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Multiple independent news outlets, the federal employees’ union representing VA staff, and licensing records indicate was employed as an intensive care nurse at the up to the time of his death; his wa...
The sources show multiple policy moves and scrutiny around VA bonuses in 2024–2025 — including recoupment appeal procedures published January 15, 2025 (OPM rule on VA bonus recoupments) — but none of ...
The ’ publicly documented, official comments about ’s employment status are limited: posted condolences that referenced the incident, but there is no clear VA press release or personnel roster publicl...
ICE undertook an unprecedented hiring surge in 2025–2026, adding roughly 12,000 officers and agents in under a year according to DHS and reporting, but public reporting and ICE statements included no ...
Venezuela is widely described by analysts and governments as a transit state for cocaine rather than a primary producer of fentanyl, and U.S. policy in 2025 centered on lethal maritime strikes and thr...
Available reporting shows Pete Hegseth served in the Army National Guard and later became a civilian senior official; contemporary sources do not report that he was administratively discharged from th...
High-profile deportations of U.S. military veterans — including reported cases such as Georgia Army veteran Godfrey Wade and Purple Heart recipient José Barco — have driven lawmakers and advocates to ...
VHA’s 2025 payments landscape shows both statutory benefit rate updates (Special Monthly Compensation, DIC, and other VA allowances effective Dec. 1, 2024 or Oct. 1, 2024) and separate personnel pay c...
is presented in recent reporting as a retired (Chief Warrant Officer 4) who has been offering public commentary about domestic events, and he is identified in several outlets and social posts as a . H...
All available, credible reporting indicates was an active intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at the at the time of his death; state records show a nursing license issued in 2021 that remained active into...
Active-duty members face limits on partisan and contemptuous political speech under the UCMJ and DoD directives: Article 88 bars contemptuous words against the President and certain civilian officials...
Refusals of military orders happen across history in two broad categories: lawful disobedience of manifestly illegal orders (e.g., orders to target civilians) and acts of insubordination or political ...
In 2024–2025 the VA broadened presumptive exposure locations beyond Vietnam: the department proposed and in some cases finalized adding U.S. and Royal Thai military bases in Thailand (Jan. 9, 1962–Jun...
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...
Priority Group 5 veterans are generally enrolled because they receive VA pension benefits (low-income wartime veterans, age 65+ or permanently and totally disabled) and are included in VA’s medical be...
The Minneapolis VA’s employment connection to has been repeatedly referenced by federal and media sources: publicly identified Pretti as a nurse at the , and multiple news outlets report that Pretti w...
Retired U.S. Navy Admiral William H. McRaven is a well-documented Black admiral who publicly criticized Donald Trump on multiple occasions, saying Trump “embarrassed us” and calling his behavior disqu...
JD Vance served in the United States Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007 and has been reported to have received several standard service medals, most notably the and the , along with campaign and service r...
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 military’s power to recall retired officers for court-martial rests chiefly on the Uniform Code of Military Justice — notably Article 2 and the recall statute 10 U.S.C. § 688 — and decades of appe...