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Military life tends to agree with autistic people, who are typically focused and hardworking, said Arzu Forough, the president and CEO of Washington Autism Alliance. Her late son, Darian, was …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-04-21/us-military-recruits-disqualifications-disabilities-autism-amputations-5752356.html

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Mar 27, 2024 – Inside a military tent, Army Maj. John Donaho stands before a large projection of the expansive battlespace and military assets involved in the first phase of Project Convergence. The battlespace …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-03-27/army-robots-drones-project-convergence-technology-13440537.html

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Nov 21, 2023 – Congress passed the law to help curb military spouse unemployment which has sat stubbornly around 20% for the last decade despite ongoing efforts to improve job opportunities. Roughly 34% of …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-11-21/texas-law-military-spouses-professional-license-12128344.html

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Military personnel could be punished for their actions in the sheep beating under Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, said Abraham Burgess, an attorney who specializes in military …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/army-investigating-sheep-beating-video-1.166315

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Dec 2, 2023 – But after the Japanese navy’s surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S. military imposed martial law in Hawaii and took control of all of Makua for training, which meant kicking out the farmers …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-12-02/hawaii-army-makua-valley-training-grounds-12235462.html

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Jul 25, 2024 – Junior enlisted troops will get $20 added to their paychecks for the next six months through a congressionally authorized pot of money intended to help fight the rising cost of living for the …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-07-25/military-junior-enlisted-troops-bonus-pay-food-housing-14592955.html

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Jan 27, 2023 – The legal challenges force the Navy and the Marine Corps to confront their own rationale, said Diana Thomson, a senior attorney at the Washington-based nonprofit Becket Law, which represents the …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-01-27/navy-beards-lawsuit-8906959.html

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If the House passes the sweeping legislation and sends it to President Joe Biden to sign into law, it will expand Interstate Highway 14 from its 25 miles near Fort Hood, Texas, into Louisiana …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-08-13/infrastructure-bill-highway-expansion-southern-states-military-bases-2546507.html

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May 8, 2024 – The 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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Oct 11, 2024 – An 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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Dec 14, 2022 – The 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, 2024 – The 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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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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May 2, 2024 – Roper, 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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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill into law that invests $15 million to improve maternity care for female veterans. The new law orders the Department of Veterans Affairs …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2021-11-30/veterans-affairs-maternity-care-biden-law-3810680.html

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Fidell supports a proposal by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., to remove prosecution authority in serious cases away from the victim and defendant’s military commander and give it to an …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/sinclair-reprimanded-fined-case-likely-to-reignite-battle-over-military-justice-1.273689

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In the meantime, judges and lawyers retired or moved on; the case moved at a glacial pace. Eventually, in 2015, Judge J. Thomas Marten denied most of Gray’s appeal, according to court documents.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/federal-military-courts-proceed-cautiously-in-ronald-gray-death-penalty-case-1.447291

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