Microsoft training academy goes virtual, boosting efforts to prep veterans for tech careers militarytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from militarytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Air Force postpones physical fitness tests to July March 5 The Air Force announced it is delaying resuming physical fitness assessments until July. (Master Sgt. Efrain Gonzalez/Air Force) The resumption of physical fitness tests for airmen and guardians, which had been paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been delayed again. Rather than restart in April, which was the plan, Air Force officials announced that physical fitness tests will now resume in July. Commanders will also have the ability to push the tests back even further if necessary based on the recommendations of local public health officials. “This is the right decision for our Airmen, to ensure we are getting after controlling the spread of COVID and ensuring we take the right steps to build a fitness lifestyle in our Air Force, rather than Airmen who can just pass a fitness test,” Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne Bass said Thursday in a Facebook post.
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Oldest living Marine Corps veteran passes away at age 107 January 15 Dorothy (Schmidt) Cole enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of 29 following the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Marine Corps) The nation’s oldest living Marine veteran died of a heart attack on Jan. 7. Sgt. Dorothy “Dot” (Schmidt) Cole enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1943 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The 29-year-old initially had attempted to join the Navy two years earlier but was told she didn’t meet their height standards. The Marine Corps recognized Cole, born Sept. 19, 1913, in Warren, Pennsylvania, as the oldest living Marine in 2020 on her 107th birthday.