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U.S. military recruitment has reversed years of shortfalls and is up in 2024–25: the Army contracted more than 61,000 recruits for FY2025—about 10% higher than its FY2024 goal—and the services reporte...
U.S. forces in Europe are funded through a mix of regular Department of Defense appropriations and targeted programs such as the European Deterrence Initiative (EDI), which had a FY2025 request of $2....
The available reporting and expert surveys find no scientific evidence that “chemtrails” — covert toxic sprays from high-flying aircraft — exist; multiple reviews and a survey of 77 atmospheric scient...
The “payment” from Qatar to Donald Trump was not cash but a customized Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet — widely reported and publicly described as a gift valued at roughly $400 million — that Qatar offered to ...
Available reporting does not list a catalog of specific “unlawful orders” that President Trump has given; instead recent coverage centers on Democrats warning troops to refuse unspecified illegal orde...
There is no authoritative public accounting in the provided sources that lists “how much Biden spent on vacations each year” in a single, official table; media and partisan groups offer conflicting ta...
Official postmortem findings and public reporting identify a small group of people who died on January 6, 2021 or in the immediate aftermath; medical examiners attributed those deaths to distinct caus...
Analyses of how much the Obamas “spent” on trips and vacations vary widely because groups count different things: Judicial Watch’s document-based tallies put known Secret Service and Air Force travel ...
There is no single public tally of the accumulated taxpayer cost of President Trump’s Air Force One flights since his second inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025; press reporting and analysts estimate per‑ho...
The reporting does not contain definitive, up‑to‑the‑minute line‑item operating budgets for individual major U.S. bases in Germany, Italy, or the United Kingdom, so a precise per‑base annual “operatin...
President Donald Trump accepted a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet offered by the royal family of Qatar in May 2025; the offer and the administration’s move to take the plane as a gift were first widely ...
The Bronze Star was created in 1944 and, from the start, could distinguish meritorious service from combat heroism by the addition of a small "V" device—first authorized by the Army in 1945 and adopte...
Yes — you can become an Air Force pilot while wearing glasses, but the service enforces specific uncorrected and corrected acuity rules and sometimes stricter standards for certain pilot tracks; for e...
Reliable, public reporting shows , but precise, service-wide percentages are not consistently published. The clearest published figure is that , while more granular counts—such as the number of Black ...
Charlie Kirk’s casket was transported on Air Force Two from Utah to Arizona, a move reported across multiple outlets and widely discussed online; the sources provided do contain an explicit invoice or...
The F-35 has been repeatedly tested and deployed in Alaska’s extreme cold and, while the jet is broadly certified for Arctic operations after climatic testing, real-world winters have exposed specific...
Yes — federal law and longstanding military policy allow many retired-list servicemembers to be ordered back to active duty, and courts and agencies treat most retirees as maintaining a “military” leg...
The short answer is: , because federal law sharply restricts using the military to execute domestic law and there is no precedent for military arrests of ICE for civil‑rights infractions. Remedies for...
The available analyses converge on a central point: the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) generally bars the Army and Air Force from executing domestic law, but . Sources disagree about extraterritorial appli...
Public reporting in early 2025 documents how many members of the 119th Congress have military experience, but it does not contain a single, authoritative roster that separates current active-duty serv...