Meghann Myers
Pentagon bureau chief
Meghann Myers is the Pentagon bureau chief at Military Times. She covers operations, policy, personnel, leadership and other issues affecting service members.
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Services were slow to process COVID vaccine exemptions, watchdog finds
A Pentagon evaluation found some services taking too long to process COVID vaccine exemption paperwork.
The Defense Department isn’t meeting its readiness goals, report finds
While readiness measures for ground combat have increased, seapower has been on the decline.
They risked their lives to help us. How Biden can fix the troubled “terp” visa program
It takes years to get a special immigrant visa, time that Afghan interpreters may not have.
Active-duty suicide numbers level off after summer spike, but reserves soar
The National Guard's suicide numbers exploded at the end of 2020, after a particularly stressful year.
Troops may face retaliation whether they report a sexual assault or not, study finds
Roughly a third of sexual assault survivors feel their peers or leadership have retaliated against them.
SOCOM is committing itself to attracting more women and people of color
Special operations wants to diversify its ranks, but it will first have to figure out how to do that.
More troops are taking the COVID-19 vaccine, including those who rejected it before
About 30 percent of the force is vaccinated, according to the head of the Defense Health Agency.
Pentagon says ‘all options on the table’ as lawmakers push to take sexual assault prosecutions out of chain of command
As the Pentagon gets its independent commission underway, the Senate held a hearing on sexual assault in the military.
Unaccompanied children arriving at US-Mexico border could be housed at two bases in Texas
Unaccompanied minors could be housed on military installations while their asylum cases are adjudicated.
Some troops disappointed by check-the-block extremism stand-downs, others laud commanders
Service members told Military Times that their extremism stand-down training wasn't very effective.
