills, including one that would let Congress limit the president’s power to place international sanctions and declare national emergencies.

The Pentagon has identified 11 military bases as potential quarantine centers for Americans suffering from the coronavirus, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Tuesday.

The Pentagon on Monday afternoon updated its numbers on how many U.S. service members suffered from mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) after Iran fired ballistic missiles at an Iraqi base where they were stationed.

The Trump administration’s 2021 defense budget request proposes a 3% military pay raise, just slightly below the 3.1 percent in 2020.

Esper sent a memo to the Pentagon urging them to remain “apolitical” and avoid any actions that could imply political endorsement.

The Pentagon’s Central Command confirmed late Thursday that 11 American troops showed symptoms of concussions strong enough to be flown out of Iraq following an Iranian ballistic missile attack that President Donald Trump claimed left no casualties. Iranian state media claimed the regime’s attack killed 80 Americans.

Amazon is reportedly doubling down on its attempt to block Microsoft from a lucrative Pentagon contract for cloud computing worth $10 billion, the latest twist in the e-commerce giant’s ongoing dispute with the Trump administration over the awarding of the contract.

Iran’s rubber-stamp parliament voted to expand an April 2019 bill declaring U.S. Central Command a terrorist organization to all of the Pentagon following the elimination of Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani. 

Pentagon leaders defended the U.S. military strike against Soleimani, saying intelligence showed he was planning “imminent” combat operations.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed “harsh vengeance” against the United States following an airstrike that killed Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Major General Qasem Soleimani on Thursday.

Department of Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Tuesday evening that he has approved the deployment of 750 U.S. soldiers to the Middle East following an attack by pro-Iran forces on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

U.S. warplanes struck targets in Iraq and Syria over the weekend, killing at least 25 members of an Iran-backed Shiite militia group called Kataib Hezbollah that was held responsible for a rocket attack on Friday that killed an American civilian contractor.

President Donald Trump signed into a law a defense bill on Friday that ushered in significant reforms for military families.

An American service member was killed in action in Afghanistan on Sunday, just two days before Christmas, the Pentagon announced.

The 2020 Pentagon spending bill contains a camouflaged provision allowing any U.S. president to amnesty millions of illegal immigrants — regardless of the shock to Americans’ wages, workplaces, and communities, says a former immigration judge.

The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered an operational pause in training Saudi military students at its bases, following a deadly shooting.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that the Trump administration has been “very aggressive” with Russia, contrary to critics’ assertion.

President Donald Trump asked Pentagon officials why America bears the burden of militarily defending Europe, said White House biographer Doug Wead, author of Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher thanked President Donald Trump for intervening in his case on Sunday and prohibiting the Navy from pulling his Trident pin.

Gallagher’s long fight with the Navy is finally over, with the firing of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and an order from Trump.

Esper said Monday he fired Spencer because Spencer had gone behind his back on handling the case of Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher.