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Lawmakers Push to Arm Teachers, Hire Ex-Military or Former Police as Guards

As the recent school shootings have raised serious concerns over gun laws and student safety, lawmakers are considering measures to arm teachers or hire military and police veterans as school guards. Alabama lawmakers have pushed forward a bill that would allow for some teachers to have firearms on K-12 school properties. The bill, HB 435, […]

Arming Teachers With Guns

Trump Order Bans Most Transgender Troops

President Donald Trump released an order Friday night banning most transgender troops from serving in the military except under “limited circumstances,” following up on his calls last year to ban transgender individuals from serving. The White House said retaining troops with a history or diagnosis of “gender dysphoria” — those who may require substantial medical […]

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Bill to Help Medics Transition Becomes Law

A bill to help former military medics transition into the workforce is now law in Maine. It gives qualified veterans with healthcare training the ability to utilize their military credentials when seeking civilian employment. About 400 military veterans in Maine have obtained valuable skills, training, and experience in healthcare while serving their country. A bill […]

Military Medics Bill

Former CIA Spy Unveils World of Espionage

She was an international spy and former counterterrorism officer with the CIA who once escaped ISIS, and now Michele Rigby Assad is an author with a powerful message to tell the world. She does so through her recently released book, “Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What it Taught Me About What’s […]

Teacher Fired for Tirade on the Military

A history teacher who was videotaped telling his students that only dumb people join the U.S. military has been fired by the suburban Southern California school district where he has taught for more than 15 years. El Rancho Unified School District President Aurora R. Villon announced Gregory Salcido’s dismissal at Tuesday night’s school board meeting. […]

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AP Found Nearly 400 Cases of Sexual Assault Among Children on Bases

The Pentagon says it does not know how often the children of service members sexually assault one another on military bases. To answer that question, The Associated Press filed dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests with the main law enforcement agencies for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, as well as with the […]

Children Assaulted on Bases

Parents: Military Ignored Girls’ Abuse on Base

The three military fathers sat at the commander’s conference table on the U.S. Army base in Germany, pleading for help. They told the commander that their daughters were among a half-dozen girls sexually assaulted by a boy in their first-grade class at the base school. The principal had known about the boy’s behavior for months, […]

Girls Abused at Base School

AP Finds U.S. Military Overlooks Sex Abuse Among Kids on Bases

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and rapes among kids on military […]

Sex Abuse on Bases

Military Officers Take Priorities to Capitol Hill

Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) will take veteran health care and benefit priorities to Capitol Hill this week. Retired Navy Cmdr. René A. Campos, MOAA’s senior director of government relations for veterans-wounded warrior care, will highlight veteran-facing priorities before the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs committees on March 14, 2018. “MOAA is committed to […]

Armed Guard at VA Head’s Door Highlights Tentions

Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin has posted an armed guard outside his office as the department falls into a power struggle that is “killing the agency,” The Washington Post reports. VA appointees described the work environment as “toxic” and there have been reports of a coup within the agency, according to The Post, which […]

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Bill Would Allow Aid for Noncollege Options

WASHINGTON — Service members could use their military tuition assistance for training programs outside of traditional colleges and universities under legislation being introduced Monday in the House and Senate. The plan, offered by a bipartisan group of lawmakers in each chamber, would allow eligible troops to use the money for licensing, credentialing and certification programs […]

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Army Corps Predicted Houston Flooding Lawsuits

A report determined that the Army Corps of Engineers knew of possible lawsuits from homeowners living near reservoirs in west Houston, Texas but that residents had a slim chance of winning if the areas experience any mass flooding. According to the Associated Press, the Corps decided not to retrofit the Addicks and Barker reservoirs when […]

Houston Flooding Lawsuits

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