The package being sent includes about $700 million for tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar rounds, sources said.
The military's complex medical waiver process, which can vary by service and state, has barred potential recruits with well-managed mental health issues.
A U.S. B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan – an important military center with a civilian population close to 300,000.
A combat infantryman during WWII, he served as a librarian for the Armed Forces Network after the war and sang with an army big band in occupied Germany.