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Cleaning toxic military sites will take decades without more funding
Advocates want congressional appropriators to double the budget for military clean up efforts in fiscal 2024.
Pentagon to help stand up 10 more COVID mass vaccination sites, mission could last much of 2021
A total of 35 FEMA-backed sites are either up and running or in the works.
Active-duty troops to administer vaccines in Texas, New York and Virgin Islands
Two California sites are currently up and running in Oakland and Los Angeles.
More than 5 million military family members, retirees are getting new ID cards
The technology also sets the stage for the future when cardholders will be able to go online and get their ID card through the proper vetting process, without going to an ID office.
By Karen Jowers
Women’s Army Corps member who refused to give up bus seat in 1952 honored with plaza, murals
A North Carolina woman whose refusal to go to the back of a bus in 1952 led to a lawsuit that sparked a change in law is being honored with a special day.
North Korea’s military to reenter inter-Korea cooperation sites
North Korea said Wednesday it will redeploy troops to now-shuttered inter-Korean cooperation sites, reinstall guard posts and resume military exercises at front-line areas, nullifying the landmark tension-reducing deals reached with South Korea just two years ago.
Calls grow for VA to remove Nazi swastikas from department cemeteries
Markers for some deceased former German prisoners of war display the controversial symbol alongside American grave sites.
Soldiers use their own cash to get better food in quarantine
Fort Bliss said soldiers are provided an ordering service from AAFES, and “have been using their delivery system daily for more than a month.”
By Kyle Rempfer
Advocates: Pentagon failing to communicate dangers of firefighting foam chemicals to troops, families
Groups want widespread testing, monitoring and cleanup of PFAS chemicals, which have leached into the ground and drinking water supplies in some communities.
By Patricia Kime
Iran says its response to killing of revered Quds Force commander will be ‘against military sites'
“[Trump] doesn’t know international law. He doesn’t recognize UN resolutions either. Basically he is a veritable gangster and a gambler. He is no politician he has no mental stability."
By Shawn Snow
Trump threatens Iran that US is targeting 52 sites if Tehran retaliates following death of Iranian general
“Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!”
By Shawn Snow