'How to stop it': Congress asks what the military is doing about white nationalism in its ranks

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Cory Reeves lost a stripe for allegedly distributing white supremacist propaganda while stationed at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado in 2019. He remained in the military.

Officials from the Pentagon and the individual services told House Armed Services Committee members on Tuesday how differing and unclear policies, training, and enforcement, and the blurry distinction between “active participation” and “membership” in an extremist group, have allowed avowed white supremacists to remain in the armed forces. The witnesses appeared at a personnel subcommittee hearing entitled “Alarming Incidents of White Supremacy in the Military — How to Stop It?”