Letter writers address DOGE attack on Naval Shipyard, cuts to Medicare and Social Security, Kittery's core educational values and more.

There are about 645 probationary employees at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard who are anxiously awaiting news of whether their positions are among those being eliminated in a purge of the federal workforce.

Amid fears of mass layoffs, employees at the Portsmouth Naval Yard in Kittery, Maine, have been ordered to list five accomplishments from the previous week, NBC affiliate NEWS CENTER Maine reports. Workers were initially told to ignore an email from the Office of Personnel Management requesting the information,

The Department of Defense initially paused the directive from the Office of Personnel Management, but all DOD civilian employees are now required to submit five bullet points on their previous week's achievements.