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Too fat to fight: A third of young Americans not fit for army, says study
According to the US Defense Department, obesity is one of the top reasons why a stunning 71% of Americans aged 17-24 do not meet the military's sign-up requirements
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US Army to allow turbans, karas, beards, hijabs for sikhs and muslims
The New York Police Department changed its rules last month to allow Sikhs to wear turbans and keep their beards
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US Army allows turbans, beards, hijabs for servicemen
The new set of rules allows religious accommodations to be approved at the brigade-level
US army fudged its accounts by trillions
The Defense Department's Inspector General, in a June report, said the Army made $2.8 trillion in wrongful adjustments to accounting entries in one quarter alone in 2015, and $6.5 trillion for the year. Yet the Army lacked receipts and invoices to support those numbers or simply made them up.As a result, the Army's financial statements for 2015 were "materially misstated," the report concluded. The "forced" adjustments rendered the statements useless because "DoD and Army managers could not rely on the data in their accounting systems when making management and resource decisions." Disclosure of the Army's manipulation of numbers is the latest example of the severe accounting problems plaguing the Defense Department for decades.The report affirms a 2013 Reuters series revealing how the Defense Department falsified accounting on a large scale as it scrambled to close its books. Hence, there has been no way to know how the Defense Department spends the public's money.The new report focus
US Army special forces accepts first female candidates
President Barack Obama's administration decided in 2013 that all combat positions should be open to women by 2016
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