Despite the Senate’s recent moves to fill the final vacancies remaining on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks yesterday said the blanket hold on nearly 370 other military confirmations and promotions still in place from Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is hurting military readiness. “We've said many times in the last six-plus months that the hold is unnecessary, unprecedented and unsafe, and that it's bad for our military, it's bad for our military families, it's bad for...
