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The Navy has taken the unusual step of reversing its plan to institute a six-day workweek for its entire recruiting workforce just days after the move was reported by Military.com.
Airmen who just joined the Air Force and want to do another job will get more options to keep them from leaving the service under a new policy, a move aimed at keeping the ranks filled amid a military-wide recruiting crisis and projected staffing shortages.
The expansion of the Navy's drone operations will coincide with the start of UNITAS -- a military exercise that's held annually in South America -- this July.
Without state facilities and a VA program that provides grants to non-federal veterans cemeteries, the department would be 17% shy of its target to ensure veterans can be buried closer to home.