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Military college’s chief of diversity quits amid debate over DEI
The chief diversity officer of the nation’s oldest state-supported military college, Virginia Military Institute, has turned in her resignation.
Marine Vietnam veteran buried months after dying in nursing home
“This poor guy was brought out here from Chicago and put in a nursing home down the street — no friends, no family, nobody."
Lawmakers, former officials surge support for Flournoy to be Biden’s defense secretary
As speculation mounts that Biden may look elsewhere, supporters are flooding to back Michèle Flournoy, long seen as the presumptive nominee.
Top US general in the Mideast says ISIS in Iraq and Syria still long-term threat
While no longer a major security threat, Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie said ISIS is never going to be defeated unless the international community can address the indoctrination of refugees displaced by years of war.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
29 Palms Marine convicted in Joshua Tree love triangle murder
Marine Corps 1st Lt. Curtis Lee Krueger was convicted Sept. 10 for murdering a man who was having sex with his girlfriend.
By Philip Athey
Ball’s in Russia’s court on New START extension, says DoD official
New START, which limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers, expires Feb. 5 unless the U.S. and Russia agree to extend it.
By Joe Gould
China protests alleged US Air Force spy plane incursion during military drills
China is protesting the alleged incursion of a U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane into a no-fly zone imposed during live-fire military exercises in the country’s north.
Those who battled Bonhomme Richard blaze risked all to save ship
For four long days, these young men and women fought an enemy who gave no quarter.
By Kenneth J Braithwaite