Another state has joined an interstate agreement to ease school transitions for children from military families, bringing the overall tally of member states to 40, a Defense Department official announced yesterday.
Never a Nazi supporter, he deplored compulsory Hitler Youth time. Finally he got out. In 1940, the Gestapo arrested, then released him. His Wehrmacht conscription suspended his young theatrical career.
Kimberly Stahlman, widow of Colonel USMC, is fighting to prove that her husband did not commit suicide but was instead murdered. However, the Marine Corps refuses to help.
Air Force Master Sgt. Charles Halcome stood at a hospital bed, laying out vials and pointing out medical instruments to be used to treat an incoming patient.
Navy Seal Sean Day was carrying a pistol in New York City. SEALS can do this as “first tier” counter-terrorism forces. Their authority is far beyond that of local police, even NYPD, America’s most corrupt law enforcement agency.
The U.S. has chided governments for unleashing the armed forces against their own citizens…
Former CIA Director Panetta condemns Marines peeing on dead Taliban with “utterly deplorable” comment. Ain’t that the pot calling the kettle black? .
Two US Marines in abuse video identified. No Heroes Here! Just Shameless and Pathetic Vulgarity
The Marine Corps should immediately stop prosecuting Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, on trial now for illegal killings in Haditha; and also release Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins, convicted of premeditated murder arising from Hamdaniya.
As a religious program specialist, Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class James Vanzella protects chaplains and helps them with their daily duties and coordinates religious services.
I began this series of articles on the forty facts you should know about why many see America as being on the decline.
In physics there’s a phenomena known as the “Observer Effect” in which the mere act of watching atoms and other sub-atomic matter actually changes their actions.
President Barack Obama today announced a defense strategy he said will allow the military to defend the United States and its national interests while cutting military spending in a responsible, balanced manner.
I seldom get moved about a movie, or a cause, beyond the confines of my own home, where I take time for my own kids every day, day after day, week after week.
The season of giving has come and gone, and like a lot of you, I walked by the bell ringers of the Salvation Army every day during my shopping and the requests for my charity dollars came pouring in from the United Way, the American Red Cross and even UNICEF.
With a government that can’t seem to get its act together this is a scary situation, particularly when just in the last five years the number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared tenfold and doubled since President Obama took office, a USA TODAY analysis finds, and yet they seek budget cuts in the VA system.
I’m torn between the pleasure of having just read a brilliant and moving first-person stream-of-consciousness account of a true story of one woman’s childhood, and the deep sadness that comes from learning about the absolutely horrific hell that this woman is extremely lucky to have survived — a hell that many others have known and will know, despite the ease with which it might be prevented.
Defense Department officials today released the “Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies,” covering the academic year from June 1, 2010, to May 31, 2011.
Opposition to the VA San Diego Healthcare System opening a veterans’ treatment center in Old Town has turned ugly.
Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital received the prestigious Seven Seals Award from the Illinois Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), today in a special ceremony.
Government, business, social service and military leaders are working together on strategies to insure that the nearly 10,000 children of active-duty military in Connecticut get help and support when they need it, particularly children of members of the National Guard and Reserves.
Sometimes there is meaning even in worse-case scenarios
What was intended to be a demonstration of power turned into the most costly boomerang in history, in both blood and treasure. by George Galloway
The last time I saw Matt Hevezi was six years ago. He was bunking behind a skateboard shop in a hardscrabble Oceanside neighborhood.
We have paid an obscene price for the so-called war on terror, which has benefited none other than 1) Israel and 2) American energy corporations.
Veterans Today is the continual recipient of intelligence, much of which is quite unreportable. There is enough chaos without us making it worse. Thus, we are censors, though unlike Wikileaks, we don’t take direction from the New York Times or the Israeli ambassador.
I admit upfront that I know even less than you do (the reader), about the twisted and fragmented history of Israel and it’s interactions with Arab and non-Arab neighbors in the middle east.
The economy doesn’t help the warrior’s transitioning challenge
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