If you are a veteran, this might impact you!!! Wilmington , DE — The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that — following the 2024 Supreme Court decision — it has updated the process for awarding GI Bill benefits. This change … Continue reading
The President sighed an EO authorizing the Department of Defense to assist Santa with the Twelve Days of Christmas. Status of acquisitions follows: Day 1- Partridge in a Pear Tree: The Army and Air Force are in the process of … Continue reading
Sadly, one of the last few survivors of Pearl Harbor has passed away… https://x.com/NavalInstitute/status/1867348183233228969 With his death, I ‘believe’ there are around fifteen actual survivors left. Fair Winds and Following Seas to Robert Fernandez, one of the Greatest Generation! … Continue reading
Is STILL biting the Navy in the butt… Nearly half of the amphibious warfare ships Marines need to deploy often are unavailable due to maintenance, according to a government watchdog. How the Navy currently manages those repairs means jarheads will continue … Continue reading
Really??? With all that’s wrong with the military in the reign of POTATUS the First under his Secretary of Defense, doofus Lloyd Austin, the one thing the military needs above all else has been the one thing consistently jacked up … Continue reading
They’re trying… The VA is once again trying to expand telehealth. Veterans Affairs leaders plan to eliminate all co-pays for telehealth services and award grants for telehealth clinics in rural areas, part of ongoing efforts to expand virtual care options within the medical care … Continue reading
Do what it takes to get the job done, then and now… Maintainers slogging back to the hangar after working on a bird in a snowstorm in Kef, 1983. To understand a veteran you must know: We left home as … Continue reading
Gleaves Class Destroyer- This particular one is the USS McCook. See below for more… We all know of the heroism of the Troops that hit the beaches on D-Day, June 6. What many people don’t realize is the Navy, in … Continue reading
During WWII… June 3-6 1942 was the Battle of Midway in the Pacific, the first ‘win’ for the Americans against the Japanese… HERE is the Navy combat narratives from the battle. Midway was also where the US lost the USS … Continue reading
Who didn’t come back… Unlike those buried in the cemeteries, Sailors went down at sea, with no markers. ‘In Waters Deep’ In ocean wastes no poppies blow, No crosses stand in ordered row, There young hearts sleep…beneath the wave… The … Continue reading