Defense bill puts brakes on Pentagon plan to reduce uniformed medical jobs

Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 5 a.m.

b'Each of the military armed services has been moving to reduce its numbers of uniformed health care clinicians. The Defense Department wants to partly replace that workforce with civilian doctors and nurses to free up military billets for other missions. But Congress isn\\u2019t thrilled with the idea. And as Federal News Network\\u2019s Jared Serbu reports, the final agreement on this year\\u2019s National Defense Authorization Act throws up a roadblock. Hear more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'