The new omnibus $1.3 trillion spending bill that President Trump signed last week, the Pentagon’s budget rose to the most in their history, $700 billion. The military budget approved on Friday is packed with funding for new weapons as well as upgrades for older systems. On Tuesday, CNN reported that Trump has privately floated the More »
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United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC)
USASOC is the unified command structure in which individual Army Special Operations units such as Rangers, Special Forces, 160th Special Operations Aviation, Civil Affairs, Psychological Operations, and various support elements are housed under. The JFK Special Warfare Center and School is also part of USASOC, and contains various Special Forces schools and courses such as the Special Forces Qualification Course.
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Veterans Behind Bars, Finding Support in Special Cell Blocks
The Monroe County Jail outside of Rochester, NY has a special veterans’ housing unit and is one of about 80 different pods across the country. Rochester’s opened in September and the goal is to put the veterans in a different setting where they are more likely to feel in a military setting. That is hoped More »
US Military Tells Disabled Vet He Owes $15,000 in Separation Pay
Darrell “Smitty” Smith is being told that the $15,000 “Special Separation” pay that he received more than 25 years ago has turned into a loan. And now that he is 100 percent disabled due to numerous ankle and back surgeries from his time in service, he may lose his home and his boxing gym where More »
Multiple Military Bases in DC Area Sent Suspicious Packages
The FBI is investigating the sending of multiple suspicious packages to military bases and CIA HQs in the Washington D.C. area, officials stated on Monday. The FBI had taken custody of the packages that one official stated was more than 10 of these crude devices. They said packages were sent to the CIA, Fort Belvoir More »
Elvis Presley Helps the USS Arizona Memorial With a Benefit Concert
On March 25, 1961, Elvis Presley did a benefit concert for the Arizona Memorial which raised over $62,000 and helped to restart public funding for the war memorial that so many Americans visit every year. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States quickly rebuilt its facilities there and raised More »
Trump to Limit Transgender Troops Service? New Policy Expected Friday
The Trump Administration has a new policy on the sticky subject of transgender troops that will likely restrict their service. The policy is slated to go into effect on Friday and comes after months of court challenges and talks inside the Defense Department. In August, President Trump sent Defense Secretary Jim Mattis a memo ordering More »
Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, Last Large Cavalry Clash of the Civil War
The Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, sometimes known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road was the last major cavalry engagement of the Civil War. The Union cavalry called it colloquially “Kilpatrick’s Shirttail Skedaddle”. It took place in what is now northeastern Fort Bragg, NC. Confederate cavalry under the command of Major General Wade Hampton and MG More »
New Balance Strikes Deal To Manufacture Shoes for the Military
New Balance announced it had reached a $17.3 million agreement to make sneakers for the military. The Boston-based shoe brand will make the new 950v2 specifically for the military. “This is a great win for the preservation and growth of American manufacturing jobs,” says Rob DeMartini, President & CEO at New Balance. The brand currently More »
Teacher Who Called the Military, “the Lowest of the Low” Fired
The teacher from California who called members of the U.S. military, “the lowest of our low” in a video captured by one of his students has been fired. As soon as the video hit social media, it triggered criticism from across the nation including the White House. The El Rancho Unified School District held a More »
Remembering Charles “Snake” Hosking Jr. MOH, March 21,1967
Charles Ernest Hosking Jr. was a career soldier who fought as a U.S. paratrooper in World War II and then was one of the original Green Berets when the unit was created in 1952. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for Valor in the Republic of Vietnam for his actions on March 21, More »
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