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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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) spends a noticeably higher share of its budget on fundraising than many peer veterans charities: recent WWP disclosures put fundraising near 20–25% of expenses (and some ...
Army National Guard promotions to major are governed by a mix of time-in-grade rules, state selection or vacancy processes, and a federal recognition step that historically added months of delay; stat...
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is described as a large, national organization focused on post‑9/11 wounded, ill, and injured veterans with programs ranging from mental‑health support to advocacy . Fish...
Available reporting shows yohimbine can cause cardiovascular, neurological and psychiatric side effects—from elevated heart rate and blood pressure to anxiety, tremor, dizziness and, in rare reports, ...
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) presents itself as a major funder of veteran services and reports transparency and program spending through its annual reports and financial pages; third‑party profiles a...
Available reporting shows President Trump both announced and implemented some troop reductions in specific theaters—most notably rotations out of Romania (about 1,000–1,200 troops) and announced conso...
Available sources show Congress and federal practice have long limited “double-dipping” — receiving two lifelong federal annuities for the same event — but recent legislative changes and proposals hav...