Civilian Contractor Dies of Heart Attack After Rocket Attack on Iraq Base
A U.S. Military Working Dog soldier and Polish engineer soldiers from Task Force Minecraft assist a Base Operating Support Integrator engineer Soldier with base perimeter inspections at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Jan. 27, 2021. (U.S. Army National Guard/Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)
3 Mar 2021
A civilian U.S. contractor died of a heart attack he suffered during a rocket attack at Iraq s Al Asad Air Base early Wednesday morning.
No U.S. service members were injured during the barrage of roughly 10 rockets fired at the base in western Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday. But the contractor had a heart attack while sheltering in place and died shortly afterward.
Marine Corps Gets Rid of Male-Only Underwear Allowance After Review
U.S. Marine Corps Recruits with Kilo Company, 2nd Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, wait for their uniforms to be tailored at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Aug. 29, 2018. (Yamil Casarreal/U.S. Marine Corps)
4 Mar 2021
The Marine Corps has removed a clothing replacement allowance for underwear that was only allotted to men and added a new replacement allowance for female dress pumps following an audit of policy.
A Government Accountability Office report released this month revealed systemic inequities in out-of-pocket clothing and uniform costs for male and female service members a reality colloquially known as the Pink Tax. The watchdog organization found that some enlisted women paid more than $8,000 out of pocket over the course of a career for clothing, while some men actually ended up with allowance overages they could pocket. The disparity, the GAO found, was largely the result of t