The Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Fort Benning, Ga., will drop its long-held Day 1 Ranger Physical Fitness Assessment of pushups, situps, chinups and a five-mile run for a new, nine-event test meant to better mimic the demands of combat.

Some cities across the country have gotten rid of fluoride from their water. A few months ago a federal judge ordered the EPA to regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could risk intellectual development, though experts say the amounts added to drinking water are below levels considered problematic.

An area grocer sets up shop every Tuesday inside the exchange at Kunsan Air Base where many airmen don’t have driving privileges and there are no local retailers within walking distance from the rural base’s gate.

Overall, the agency, which is responsible for monitoring infectious diseases, inspecting foods and hospitals and overseeing health insurance programs for nearly half the country, says it will decrease its workforce from 82,000 to 62,000 positions.

President Donald Trump will nominate Dr. Susan Monarez, the acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to the job, a White House official confirmed Monday.

The stand-alone clinic in Fort Carson, Colo., serves active-duty troops, veterans and their adult family members with a range of services, such as yoga, art, music, and physical therapy. Some interactive tools in the clinic help to test patients’ balance, ability to drive and reaction times.

A certified therapy dog from USO Fort Eustis in Newport News, Va., that can be counted on to provide emotional support to service members and their families was named the USO’s Canine Volunteer of the Year.

Veterans seeking transgender-related medical treatments “will have to do so on their own dime,” Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins said Monday, as he announced an end to health coverage for gender dysphoria.

Freedom Dogs, a nonprofit base in Oceanside, Calif., has been helping service members who are being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and other physical impairments, with trained service dogs.

A federal hiring freeze is affecting an office that provides mental health support to airmen and their families at Yokota Air Base.