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Trump Plans to Cut 80,000 Employees from Veterans Affairs
Associated Press - Wed Mar 5, 2025
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health care for retired military members, according to an internal memo obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. More»

Trump fires General CQ Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
ABC - Sat Feb 22, 2025
President Donald Trump announced Friday night that he had fired General CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and intends to nominate recently retired Air Force Lieutenant General Dan "Razin" Caine" to be his successor. More»

Pentagon Officials Discussing How to Respond if Trump Issues Controversial Orders
CNN - Sat Nov 9, 2024
Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN. More»

Atlanta VA Begins Processing Mail That Sat for Ten Months Following Investigation
WSB-TV - Tue Sep 21, 2021
ATLANTA, Georgia — Thousands of pieces of mail were moved to a basement at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and left there for months. More»

Pentagon To Require COVID Vaccine For All Troops By September 15th
Associated Press - Mon Aug 9, 2021
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will require members of the US military to get the COVID-19 vaccine by September 15, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. More»

Military aircraft crashes in Nevada residential neighborhood near Air Force base
Post Millinial - Mon May 24, 2021
A military aircraft crashed Monday into the backyard of a home near the Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada. More»

US military recorded ‘a lot more’ UFO sightings than made public, says ex-intelligence director
The Telegraph - Mon Mar 22, 2021
There have been "a lot more" UFO sightings than has previously been made public, Donald Trump's former intelligence chief has said, as the US government prepares to release a declassified report on unidentified flying objects. More»

Air Force Investigating After Man Sneaks Onto Plane At Joint Base Andrews
Huffington Post - Fri Feb 5, 2021
CAMP SPRINGS, Maryland - Officials at Joint Base Andrews say they are investigating after a man gained unauthorized access to an aircraft parked on base Thursday. More»

Joint Chiefs Remind U.S. Forces That They Defend The Constitution
NPR - Tue Jan 12, 2021
The US Joint Chiefs of Staff reminded American forces Tuesday of their oath to defend the Constitution following the attacks on the Capitol building last week. More»

Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
Politico - Thu Dec 17, 2020
The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the US nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, officials directly familiar with the matter said. More»

Stung by Social Media, Trump Threatens to Veto $1 Trillion Defense Bill
News and Guts - Wed Dec 2, 2020
President Trump’s ongoing feud with social media companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter has taken a serious turn: he’s threatening to veto a nearly $1 trillion funding bill for the US military if he doesn’t get his way. More»

U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
Vice - Wed Nov 18, 2020
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military. More»

Trump: Americans Who Died In War Are ‘Losers’ And ‘Suckers’
The Atlantic - Thu Sep 3, 2020
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic. More»

Trump Sending Military to Hospitals to "Oversee" COVID-19 Data
Daily KOS - Wed Jul 15, 2020
There are a number of jobs that the National Guard has been trained to perform. More»

General James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution
The Atlantic - Wed Jun 3, 2020
James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. More»

Trump Declares War On His Own Country
CNN - Mon Jun 1, 2020
Declaring himself "your president of law and order," President Donald Trump vowed Monday to return order to American streets using the military if widespread violence isn't quelled, even as peaceful protesters just outside the White House gates were dispersed with tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets. More»

Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military
Military Times - Wed May 6, 2020
As the Defense Department negotiates its way through the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout, military entrance processing stations are working with new guidance when it comes to bringing COVID-19 survivors into the services. More»

Pentagon goes on lockdown and bans all domestic travel for service members nationwide
Daily Mail - Sat Mar 14, 2020
The Pentagon building has been placed on lockdown and the Department of Defense has suspended nearly all domestic travel for military service members and civilian employees due to the coronavirus pandemic. More»

Army Veteran Has Prosthetic Legs Repossessed After VA Refuses to Pay for Them
Clarion Ledger - Fri Jan 10, 2020
COLLINS, Mississippi - A man walked into a nursing home for military veterans two days before Christmas, picked up Jerry Holliman's legs and left. More»

Selective Service System website crashes amid questions and fears of another US military draft
CNN - Fri Jan 3, 2020
The Selective Service website crashed Friday because of "the spread of misinformation," the agency tweeted. More»

Woman says father was bitten 100+ times by ants before death at VA Medical Center
WSB-TV - Wed Sep 11, 2019
ATLANTA, Georgia - "Overwhelmed, overwhelmed," That's how Laquna Ross told Channel 2 Action News she felt after she found her dad with swollen, red bumps all over his body and his hands swollen when she visited him last week before his death at the Eagle's Nest Community Living Center, a nursing home for veterans on the Atlanta VA Medical Center campus. More»

Oopsie! Air Force Jet Accidentally Fired a Rocket into the Arizona Desert.
CNN - Fri Sep 6, 2019
A routine training mission turned out to be anything but that aboard an Air Force plane in Arizona. More»

Trump Administration: Citizenship no longer automatic for children of some US military members stationed overseas
CNN - Thu Aug 29, 2019
Washington, DC - The Trump administration is making it more difficult for the children of some US service members and US government employees living abroad to automatically become US citizens, according to a policy alert released Wednesday by US Citizenship and Immigration Services. More»

Hundreds witness veteran shoot and kill himself in VA waiting room
Military Times - Fri Apr 12, 2019
A horrific scene unfolded Tuesday in the waiting room of an Austin, Texas, Veterans Affairs clinic when a veteran reportedly shot himself to death in front of hundreds of witnesses. More»

Federal judge rules male-only draft is unconstitutional
CNN - Mon Feb 25, 2019
Washington - A federal judge who ruled the Selective Service System's men-only registration unconstitutional late Friday rejected the reasoning of a 1981 Supreme Court decision, opting for the recent women's rights rationale of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the contemporary court. More»

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis resigns
BBC - Wed Dec 19, 2018
"Because you have the right to have a secretary of defence whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down," Gen Mattis wrote. More»

Veterans Affairs Dept. tells Capitol Hill it won't repay underpaid GI Bill benefits recipients
NBC News - Thu Nov 29, 2018
For weeks, student veterans across the country have raised an alarm about delayed or incorrect GI Bill benefit payments, which the Department of Veterans Affairs has blamed on computer issues. More»

Trump says he is thankful for HIMSELF this holiday
Daily Mail - Wed Nov 21, 2018
President Donald Trump said he's thankful for himself and the difference he made in this country along with his family. More»

Veterans aren't getting their GI Bill payments - because VA's 50-year-old computer system broke
Washington Post - Wed Nov 14, 2018
Daniel Gorman knows what it's like to return from war, and he wants to help fellow veterans come home, too: The former sailor turned New York National Guardsman is finishing a graduate degree in social work at Fordham University. More»

Atlanta VA quality drops to one of the worst in the nation
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Sep 28, 2018
Atlanta’s VA Medical Center now ranks as one of the worst in the nation after the US Department of Veterans Affairs latest national assessment of hospital quality, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News have learned. More»

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