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Military.com
A Florida congressman says the Veterans Administration cut off the benefits of more 4,200 people nationwide after they were wrongly declared dead. Rep. David Jolly says these people were "very much alive" and their benefits were resumed after the VA looked into their cases, which happened between 2011 and 2015.
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Military Times (tiered subscription model)
A new survey of post-9/11 veterans finds an increase over a previous study in the number who contemplated suicide since joining the service and a belief among this group that the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments aren't doing enough to address the problem.
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WTAJ-TV
A new policy will make it easier for military veterans to get their teacher certification. The Department of Education agreed to expedite the process and do so at a reduced fee. The goal is to ease the transition for teachers who are returning from active duty.
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Military Times (tiered subscription model)
Senate appropriators unveiled their $574.5 billion defense funding plan for fiscal 2017, keeping spending within existing caps and complicating advocates' hopes for a bigger pay raise for troops next year.
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The Huffington Post
Just as America's veterans organization are coming together to demand better government protection against deceptive and abusive practices by for-profit colleges, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV, seems to want to move in the opposite direction, pushing an amendment that would require the Pentagon to allow any college approved for military tuition benefits to have unrestricted access to recruit on military bases. Veterans and military groups, as well as other senators, are now working to stop this Manchin amendment.
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PBS NewsHour
Memorial Day is a federal holiday that honors the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. After graduating from West Point in 2002 and serving more than five years on active duty as a field artillery officer, Demetrius Ball decided to teach. Ball is now a high school social studies teacher in Maryland's Howard County Public School System. He hopes that by sharing a little about what life was like in the military, his students might further understand the meaning of Memorial Day.
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The Coalition to Save Our Military Shopping Benefits
Forty organizations representing tens of millions of Veterans and military personnel and their families support the Inhofe-Mikulski amendment to delay commissary privatization until the requested reports are received and analyzed. The Senate and the House are about to approve major legislative reforms to the management and structure of commissaries that are supported by the Administration, which also opposes commissary privatization and has said that there is little if any interest by the private sector.
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Military.com
The crowd was restless for Fat Albert. It was just after 2 p.m. and the sun was beating down on hundreds of people. Spider-man Popsicles melted in kids' hands and dogs hid under bushes for the shade. But with a sudden, thunder-like noise, the crowd perked up. Fat Albert came out of the corner of the sky and flew across the Severn River. The Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron, recently performed above the Severn River. While people watched all over Annapolis, hundreds gathered at the World War II Memorial to watch the Blue Angels flip, dive and accelerate in the air.
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Motherboard
Getting a job can be challenging in the best of circumstances, but for military veterans and their spouses it can be even harder, not least of which because their accrued skills may not directly transfer to the private sector. Uber, the $62 billion poster boy for the sharing economy, where people share access to everything from cars (Uber) to apartments (Airbnb) in exchange for dinero, changed that for at least 56,000 veterans.
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WNBC-TV
A group of angry U.S. military veterans lined up in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City to say that Donald Trump would make a "reckless and dangerous commander in chief." The protest on the street below his luxurious apartment was led by a Marine Corps veteran, Alexander McCoy. He accused the presumptive Republican nominee of being "a fraud" for saying he collected $6 million for struggling veterans at a January fundraiser.
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