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Hegseth terminates women’s advisory group, slams ‘divisive agenda’ By Hope Hodge Seck The Pentagon has announced plans to terminate a 75-year-old advisory committee serving female service members, citing a “divisive” and harmful agenda — days after a previous memo established plans for reactivating it. A Sept. 17 memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and […]
Removing Disgraced Veterans
Senators seek to make it easier for VA to exhume ‘disgraced’ veterans By Karen Jowers A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wants to make it easier to exhume and remove the remains of veterans convicted of serious crimes from national cemeteries. “The burial grounds of our national cemeteries should be reserved for the bravest and […]
What’s In A Name?
Trump, Hegseth float renaming Defense Department to Department of War By Leo Shane III Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said plans to rename his agency as the Department of War are “coming soon,” but it remains unclear whether the executive branch can make such a move without congressional permission. During a White House press event on […]
New Award for Mexican Border Service
Mexican Border Service Medal Pentagon releases design for Mexican Border Defense Medal The new award uses the same design and ribbon as the Mexican Border Service Medal from 1918. Nicholas Slayton Four days after confirming that it was creating a new medal for troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Department of Defense released the […]
VA Fires Federal Unions
The Union Label VA severs ties with most federal unions, terminating worker contracts By Leo Shane III Veterans Affairs leaders on Wednesday announced plans to terminate nearly all of its collective bargaining contracts with federal unions, upending employment agreements for hundreds of thousands of department workers. The move affects members of the American Federation of […]
Confederate Memorial Returns to Arlington
SECDEF “…taken down by woke lemmings…” Pete Hegseth Orders Return of Confederate Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery Hannah Knudsen Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is committed to rooting out woke, and that includes returning confederate memorials to their rightful places. In an X post on Tuesday, Hegseth announced the grand return of the Confederate Memorial, commonly […]
Korea Duty Assignments Extended
Single soldiers will get two-year assignments instead of the typical 12-month tour; Soldiers with families will get three years vice two. Longer assignments coming soon for troops heading to South Korea By Karen Jowers A new Pentagon directive implementing longer tours of duty in South Korea will improve force stability, support service members’ quality of […]
Woke Wars Veteran Named AF Undersecretary
Matthew Lohmeier Anti-‘woke’ former officer confirmed as Air Force undersecretary Stephen Losey Matthew Lohmeier, the former Space Force lieutenant colonel who was relieved of command after publicly blasting the military’s diversity programs and alleged Marxist ideology, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as the Air Force’s next undersecretary. The 52-46 vote to approve Lohmeier […]
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