Tag: Military
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Senate passes sweeping defense bill, pushes for boat strike video
The Senate gave final passage to an annual military policy bill Wednesday that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs while pressuring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide lawmakers with video of strikes on alleged drug boats in international water near Venezuela. The annual National Defense Authorization Act, which raises troop pay by 3.8%, gained bipartisan backing as…
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‘Legally Blonde’ staged by Air Force Academy cadets? Elle, yes!
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 16 The cast was made up of ‘Bluebards’ – more than 40 Academy cadets, each destined to be an Air Force officer one day Michelle Ruehl, like Elle Woods, just finished No. 1 in her class. The retired Air Force colonel – and a longtime force behind the Air…
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Appeals court hands Trump win over transgender military ban
Kaelan Deese Washington Examiner A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s ban on military service by individuals who identify as transgender or have gender dysphoria, staying a lower-court order that blocked War Secretary Pete Hegseth from enforcing the policy. The 2–1 decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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Nonprofit ActivateWork focused on free tech training looks to serve military community
Amid a changing tech industry, ActivateWork, a Denver-based nonprofit, wants to help more members of the military community find jobs through free training. The nonprofit was founded about 10 years ago and works to prepare members of underserved communities for entry-level tech jobs through intensive bootcamps, said Vic Dhanecha, program manager for veteran recruitment and partnerships…
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FBI to interview with Democratic lawmakers who urged military to refuse ‘illegal orders’
The FBI sought interviews with six Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a video urging U.S. service members to reject “illegal orders,” a development that suggests a rapidly escalating review of the lawmakers’ conduct that some military and legal experts say could prove difficult to prosecute under existing statutes. One of those legislators is Colorado’s Jason Crow, who represents the…
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Behind Friendly Lines: Saying goodbye, but are we really parting ways?
It began on Feb. 20, 2022. It ended on Nov. 9, 2025. It lasted 1,359 days. When this column began more than 3 1/2 years ago, I pledged to provide content relevant to our military veteran community. Hopefully, I have done just that. The goal of Behind Friendly Lines was to take veterans, spouses, family…
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Perspective: What we want are warriors
The unusual all-hands meeting of flag and general officers — FOGOs, or officers of one to four stars — convened by War Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, has concluded. Much of the speculation about the purpose of the meeting has proven to be overheated. For instance, the worst-case scenario imagined…
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Space Force guardians key in bombing Iran, future training calls for aggressor satellites
Space Force guardians played a critical role in ensuring B-2 Spirit stealth bombers hit three Iranian nuclear sites with bunker-buster bombs in June by providing navigation and ensuring the planes could come and go safely. The leader of Space Operations Command, Lt. Gen. David N. Miller, Jr., highlighted their contribution during the Air Space and…
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America’s condition as measured by one dismal weekend | Sondermann
It was just another weekend, a rather small slice of time, this one at the end of September. Around these parts, autumn leaf-peeping was at its peak. As beauty goes, that was about the extent of it. The nation witnessed nine, count ‘em, mass shooting incidents in this brief period, such a case being defined…
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Trump calls for using US cities as ‘training ground’ for armed forces in unusual speech to generals
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces, with U.S. military might being deployed against what he described as the “invasion from within.” Addressing an audience of military brass abruptly summoned to Virginia, Trump outlined a muscular and at times norm-shattering view of…