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Over the past 8 years, Jeff Schogol has been a steadfast and reliable teammate, a trusted voice for our audience, and the heart of Task & Purpose. Today is his last day, and as he leaves, we want to take a moment to reflect on his incredible contributions and the impact his work has had.

Jeff has broken huge national stories, like the scapegoating of an aircraft carrier captain during the COVID-19 pandemic, which came together after a successful lawsuit against the Navy for a trove of internal emails that rebuffed the official narrative,

and his reporting on systemic failures in an Army airborne unit that led to a fatal mishap. Those stories were about accountability, but told through the eyes of service members.

Even his final story for T&P, published just this morning, about the punishment a sailor might face for jumping overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, shows how Jeff has always found a way to make everyday servicemen and women the center of the military’s biggest national news stories.