The purge was a response to President Donald Trump’s executive order to remove materials related to “DEI.” However, Arlington officials also said materials could be restored after review and possible revision to meet the requirements of Trump’s and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s orders.

The new filings brings the total to 29 cadets and prospective cadets have filed complaints, and lawyers expect more claims will come. The former cadets claim they were assaulted or abused by their peers while attending the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and blame academy rules.

The USS Nimitz, commissioned in 1975 just days after the fall of Saigon ended the Vietnam War, is slated to move from the naval base at Bremerton, which is west of Seattle on Puget Sound, to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., by April 2026.

The Army is facing $210 million in claims from 42 soldiers and veterans who say they were victims of Maj. Michael Stockin, the Army doctor at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., serving a nearly 14-year sentence for sexually abusing patients.

An FBI report on the case said Joseph Schmidt left the Army in 2020 and went on a globe-trotting trip to Beijing, Istanbul and Hong Kong to try to meet with Chinese security agents, who he hoped would hire him. The FBI said it was uncertain the Chinese ever met with Schmidt.

The internal medicine clinic at the Navy’s third largest base in the United States is now staffed with one doctor for 2,200 patients, forcing officials to move one-third of the backlog of cases to medical care off the base.

Former Staff Sgt. Cameron James Taylor returned to the Seattle area after leaving the Army with an other-than-honorable discharge, where he was convicted in 2019 for sexually assaulting a five-year-old child. Investigators interviewed other children who had been in contact with him and uncovered a 2012 incident that took place at Lewis-McChord.

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for Seaman Bryan K. Lee, who was reported missing from the Cutter Waesche while operating in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Sgt. Jacob M. Durham died Thursday in the crash of an aircraft that was conducting a routine mission “providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,” officials at Camp Pendleton, Calif., said. The cause of the crash is under investigation.

Air Force engineers and archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a food cache on the Upper Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage used 1,000 years ago to store food.