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Article Excerpt: "...Nominated by Biden to serve as major general earlier this month, Air Force Brig. Gen. Steven J. Butow was among several U.S. service members to participate in the 2022 Silicon Valley Pride Parade. Butow currently serves as commander of the California Air National Guard. ..."
Reference Source: thefederalist.com
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Article Excerpt: "...Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from using the military to quell violence in primarily Democratic cities and states. Calling New York City and Chicago “crime dens,” the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination told his audience, “The next time, I’m not waiting. One of the things I did was let them run it and we’re going to show how bad a job they do,” he said. “Well, we did that. We don’t have to wait any longer.”..."
Reference Source: www.military.com
Article Excerpt: "Jonathan Gilliam, a retired Navy SEAL and former FBI agent, has advised Americans to prepare for the possibility of a terror attack by thinking like an attacker and assessing vulnerabilities in their daily lives. ..."
Reference Source: www.analyzingamerica.org
Article Excerpt: "A background in the military can be an asset for those seeking careers in fields such as military intelligence, certain technical fields and law enforcement. For the FBI, the fact that an applicant has military experience is considered only as part of his overall package. It is not typically in and of itself a significant determinant of whether an applicant is accepted by the bureau. As with any previous job experience, however..."
Reference Source: chron.com
Article Excerpt: "...a new app that allows service members to review their living situations on base.
The app, called "Hots&Cots" and available on Apple devices, was created by former Army reservist Robert Evans and allows users to post pictures of their barracks and DFAC, or dining hall, meals. They can give a rating of one to five stars. ..."
Reference Source: yahoo.com
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Article Excerpt: "...More whistleblowers have stepped forward to tell Congress that high-ranking FBI officials are targeting agents, specifically former military members, for their political beliefs and trying to force them out of the bureau.
A Marine and other military veterans at the FBI have been accused of disloyalty to the U.S. because they fit the profile of a supporter of former President Donald Trump, according to two disclosures sent to lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee. ..."
Reference Source: www.washingtontimes.com
Article Excerpt: "...American institutions must be taken back from the hold of the left, otherwise "We're gonna lose our country," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Newsmax Wednesday.
"The world has gone crazy. We are seeing ... what we're seeing in Washington. It's more extreme. It's more radical than it's ever been," Cruz told "Greg Kelly Reports...
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Reference Source: www.newsmax.com
Snippet of Article: "...San Fransisco, controversial video footage was posted on social media, showing the city celebrating Xi’s arrival with countless Chinese flags. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, The Post Millennial’s investigative reporter, Katie Daviscourt, shared a video of the Chinese flags along the streets of San Francisco, saying, “Oh look, San Francisco turned into China for President Xi’s arrival. Finally revealing its true colors.”..."
Source: americanmilitarynews.comSnippet of Article: "Eight Republicans joined all Democrats in the 209-201 vote...Voting against the impeachment effort were Republican Reps. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), John Duarte (R-Calif.), Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio). ..."
Source: nypost.comArticle Excerpt: "There are more than 67,000 homeless veterans in the United States at any given time. ...The complete mismanagement of the Afghanistan withdrawal was hard to watch for civilians, and even more so for those who served. I had a Vietnam veteran tell me that watching the withdrawal felt like coming home from Vietnam — thanklessly and painfully — all over again. This operational failure left civilian contractors abandoned. People in the region whom we asked to help us and supply our forces, with the expectation and trust that we would help them if it all fell apart, were left helpless. ..."
Reference Source: www.washingtonexaminer.com
Article Excerpt: "...By analyzing data provided by the VA and interviewing researchers, veterans service representatives and organizations, GAO auditors found that the department approved lower percentages of initial disability and pension claims from 2012 to 2021 for reserve members compared with active-duty troops, even as some had "similarly severe service-connected disabilities," albeit at lower numbers.
"Differences in approval rates for disability compensation appeared each year and persisted across service members' military service factors such as service branch and rank, as well as demographic factors such as race and ethnicity and sex," according to the report. ..."
Reference Source: www.military.com
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