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Each week on Tuesdays and Fridays our team will bring you analysis of military tech, tactics, and doctrine delivered from a rank-and-file perspective.Marine Corps ### Sailors and Marines to be counseled after 6 months of medical shaving waiversBoth sailors and Marines with medical waivers for facial hair grooming standards will be counseled after six continuous months of treatment.News ### Publicizing special operator identities could be a crime under proposed lawThe identity of special operations troops could soon get the same legal protections as spies and other intelligence agents.Air Force ### Air Force plans to keep its M18 pistolsThe Air Force’s small arms budget is focused on “older and higher priority weapons,” a service spokesperson said.Army ### Army expected to add counter-drone laser weapons to base defensesIf fielded, the Enduring High Energy Laser would protect bases from drones.Army ### Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaintsSoldiers will only be able to make “confidential” reports and the Army will aim for more mediation and facilitation instead of full-blown investigations.Army ### After specialist contacts congressman, Army admits soldiers got ‘sub-optimal’ food“Due to high employee turnover and staffing shortages, the meal service was sub-optimal for 4th Infantry Division soldiers,” an Army colonel wrote to a member of Congress.By Nicholas Slayton, Jeff SchogolAir Force ### New airman records perfect score at a top Air Force intelligence schoolSignals intelligence, or SIGINT, is one of the hardest jobs in the Air Force to qualify for. A perfect score in the training course is unprecedented, officials said.Korean War ### Navy christens new destroyer named for corpsman who earned Medal of HonorThe future Navy destroyer honors William Charette, who as a Navy corpsman risked his own safety to protect Marines during brutal combat.