Personnel

More than 1,283 National Guard members supported civil authorities and took part in events on June 14 when the U.S. Army celebrated its 250th birthday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a memo Thursday that transgender service members in the National Guard and Reserve will have 60 days to voluntarily self-separate or be forced out.

More than 65% of National Guard and Reserve personnel can be classified as overweight or obese, according to a recent American Security Project report, citing 2017 data.

The Army is embarking on a sweeping transformation, according to a letter to the force last week from senior Army leaders.

The Army announced its fitness test will undergo several changes designed to improve Soldier fitness, combat readiness and lethality, according to a press release.

The nation’s governors are alarmed by indications that Space Force leadership is “aggressively pushing a plan to fully implement Legislative Proposal 480 and remove Air National Guard space units from states by the end of the year.”

The Defense Department is stepping up efforts to bring back service members involuntarily separated for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, a career Air National Guard officer, is now the president’s senior military advisor.

The Army plans to cut nearly a dozen mandatory training programs for its Soldiers to make more time available for unit-specific combat readiness tasks, service officials said last week.

Retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, President Donald Trump’s pick for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during his nomination hearing Tuesday that “our number one job is to create peace through overwhelming strength, and if need be, fight and win our nation's wars."

Examples of combat-arms specialties include infantry, artillery, armor, cavalry and special operations forces.