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What’s a political race without vice presidential candidates attacking each other?
Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz are both military veterans. Vance has gone after Walz's service.
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Making sense of JD Vance's 'stolen valor' accusations against Tim Walz
JD Vance has accused Governor Tim Walz of embellishing his military record, and even used the words "stolen valor," a serious accusation in military circles.
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William L. Calley Jr., convicted in the My Lai massacre, dies at 80
William Calley, the only U.S. soldier convicted for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, died in April this year at age 80.
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Vance, unlike many GOP war veterans, is a leading voice against military intervention
Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance served in the Marine Corps. But unlike many Republican war veterans, he is a leading voice against U.S. military intervention abroad.
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JD Vance and the Republican vets who think America should do less, not more, abroad
JD Vance is the first veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan to appear on a presidential ballot. But he isn’t a hawk; he leads a contingent of war veterans in the GOP who oppose U.S. military intervention overseas.
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Biden issues blanket pardon to troops expelled from the military for their sexuality
President Joe Biden issued a blanket pardon on Wednesday morning to LGBTQI+ service members removed from the military because of their sexual orientation/gender identity.
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Half of U.S. military bases in the country are in 'health care deserts'
For hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families, when the Pentagon orders them to find health care off base there is none.
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50% of U.S. military bases are in a health care desert, NPR probe finds
An ongoing NPR investigation into military health care reveals that four out of 10 U.S. military bases are located within a federally designated health care desert.
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The VA tells banks not to foreclose on veterans’ homes this year
The move gives mortgage companies more time to get a new program up and running to rescue veterans who were facing foreclosure through no fault of their own.
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In the Coast Guard's wargames, climate change is now a key adversary
The Coast Guard is holding it's strategic wargames at a base in Portsmouth, Va., and climate change is a key adversary.