House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-Tex.) is not participating in the President Bush roundup to lasso a greater role in natural disaster response for the Pentagon. He flatly told the Associated Press, “I don’t want the federal government to take over disaster response.” His reason: “Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy.
Trainees in Basic Military Training and technical school no longer have the option to try alternate PT drills if they fail an initial assessment, according to a policy change the Air Force made in April. The move is part of a larger shift out of the classroom and into hands-on,…