The Department of the Air Force's new equal opportunity and harassment policy, rolled out to comply with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's directives, redefines key terms and empowers commanders to dismiss complaints they deem not actionable. The new rules also bar investigations based on anonymous complaints.
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Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said the lesson the Air Force and Space Force should take away from the sudden collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan is that divisions in that government and nation were responsible. Within the Department of the Air Force, he ...
Six of the the Department of the Air Force’s top leaders appeared together virtually Sept. 16, discussing the results of a recent racial and gender disparities survey released by the Air Force Inspector General. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall was joined in the town hall ...
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III is recommending that the military remove the prosecution of sexual assault and related crimes from the chain of command amid a Congressional push to reform military justice and an independent commission’s review of Defense Department policies. Austin, in a ...
A bipartisan group of more than 30 senators is sponsoring a bill that would overhaul military justice by taking the decision to prosecute serious crimes including sexual assault away from commanders to independent prosecutors. The Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act, unveiled April 29, ...
Congressional defense committees are moving forward on their work in 2021 with the addition of a few new faces and subcommittees. Senate leadership has hammered out the details of an organizing resolution that dictates how the evenly divided chamber will operate, opening the door for ...
