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Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve recently announced that the Cleveland Cavaliers organization is a finalist for the 2021 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award.

USNI News Search for: Home » Budget Industry » Schultz: Coast Guard Units Remain in High Demand as Forces Stretches to Meet Needs Schultz: Coast Guard Units Remain in High Demand as Forces Stretches to Meet Needs March 15, 2021 2:40 PM Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard, speaks during the 2021 State of the Coast Guard Address in San Diego March 11, 2021. US Coast Guard Photo SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Coast Guard remains in big demand at home and overseas as it continues to...

Editor’s note: This is part three of a six-part series on conscription (the draft).On Dec. 5, 1942, presidential Executive Order 9279 closed voluntar

15 First Army’s mission to help Reserve Component Soldiers prep for deployment is given a boost by the First Army Alvin C. York Academy, where attendees learn more about performing the duties of an observer coach/trainer. The school was renamed last year to honor York, a First Army veteran and one of the nation’s best-known Medal of Honor recipients. “We wanted to embrace a tradition of training Soldiers, whether they were Active Duty, National Guard, or Reserve, and the...

How the Pentagon will administer vaccines to its workforce February 19 Vaccinations against COVID-19 will be available to all Department of Defense employees at the Pentagon Reservation through a phased distribution plan. (Major Charles An/U.S. Army Reserve) Employees working at the Pentagon Reservation will all be able to get vaccinated at no cost against COVID-19 through an agency-run vaccination clinic, according to a memorandum issued by Washington Headquarters Services Director Thomas...

PRITT Donald R. “Donnie” Pritt, 73, a resident of Elkins, passed away Saturday in the Emergency Department of Davis Medical Center. He had been in his usual health and his death was unexpected. He was born Sept. 14, 1947, in Elkins, a son of the late Donald H. and Delania “Pee Wee” Gibson Pritt. On May 11, 2019, at Landmark Baptist Church in Elkins, he was married to Linda Louise Romine, who survives. Also surviving is one brother, Edward Pritt and wife, Patricia, of Elkins; sister...

War veteran takes command of helicopter regiment Terry Brown FacebookTwitterEmail Sgt. Matthew Gunter / New York Army National Guard Lt. Col. Matthias Greene receives the 3rd Battalion, 142nd Assault Helicopter Regiment flag from Col. Michael Charnley, 42nd Combat Aviation Battalion commander, during a change of command ceremony in Ronkonkoma. Sgt. Matthew Gunter / New York Army National Guard New York Army National Guard Lt. Col. Matthias Greene, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, ...

Udall, Moran Bill To Provide Fairness For New Moms In National Guard And Reserve Passes Congress From the Office of U.S. Sen. Tom Udall: WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) – both members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense – have announced that their Mothers of Military Service (MOMS) Leave Act passed the Senate by a vote of 84-13 as an amendment in the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This legislation will ensur...

USNI News Final Department of Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion Report December 20, 2020 7:05 PM The following is the Department of Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion Report: Recommendations to Improve Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Inclusion in the U.S. Military that was released on Dec. 18, 2020. From the report For more than 200 years, the U.S. military has fought to defend this nation and its interests, earning the reputation as the greatest military force in history. The U.S....

By the senate, they represent 18,000 plus men and women in uniform, and theyre -- themselves, agents, who actually have enforced the law for 21 plus years, so i think what they have to say is very valuable, and all of those gentlemen ive worked with personally, and know and understand their viewpoint. and i can say both in law enforcement here in arizona in the past, and also serving in the reserve component specifically for the border mission in yuma and also in california having helped constru...