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First District DFL candidate Dan Feehan raised $154,000 in the last three months of 2017, according to a campaign press release. The release states that is the most money ever raised by a non-incumbent in the First District in the first two quarters.
When young men and women enlist in the military, more often than not they aspire to successfully complete one or more enlistments while developing the skills and knowledge for a strong foundation and a successful future in either the military or another career. Tragically, like many things in life, these aspirations may not become reality.
Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called President Donald Trump "an embarrassment" and said he "is doing great damage to our country internationally" in a newspaper interview Saturday. Hagel's remarks come amid uproar over Trump's reported remarks during a closed-door immigration meeting with lawmakers last week, during which he is said to have called certain African countries "shitholes."
About 3 in 10 U.S. military veterans used some form of tobacco product during 2010-2015, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report . Tobacco product use was higher among veterans than among non-veterans for males and females across all age groups, except males ages 50 years and older.
Michael Pereira served three tours of duty in Iraq with the Marine Corps - and now he's fighting for the right to fly the American and Marine Corps flags outside his Texas home. As Fox News reports, Pereira and his wife have been flying both flags since moving into the Kingdom Heights area of Rosenberg, Texas, two months ago.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar pinned the Purple Heart on 93-year-old Minnesota World War II veteran Wayne Sundberg on Wednesday at the Veterans Services Building in St. Paul. Before Gaye Sundberg died in 2014, she dreamed that one day her husband, World War II veteran Wayne Sundberg, would receive the Purple Heart medal he had clearly earned.
The Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs next year is joining a network of groups across the U.S. remembering Vietnam veterans and the 50th anniversary of the war. The agency plans to use the March 29 commemoration ceremony as a springboard to increase its focus on Vietnam veterans next year, Director Nate Todd said.
During the Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Mike Thompson argued that a bill as monumental as the GOP tax bill "cannot and should not be jammed through Congress by one party alone." "I'm Congressman Mike Thompson.
Whether you're on the right, left, or squarely in the middle, we can all agree that veterans aren't treated nearly as well as they should be in this country. In fact, they're blatantly disrespected in many ways.
The law expands the definition of "active duty" to include Reservists and Guard members ordered to active duty to receive authorized medical care, or to be medically evaluated for disability, or complete a Department of Defense health care study. The expansion applies to service on or after September 11, 2001.
US President Donald Trump has been more than a little vocal about his dislike for news network CNN. Well, their feud reached new heights on the weekend... WATCH Flagstaff Families of Native American war veterans and politicians of both major parties are criticising President Donald Trump for using a White House event honouring Navajo Code Talkers to take a political jab at a Democratic senator he has nicknamed "Pocahontas".
Senator John McCain is blasting President Donald Trump on Twitter over Trump's use of a White House event honoring Navajo war veterans to make a racially-charged joke about Democrat Elizabeth Warren. The US Senator from Arizona said Trump's joke calling Warren "Pocahontas" was an "insult" to the sacrifices made by the Code Talkers during World War II.
Families of Navajo war veterans who were honoured at the White House say they were dumbfounded that President Donald Trump used the event to take a political jab at a Massachusetts senator, demeaning their work with an unbreakable code that helped the U.S. win World War II. Trump turned to a nickname he often deployed for Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the 2016 presidential campaign: Pocahontas.
The private equity industry collectively represents hundreds of companies and millions of employees across the country, providing a platform for significant impact on U.S. veteran hiring. We are proud of this continued partnership, and believe it can be a model for other industries as we collectively strive to improve the veteran employment picture, " said Stephen A. Schwarzman, Blackstone's Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder.
The Veterans Affairs Department has fallen short in ways that put veterans and the public "at risk [of] receiving unsafe medical care" by failing to report potentially dangerous doctors, a government watchdog concluded after an investigation. The Government Accountability Office report, issued Monday, reveals issues with the VA's handling of complaints made against doctors and other health care professionals.
Honorably discharged veterans can now shop tax-free at the online military exchanges. The lifetime benefit is due to a change in Department of Defense policy.
It was the night before Veterans Day, but at the National World War II Museum's Victory Ball presented by the Ray and Jessica Brandt Foundation , there was all the more reason to start celebrating our military veterans and those currently serving in the armed forces. Unlike in the past few years, when the museum hosted its major events at the U.S. Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, organizers chose to take the 2017 party outside to the street and Founders Plaza, where a stage was set up for entertainment, and into the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion, the first building opened in the museum complex.
A half a century after serving in Vietnam, hundreds of veterans have a new reason to believe they may be dying from a silent bullet - test results show some men may have been infected by a slow-killing parasite while fighting in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The Department of Veterans Affairs this spring commissioned a small pilot study to look into the link between liver flukes ingested through raw or undercooked fish and a rare bile duct cancer.
A half a century after serving in Vietnam, hundreds of veterans have a new reason to believe they may be dying from a silent bullet - test results show some men may have been infected by a slow-killing parasite while fighting in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The Department of Veterans Affairs this spring commissioned a small pilot study to look into the link between liver flukes ingested through raw or undercooked fish and a rare bile duct cancer.