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Governor Roy Cooper has named retired Lieutenant General Walter Gaskin to lead the North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. 

Tragedy as bullets from armed men kill 33-year-old pregnant mother On By Boluwaji Obahopo THERE has been unceasing an outpouring of tears in Magongo community in Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of Kogi State following the violent shooting and killing of a pregnant woman by men suspected to be soldiers from the Nigerian Army. But the Nigerian Army has promptly denied the involvement of its men in the shooting that terminated the woman’s life. The unpredicted ugly events that culminated in...

RBG, Kobe Bryant, Little Richard: Remembering notables who died in 2020 A look at the icons, newsmakers and stars we lost in a year dominated by COVID-19 and upheaval. David Colton, Special to USA TODAY Published 8:20 pm UTC Dec. 30, 2020 Corrections & clarifications: A previous version of this story had the incorrect year of Ray Manzarek’s death. He died in 2013. In this year of the coronavirus pandemic, deaths were often just a cold statistic. Grieving families barely had a moment to say...

DCMA employee completes 40 years of military service Courtesy Photo | Army Command Sgt. Maj. Ron Cabrera and his wife Linda (right) pose for a photo with...... read moreread more Courtesy Photo | Army Command Sgt. Maj. Ron Cabrera and his wife Linda (right) pose for a photo with Army 1st Sgt. Manny Marquez at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos in California shortly after Cabrera’s last heli...

DEFENCE SECRETARY PROMOTED TO RANK OF 04 STAR GENERAL DEFENCE SECRETARY PROMOTED TO RANK OF 04 STAR GENERAL Written by Share: Colombo (News 1st); Defence Secretary Major General (Retired) Kamal Gunaratne was promoted to the rank of four star General on Monday (28) by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. General (Retd) G.D.H. Kamal Gunaratne, having a distinguished military career of over 35 years and holding many key appointments in all areas of Defence and Civil – Military Coordination, assumed...

Sean D. Naylor December 22, 2020, 12:14 PM On June 29, 2010, Gen. David Petraeus was reaching the end of one of the most hectic weeks of his extraordinary career. After three lengthy combat tours in Iraq, the Army four-star was 20 months into what would normally be a three-year stint as head of U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla. But a few days earlier, President Barack Obama had asked him to immediately step down from his job in order to take charge of the coalition’s military operations in ...

"Regrettably, despite goodwill on both sides, the parties remain far apart," Pompeo added. “We encourage both sides to continue discussions based on the respective claims they have previously deposited at the United Nations,” he went on to say. Pompeo’s remarks came around half an hour after al-Jadeed TV quoted senior political sources as saying that the U.S. mediation team is pressing President Michel Aoun and Army chief General Joseph Aoun to “soften Lebanon’s stance” in the negot...

Arlington funeral held for Medal of Honor recipient who died from COVID-19 The Associated Press December 16, 2020 The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) conduct modified military funeral honors for Medal of Honor recipient Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie Adkins at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Dec. 16, 2020. (Elizabeth Fraser/Arlington National Cemetery) MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Medal of Honor recipient Bennie G. Adkins, who died from COVID-19 earlier this year, was re...

Gov. Kay Ivey orders flags at half-staff in honor of Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins Updated Dec 15, 2020; Posted Dec 14, 2020 President Barack Obama bestows the Medal of Honor to retired Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie G. Adkins in the East Room of the White House, Sept. 15, 2014.(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller/Released) Facebook Share Gov. Kay Ivey has ordered flags at half-staff in honor of Army Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie G. Adkins of Opelika, a Congressional Medal of Honor wi...

Bennie Adkins, Alabama Medal of Honor recipient killed by COVID, to be buried at Arlington Updated Dec 13, 2020; Posted Dec 13, 2020 President Barack Obama bestows the Medal of Honor to retired Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie G. Adkins in the East Room of the White House, Sept. 15, 2014.(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller/Released) Facebook Share A Medal of Honor recipient from Alabama who died after contracting COVID-19 earlier this year will be laid to rest this week at Arlington Nation...