The accuracy rate of the data was supposed to be at least 90 percent, but the IG found errors in 24 of the 25 registry records they reviewed.
The annual defense authorization bill debate in the House focused mainly on hot-button social issues.
The former CO of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, fired for his efforts to help his sailors, regrets nothing: "I did it out of love for my crew."
The end of the national pandemic emergency also ended extra support services for homeless veterans.
Visitors and patients will no longer be required to wear masks at all times at the health care sites.
The changes will begin with workers in the Washington, D.C. headquarters starting this fall.
When the national COVID-19 emergency ended earlier this month, about $2.1 billion in extra money for veterans support remained unused.
Aid programs for homeless vets will end unless Congress speeds through new legislation.
Increases were seen in the Navy and the Marines, too.
By Jonel Aleccia, AP
Controversy around the COVID-19 vaccine may have increased general anti-vaccine sentiments in military.
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