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The District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) is uniquely structured: by statute it is under the president’s command rather than the mayor’s, and that presidential authority has been delegated throug...
Yes — many current and past members of Congress have military service in their biographies, and a sizable number enter or remain in office as veterans rather than as active-duty service members. Recen...
The available reporting shows that crime in Washington, D.C. fell after the National Guard and federalized policing actions associated with Trump’s takeover; some outlets report notable drops in certa...
President Donald Trump hosted Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa — a former commander who led Syria’s Nusra/HTS lineage and was once sanctioned by the U.S. — at the White House on Nov. 10, 2025, in a visit...
Donald Trump received multiple draft deferments in the 1960s and was reclassified after a 1968 medical letter citing heel bone spurs, a change that ultimately kept him out of Vietnam . Reporting and t...
Documented cases exist in reporting and advocacy materials showing immigrant veterans have been deported and in some instances denied the ability to complete naturalization — including veterans preven...
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...
Former employees and outside whistleblowers publicly accused the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) in 2015–2016 of lavish spending, waste, a culture of intimidation, and misuse of donor funds; those alleg...
Estimates of U.S. military deaths vary by source and definition: one widely cited compilation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (as summarized by USAFacts) puts total U.S. military fatalities fr...
DHS’s aviation posture in 2025 shows an agency balancing large, multi-year recapitalization plans for the Coast Guard’s air fleet with sharp political controversy over recent high‑profile purchases. O...
Reporting from multiple outlets traces the allegation that Donald Trump called U.S. service members—dead and living—“suckers” and “losers” to a 2020 Atlantic story that cited multiple sources and to l...
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...
There is no single text in the Geneva Conventions or their Additional Protocols that defines the phrase “manifestly unlawful order” as a standalone legal term; rather, sources treat the duty to disobe...
The short answer is: there is no reliable, publicly available count of how many non‑citizen veterans are currently in ICE removal proceedings; the most concrete, government‑verified figure is a GAO fi...
President Trump announced in June 2025 that the Pentagon would restore former names for seven Army bases that had been changed in 2023 as part of a broader renaming effort; Defense Secretary Pete Hegs...
Public reporting identifies a small but visible group of current members of Congress who also serve in the National Guard or Reserve; several outlets count roughly six members who are actively drillin...
Available reporting shows Donald Trump has a documented history of making disparaging or controversial comments about veterans and military figures, including reported labels like “suckers” and “loser...
JD Vance enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after graduating high school in 2003 and served a four‑year enlistment from 2003 until 2007, rising to corporal and serving as a combat correspondent with th...
In 2020, President Trump’s public insults of senior officers, repeated references to “my generals,” and high-profile politicized appearances created measurable friction inside the armed forces: polls ...
The Atlantic reported in 2020 that President Donald Trump had repeatedly disparaged U.S. service members — including calling American war dead “suckers” and “losers” — and that he had questioned the v...