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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...
Federal (DA/DoD) awards apply across Active Duty, Reserve and National Guard but National Guard members also receive separate state/territory awards that are worn after federal decorations and which m...
The Department of War ceased to exist as a standalone cabinet department in the immediate post‑World War II reorganizations: the National Security Act of 1947 abolished the War Department and created ...
The Bronze Star Medal was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt via Executive Order 9419 in February 1944 and remains governed by subsequent executive orders and federal statute that vest award a...
Public reporting shows Charlie Kirk did not complete a traditional college degree but received multiple honorary recognitions and took many non-degree courses; Hillsdale College announced a posthumous...
The U.S. Army is a federal military service organized under the Department of the Army and funded almost entirely through federal appropriations set in the Defense budget; the Army requested roughly $...
The War Department was statutorily abolished and reorganized by the National Security Act of 1947, effective September 18, 1947, and at that moment the incumbent Secretary of War was Kenneth C. Royall...
Publicly accessible Department of the Army and DoD materials do not provide a clean, compiled 20‑year breakdown of promotion selection rates by commissioning source (USMA, ROTC, OCS, direct commission...
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...
Pete Hegseth’s official bios and multiple news and military sites state he earned two Bronze Star Medals, a Combat Infantryman Badge and other commendations during service in Guantánamo, Iraq and Afgh...
The available summaries provided to this review do not identify any specific government agencies that funded Donald Trump’s parades; the supplied items focus on event scale, costs, media reaction, and...