National Hire a Veteran Day Marks 10 Years With a New Challenge for Employers
National Hire a Veteran Day enters its 10th year on July 25 with a broader message for employers: Do not just hire veterans. Put them in jobs that use what they learned in uniform. Dan Caporale, a Marine Corps veteran and founder of Hire Our Heroes, created the observance in 2017 as a national call […]
Democratic-Led States Face Backlash over National Guard Deployments in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) — A National Guard deployment to Washington, D.C., has ballooned during the celebrations of the country’s 250th anniversary of independence, bolstered in part by contingents from Democratic-led states. That participation has sparked anger among some in the nation’s capital who argue the troops are not just there to assist in securing the festivities […]
National Guard Members on Patrol in Memphis Fatally Shoot Man During Pursuit, Police Say
Two Tennessee National Guard members assigned to a crime-fighting patrol in Memphis fatally shot a man Sunday who turned toward the soldiers with a gun during a downtown pursuit, authorities said. The Guard members were part of a troop deployment the Trump administration launched in Tennessee’s second-largest city last fall. The soldiers were responding with […]
Rare Copy of Declaration of Independence Found by UK National Archives in Papers of Captured US Ship
LONDON (AP) — Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain’s National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings painstakingly cataloging documents for the benefit of future researchers. Then one day last May the retired insurance executive made a discovery of his own while sifting through the letters of an 18th-century Royal Navy […]
Retired Army General Warns of AI's Effects on Military, National Security
Artificial intelligence may dominate headlines, but retired Army Lt. Gen. Ross Coffman believes another technological shift could have equally significant consequences for national security: the arrival of practical quantum computing. Coffman, president of Forward Edge-AI, told Military.com in an interview how artificial intelligence is changing military operations, and why cybersecurity threats are becoming more sophisticated. […]
Trump Plans to Nominate US Attorney Jay Clayton to Be National Intelligence Director
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence. Trump announced the nomination on social media amid pressure from Congress to name a permanent replacement for […]
Who Could Replace Tulsi Gabbard as Next Director of National Intelligence?
Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has opened a major vacancy inside the Trump administration’s national security team. Gabbard resigned last week, saying in a resignation letter that she was stepping down to care for her husband, Abraham Williams, after he was diagnosed with “an extremely rare form of bone cancer” and […]
Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Director of National Intelligence, Citing Her Husband's Health
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard resigned as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence on Friday, saying she needed to leave office as her husband battles cancer. She is the fourth Cabinet member to depart during Trump’s second term, all of them women. In her resignation letter, which she posted on social media, Gabbard said […]
Alleged Serial Killer’s Remains Disinterred from National Cemetery
Fernando Cota’s final resting place is no longer among the nation’s heroes. Cota, a convicted rapist and alleged serial killer, had his remains disinterred from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in Texas earlier this week, according to a press release from Sen. John Cornyn’s office. Cota’s removal comes after a federal law was passed […]
Montana National Guard Brings Lost WWII Soldier Home
After 80 years, with help from the Air Force, Henry Bordner finally returned to Montana. On April 15, an airman with the 120th Airlift Wing at Great Falls Air National Guard Base, transported the remains of Army Pvt. Henry David Bordner to Montana, where he will be buried in Butte, his hometown. Bordner endured […]