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Bad News for Immigrants Recruited to Military

The federal agency in charge of processing citizenship has shuttered all of its offices at US Army basic training locations, putting up another roadblock for immigrant recruits who were promised a fast track to citizenship in return for their service. It’s the strongest indication to date that the Trump administration may be planning to shelve […]

Immigrants in the Military

TV Ad Aims to Pressure Trump on Transgender Military Service

WASHINGTON — Activist groups are turning to television ads — including on President Donald Trump’s go-to station, Fox News — to pressure the White House into allowing transgender people to keep serving in the military. Trump has vowed to ban transgender troops from serving. He’ll be able to see the 30-second commercial as of Friday, […]

Transgender Military Members

Wounded Warrior Troops May Face Separation

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ controversial new “deploy or out” policy, which requires troops to become deployable within 12 months or face separation, comes with a built-in exemption for the combat wounded. But in designated “wounded warrior” units maintained by the services, those recovering from combat-related illness and injury form an increasingly small percentage of the total […]

Wounded Warriors

Putin: Russia Has “Invincible” Nukes

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Thursday dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s boasts about developing a new array of nuclear weapons, saying America’s missile defense is ready to protect the nation but is not directed at Russia. Putin claims that Moscow has tested weapons that cannot be intercepted and would make NATO’s missile defense “useless.” That […]

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One Vet with AR-15 Makes Himself School Guard

Enough is enough, says an armed U.S. Army veteran in Indiana who has decided to take student and teacher protection into his own hands after the horrifying Florida school shooting and threats of school violence rocked his own town. Mark Cowan says he is keeping watch outside North Side High School in Fort Wayne with his AR-15 and […]

School Security Guard

GOP Bill Would Make College Less Affordable

WASHINGTON – A bill proposed by Republicans in the House of Representatives could change the college-financing system dramatically, moving billions of dollars out of financial aid programs. If H.R. 4508, becomes law, college affordability would go from bad to worse, say many higher education experts, and students from low-income backgrounds would suffer most. Read More

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Report: U.S. Survivor Benefits Compare Well to Other Sectors

New studies released by RAND, an independent research and development group, found that the policies of the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) “generally compared well” to those of other public, private, federal and commercial plans. The assessment began at the request of Congress to compare the financial outreach to surviving members from different sectors. The chief […]

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Another Bill Addresses Jobs for Military Spouses

Lawmakers introduced the second bill in a month to help reduce military spouse unemployment, an issue that has been gaining traction in recent years. The newest bill, introduced Feb. 27, takes aim at a problem many military families face: childcare. The bill would set up a tax-free fund spending account for military families so they […]

Military Spouse

DOE Wants to Protect Student Debt Collectors

Student loan debt collectors have been accused of deceiving and abusing student borrowers and have been sued by attorneys general in a handful of states. Now, they may be getting some relief. The debt collectors, that is. Not their customers. In an internal document obtained by NPR, the U.S. Department of Education, under Secretary Betsy […]

Arming Teachers? Those with Military Training Are Scarce

During a speech Friday morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference, President Donald Trump claimed that 10 to 20 percent of American schoolteachers are “very gun-adept people.” He was responding to what he called a “fake news” claim that he wanted to arm schoolteachers — when he really meant he wants to arm teachers who are gun […]

Trump Never Consulted Military’s Top Officer on Transgender Troops

President Donald Trump announced last summer that his proposed ban on transgender people in the U.S. military was the product of “consultation” with “Generals and military experts.” But the country’s highest-ranking general, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford, wasn’t among those whom Trump consulted, according to emails unearthed Tuesday. Read More

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JROTC Trained Cruz to Shoot Well

Dozens of students who survived last week’s school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida have arrived in Tallahassee to push for new gun control measures. On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled Florida House of Representatives blocked a bid to bring up a bill to ban sales of assault-style rifles in the state. The Florida […]

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