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A Fort Bliss soldier accused of raping Pfc. Asia M. Graham and other women has been charged in connection with four additional sexual assaults, military officials said. Pfc. Christian G. Alvarado now faces a general court martial on a total of seven sexual assault charges dating back to December 2018. The cases are pending in military court. Alvarado, who is in pretrial confinement, has been in the U.S. Army since July 2018. He arrived at Fort Bliss in February 2019. It was his first duty ...

Advocates Hope First Female Army Secretary Brings Change Nominee Christine Wormuth has led strategy and policy at the highest levels. Can she lead cultural change as well? Senior Pentagon Reporter, Defense One When Christine Wormuth was nominated to be U.S. Army secretary last week, attorney Natalie Khawam’s phone lit up with messages from her clients.  Khawam has helped service members for years seek justice after sexual assault. She became a national voice last year as she stood be...

email Advocates Hope First Female Army Secretary Brings Change Nominee Christine Wormuth has led strategy and policy at the highest levels. Can she lead cultural change as well? April 18, 2021 08:00 AM ET When Christine Wormuth was nominated to be U.S. Army secretary last week, attorney Natalie Khawam’s phone lit up with messages from her clients.  Khawam has helped service members for years seek justice after sexual assault. She became a national voice last year as she sto...

As of Thursday, federal prosecutors have charged at least 205 people for their alleged roles in the Capitol riot and opened over 400 investigations into possible criminals.

Legislators need to act on sexual assault reforms to protect National Guard troops Perhaps not since the civil unrest of the 1960s and early ‘70s has the value of the Wisconsin National Guard been more evident. Last year, the Guard found itself maintaining the peace on the streets of Kenosha and Madison. During the pandemic, Guard personnel helped augment seriously depleted ranks of poll workers, and they manned COVID 19 testing stations throughout the state. And lest we forget that units ...

by SOFREP 4 hours ago Share This: The Pepe the Frog character did not originally have racist or anti-Semitic connotations. Internet users appropriated the character and turned him into a meme, placing the frog in a variety of circumstances and saying many different things. Many variations of the meme became rather esoteric, resulting in the phenomenon of so-called "rare Pepes." Recently, the United States Army Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) created the first-ever Chief Diversity and Inclu...

  President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate 11 members of his Administration to lead on national security and law enforcement at White House and across key agencies. Christy Abizaid DOD The President has tapped Christy Abizaid for Director of National Counterterrorism Center at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Chris Inglis for National Cyber Director in the Executive Office of the President, Christine Wormuth for Secretary of the Army at the Department of Defense...

Across the Arsenal, leadership from the Army and all its tenant organizations conducted an extremism stand-down earlier this month to address the issue of rising extremist activity within the ranks of the military. This is in response to a directive from Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. In a memo signed Feb. 5, Austin gave commanding officers and supervisors 60 days to complete a one-day stand down, emphasizing the importance of the oaths of office taken by each federal employee an...

12 Apr 2021 Former California Democrat Rep. Gil Cisneros (D-CA) was nominated by President Joe Biden, Monday for under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness at the Department of Defense. The move comes as yet another setback for House Democrats, who had hoped he would — as he had been signaling he might — run for his old seat, which he lost in 2020 to a Republican. In the position of under secretary, Cisneros’s responsibility will be “the principal staff assistant and advis...

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