Highest-ranking transgender veteran reacts to Trump order targeting trans service members – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump signed an executive order on Monday requiring the military to re-examine its policy allowing transgender people to serve openly. Sheri Swokowski, a retired Army colonel who is the highest-ranking, openly transgender veteran in the U.S., joins … Read more
U.S. troops head to southern border as deportations continue – CBS News Watch CBS News The U.S.-Mexico border has been very active since President Trump took office last week. While more troops head to the border, the U.S. is ramping up its deportation efforts. CBS News correspondent Jason Allen has more from outside Fort Bliss … Read more
President Trump signed multiple executive orders Monday night that could reshape the management and composition of the military, with provisions addressing diversity measures, transgender service members, and troops who were discharged for refusing COVID vaccinations. One order would reinstate members of the military who were discharged for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. About 8,200 … Read more
China targets U.S. service members on social media in “virtual espionage,” feds say – CBS News Watch CBS News Chinese spies are targeting U.S. service members on social media in an effort to get American military secrets, U.S. federal officials say. Jim Axelrod has more on the growing problem. Be the first to know Get … Read more
The Chinese intelligence officer who convinced Thomas Zhao to hand over sensitive information about the U.S. military seemed to know the 24-year-old U.S. Navy petty officer had a passion for the stock market. The agent approached Zhao in a stock trading chat group on the Chinese-owned social media network WeChat, CBS News learned in interviews … Read more
A United States pilot who disappeared while conducting a spy mission during the Vietnam War has finally been accounted for, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 12th Tactical Fighter Wing, 7th Air Force in September 1967, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency … Read more