Military News

May 8, 2024The Congressional Budget Office estimates the proposed law change would drive up the VA’s costs by $392 million through 2032 to deliver disability compensation and health care for veterans …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-05-08/veterans-military-sexual-trauma-legislation-13797193.html

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A defense contractor agreed to pay $13.67 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that its employees accepted kickbacks while providing logistics support to U.S. Army forces in the …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-06-16/kbr-doj-settlement-6360032.html

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Nov 5, 2024Military spouses are being forced to quit their jobs when their family gets orders to be stationed overseas. Their employment opportunities are limited resulting in having to depend on the service …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-11-05/military-spouses-employment-landstuhl-hospital-15743423.html

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Oct 11, 2024An indictment released Sept. 27 of three Iranian nationals alleged a wide-ranging, years-long effort that included targeting one of Trump’s lawyers, former CIA officials and a former U.S …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-10-11/trump-military-aircraft-security-campaign-iran-threats-assassination-15476844.html

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May 28, 2024A jury trial will begin June 17 and take about 10 days at Joint Base San Antonio in Texas, according to the Air Force court docket. Stewart is charged with two counts of sexual assault for actions …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-05-28/air-force-general-sexual-assault-court-martial-14006450.html

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It orders the Army Discharge Review Board to reconsider thousands of cases where upgrades were denied, despite evidence that veterans were struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2021-04-28/ARMY-DISCHARGES-1355142.html

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May 21, 2024During that period, the leaves averaged 3.3 days, while jury duty and bereavement leaves averaged 1.8 days and 2.7 days respectively. But pilots took short-term military leave more often …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-05-21/american-airlines-lawsuit-military-leave-13926645.html

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Dec 14, 2022The suit — filed by Just Well Law in Austin, Texas; Hosoda Law Group in Honolulu; and Lanier Law Firm in Houston — deems conflicting admissions and denials among military officials regarding …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-12-13/litigants-red-hill-lawsuit-gaslighting-8411491.html

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The lawsuits of more than 20,000 veterans who claim earplugs used during their military service caused them hearing damage were dismissed Friday, May 6, 2022, by a federal judge after the veterans …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-05-09/military-earplugs-3m-lawsuits-veterans-5949626.html

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RHEIN-MAIN AIR BASE, Germany — Troops stationed in Germany are seeing red over the Pentagon’s proposal to add an anti-prostitution charge to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/troops-say-proposed-ucmj-change-unfair-in-prostitution-legal-germany-1.24513

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Jun 11, 2024The U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request about a decade ago, disclosed that more than 900 schools across the nation reported mandating the …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-06-11/trump-orbit-mandatory-military-service-14149581.html

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Under the new law, commanders will be removed from prosecution decisions for those cases. Instead, each military branch will establish a new Office of Special Trial, independent of the chain of …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-01-26/biden-executive-order-sexual-assault-harassment-crime-guillen-4422723.html

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Mar 1, 2023The law now requires a veteran’s retirement check be reduced based on the amount of his or her disability payment. This is known in government as concurrent receipt.

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2023-02-28/veterans-benefits-retirement-disability-military-9287471.html

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Mar 27, 2024The Army is looking for soldiers who are cavalry scouts and military police to move into other positions as the service looks to meet its retention and restructuring goals for 2024.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-03-27/army-retention-restructure-scouts-military-police-cuts-13440748.html

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Apr 2, 2024U.S. service members, Defense Department workers and family members stationed in Germany remain barred from using marijuana despite Germany’s new law legalizing the drug, the U.S. Army in Europe …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-04-02/cannabis-germany-military-dependent-civilians-13469382.html

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Sep 23, 2024Marines Ted Davis, 23, and Rylie Petrosky, 20, have been charged with rape by police in Surf City, N.C., a small beach town near Camp Lejeune where the two men are assigned.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-09-23/marines-camp-lejeune-rape-charges-15276049.html

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Others, like Dru Brenner-Beck, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who served as chief of the military and civil law division at U.S. Army Europe from 2001-2003, says the military is being …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/overseas-benefits-elusive-for-same-sex-military-couples-1.328129

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A provision in the fiscal 2020 defense authorization law ordered the service to fully integrate women into its training battalions at Parris Island, South Carolina, by 2025 and in San Diego by …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-10-06/congress-women-military-draft-register-3146339.html

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May 2, 2024Roper, who became the first Black person to achieve the rank of U.S Army Reserve lieutenant general, served simultaneously in the military and in civil law enforcement for more than three decades.

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-05-02/alabama-police-chief-army-reservist-general-retires-13732360.html

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Marine Corps law enforcement officers may now carry privately owned concealed weapons on Marine bases, a change made in the aftermath of tragic shootings on two military bases last month.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/marine-law-enforcement-can-carry-privately-owned-firearms-on-base-1.613294

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