The memo, signed Tuesday, stops new tenured appointments for civilians at the service academies, where civilians make up roughly half of the Naval Academy's about 600 faculty members.
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The memo stops new tenured appointments for civilians at the service academies.
The halt itself is well sourced by ABC, The Hill and Stars and Stripes. The scope is only partly supported: The Hill notes five academies, including the Coast Guard Academy under DHS and the Merchant Marine Academy under MARAD, and the story does not say whether a Defense memo reaches those two.