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Now, His Career Is in Political Jeopardy.]( [A Man Who Crashed a Snowmobile into a Parked Black Hawk Helicopter Is Suing the Government for $9.5M]( [Above the Arctic Circle, Infantry Marines Are Improvising to Battle Harsh Conditions as Part of NATO Force]( [Bill Allowing Disabled Veterans to Collect Full Benefits Gets New Push from Supporters on Capitol Hill]( The Major Richard Star Act would ensure all service members who medically retire have full access to both military retirement pay and Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits. [Read More]( [They Stood Sentry over America's Nuclear Missile Arsenal. Many Worry It Gave Them Cancer.]( For years, it was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era missile alert facilities and launch control centers where they'd spend days sleeping, eating and staying on alert in case of nuclear armageddon were filled with things that might get them sick. 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Kareem Nikoui, was arrested by Capitol Police for the outburst, which also included yelling his son's name while Biden spoke of violent crime in the U.S. [Read More]( [2024 VA Disability Payment Schedule]( Use our schedule to plan your finances for the upcoming year. [Read More]( [Google: Together, We Can Build for Everyone]( [Read More]( [A Moment of Truth for the Army's Chief Laser Weapon]( Four prototypes reportedly arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of operations in early February, with the Army undertaking "initial testing activities" on the path to a future live-fire demonstration. [Read More]( [New Military Sealift Operation to Aid Starving Gaza Residents Will Require More than 1,000 US Troops]( A spokesman said that the Pentagon has begun rolling out a plan to use an Army Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore, or JLOTS, operation in the next 60 days to deliver more than two million meals a day to Gaza residents. [Read More]( [Iconic Kissing Sailor Photo From V-J Day Won’t Be Banned From VA Facilities After All]( A recent memo from the Department of Veterans Affairs to its regional offices directed all copies of the iconic World War II photo of a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square on V-J Day to be removed from agency facilities because it depicts a "non-consensual act." [Read More]( [2 Airmen and an Air Force Recruit Busted in Large-Scale Prostitution Sting in Florida]( The sting was part of an eight-day undercover human-trafficking operation, "Operation March Sadness 2024," with the two service members and one trainee arrested for solicitation of prostitution. [Read More]( [7 Things to Consider Before Writing a Book About Your Military Service]( Before you write the first words, create a plan for who the book will serve, how it will reach this audience and how you'll produce it. This will save you a lot of time down the road. [Read More]( [Hawaii's Last Pearl Harbor Survivor Laid to Rest]( Sterling Robert Cale was 102 years old when he died Jan. 10 in his Aiea home, which overlooked Pearl Harbor's battleship row. [Read More]( [FREE Master Class: How to Use LinkedIn to Get a Job]( [Read More]( [Military Discounts on Car Insurance for Veterans & Active Duty *]( [Read More]( [Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charged with Leaking Classified Information on Dating Platform]( David Franklin Slater, a retired Army lieutenant colonel assigned to U.S. Strategic Command, was arrested and charged with one count of conspiring to transmit and two counts of transmitting classified information. [Read More]( [Thieves Are Stripping Sunken World War II Shipwrecks of Their Valuable Steel]( In 2017, a civilian search team discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in a 600-mile swathe of the Pacific Ocean. The 10,000-ton heavy cruiser was sunk by two torpedoes in the Philippine Sea in July 1945. 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