Fauci, first lady, military leaders urge dubious military families to get the facts on COVID-19 vaccine February 4 Kathy Roth-Douquet, CEO of Blue Star Families, left, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, participate in a town hall. (screenshot via YouTube) After their recent poll showed that more than half of military families don’t plan to get the COVID-19 vaccination, Blue Star Families brought in the big guns including Dr. Anthony Fauci, first lady Jill Biden, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his wife Hollyanne to urge military families to get the facts before making their decisions.
The PCS penalty and the Army family Paul Kearney February 2 A soldier supervises the delivery and unpacking of her household items on Wheeler Army Airfield. (Army) As the Army reevaluates its talent management systems, it has focused on ways that it can make better promotion and selection decisions. New programs have been created like the Battalion Commander’s Assessment Program (BCAP) and formerly ubiquitous requirements like the Department of the Army Photo have fallen into the trash heap of history. These changes are essential steps towards ensuring that officers are selected for the most critical positions without implicit biases negatively impacting the meritocratic process. However, it is not enough to simply seek out the best and brightest fish in the pond; we need to build a bigger pond and fill it with more fish. Current diversity and inclusion efforts, though laudable, are focused on making sure that those who are best within the system get promoted. Unfo