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US Coast Guard Academy censors ‘climate change’ from its curriculum
The terminology will be stricken in classes for future officers in a service that confronts global warming every day, a move some say will weaken it.
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Family of dead Guardsman seeks retroactive benefits from namesake bill
The Bishop Evans Act, named for a Texas National Guardsman who died, would guarantee death benefits for survivors of troops who die in the line of duty.
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Still no response from North Korea about wayward US soldier
But North Korea’s defense minister threatened that the docking of a nuclear-armed U.S. sub in South Korea could be grounds for a nuclear attack.
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A year on, Pentagon’s border mission investigation still missing
The investigation concluded in September 2022, but the results still have not been released.
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UN says it’s communicating with North Korea about detained US soldier
“None of us know where this is going to end,” says UN deputy commander Andrew Harrison, a British lieutenant general.
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Don’t believe the hype about Fort Bliss
“Striking is the disparity between what people who’ve never been here presume about the region and what residents recognize as reality.”
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Marine-turned-kingpin pleads guilty in drug trafficking case
An indictment said Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr.’s military training was an asset while working with powerful drug cartels.
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Texas Guard to send tank-like military vehicles to the border
A document obtained by The Texas Tribune and Army Times shows that the Vietnam-era M113 armored personnel carriers will go to 10 locations on the border.
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US soldier who fled to North Korea was facing disciplinary action
U.S. officials say an American soldier who fled across the border from South Korea into North Korea had been facing military disciplinary actions.
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Is Barbie a Chinese communist sympathizer? GOP lawmakers weigh in
A movie on plastic dolls, not nuclear weapons, has caused political uproar among some conservatives.
