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The specific claim that "5,000 U.S. soldiers quit in a mass protest" is not supported by the reporting available in the provided sources; instead the documented resignations and workforce reductions c...
Official public reporting and own accounts describe her UH‑60 Black Hawk being struck by an insurgent rocket‑propelled grenade on , resulting in catastrophic injuries and an emergency medevac, but the...
Public records and multiple news outlets report that J.D. Vance enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after high school, served four years (2003–2007) including a roughly six‑month deployment to Iraq, and...
The U.S. has approved construction of a Qatari Emiri Air Force training facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho — but reporting repeatedly states this is a facility hosted inside a U.S. base...
enlisted in the immediately after graduating high school in 2003 and completed a four‑year enlistment that ended in 2007 . During that enlistment he served as a /public affairs specialist with the 2nd...
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...
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a large 501(c) nonprofit focused on post‑9/11 wounded, ill, and injured veterans and reports program spending and services such as mental‑health treatment and VA benef...
J.D. Vance served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps (2003–2007) as a combat correspondent and deployed to Iraq for about six months in 2005; multiple service records and news accounts list awards in...
The destroyer USS Ward fired on and sank a Japanese midget submarine off Pearl Harbor at about 06:37 on December 7, 1941; U.S. historians and memorials regard those rounds as the first American shots ...
Independent ratings and Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) reporting show strong self-reported reach and program measurement: Charity Navigator gives WWP a four‑star, 99% score and documents its July 2025 ...
Documents reviewed by NPR show Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is advancing plans to sever the U.S. military’s century‑old ties with Scouting America (the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts)...
Available reporting shows the District of Columbia National Guard and other states’ Guard units began deploying to Washington, D.C., in mid‑August 2025 (with multiple outlets citing Aug. 14 and August...
Japan lowered its civil-law age of majority from 20 to 18 effective April 1, 2022, a change that chiefly affects contract and parental-authority rules — it allows 18- and 19‑year‑olds to enter contrac...
Since 2019, the public record contains a mix of explicit Pentagon testimony that the Defense Department drafts contingency plans broadly and formal policy documents focused on Arctic posture, but it l...
sought up to 1,700 from about 20 states , but , patchy, and varied by state — with detailed, confirmed numbers publicly reported for only a handful of states (; ; ; ) and many other states authorizing...
’s 2016–17 overhaul of combat‑award policy tightened Bronze Star criteria and reworked how the “V” (valor) device is used, prompting agencies to reassess past awards and in at least some documented in...
Officially sourced public reporting does not produce a released personnel file for ; instead, contemporary news accounts and public records uniformly describe him as a registered intensive‑care nurse ...
Current publicly available reporting indicates the contribution to ’s Force () is modest—roughly 600 American service members embedded within a multinational contingent of about 4,600 troops—and those...
Since October 2023 multiple government officials and reputable outlets documented small teams of (SOF) present in in roles focused on planning, intelligence-sharing, hostage identification and conting...
A joint investigation by CBS News and The Post and Courier identified nearly $28 million in canceled federal grants tied to controversial animal experiments, but the reporting names only a handful of ...