U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin is among the speakers at the University of South Carolina's spring's commencement exercises, which are being held in-person at the school's massive football stadium for the first time.
MilGears, which aggregates a service member’s entire unique record of training and education accomplishments into a single location, is a game-changing online DoD platform, says the author of this commentary.
In remarks during the virtual ceremony, President Joe Biden paid tribute to the 4.7 million who served in the war, and the 116,516 Americans who lost their lives in it.
The Army Corps of Engineers dedicated a pair of survey boats for Staff Sgt. Vernon W. Martin and Spc. Christopher J. Holland, two fallen soldiers with local ties to coastal Georgia.