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Military.com
Dozens of veterans groups met with members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team to outline their priorities for the incoming administration, including opposing any push to privatize the Veterans Affairs Department. The roughly two-hour meeting took place behind closed doors at the American Legion's headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to the organization's Executive Director Verna Jones, who spoke to Military.com afterward.
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Military.com
Troops would get their biggest pay raise in years under the final version of Congress' annual defense policy bill unveiled Tuesday.
The 2.1 percent increase, included in the National Defense Authorization Act, would break a five-year trend of raises that have fallen below the private sector. The higher pay would go into effect Jan. 1 if the bill is passed by Congress, and it could receive an initial vote in the House.
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Military.com
The Pentagon's new policy for carrying firearms on base is intended for uniformed service members and civilians working for the U.S. military — not for retirees, Defense Department officials maintain.
"Arming and the Use of Force," a Nov. 18 Department of Defense Directive approved by Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, provides detailed guidance to the services for permitting soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guard personnel to carry privately owned firearms on DoD property, according to the document.
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U.S. Department of Defense
As the nation observes the 75th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Defense Department honors the men and women who lost their lives, and those who fought on to preserve the nation's freedom.
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Watertown Daily Times
Researchers at Syracuse University have seen a common thread between the skills that many veterans possess and those found in successful entrepreneurs, such as decision-making in changing environments, confidence and autonomous working. "There is a body of research that says those attributes are linked," said Rosalinda V. Maury, director of applied research at the university’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families. Among those who might align with the study's finding is Scott J. Tolan, owner of No Remorse Cross Fit, Watertown, New York.
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Rigzone
From the chairman of the board to the worker on the rig, veterans of the United States military are finding their experience befits a career in the oil and gas industry.
At Dominion Resources Inc., president and CEO Thomas Farrell II was born on an Army base into a family of servicemen. His grandfather served in World War I. His uncle died in Italy. His father went to Vietnam. "I saw first-hand both the pride in national service and the toll that service extracts from individuals and families," he said in a recent commentary for the Troops to Energy partnership, an organization that matches veterans with civilian jobs in energy. As part of the program, Dominion and other companies build flexibility into their hiring practices to teach veterans a trade or skill through apprenticeships and on-the-job training. Formal mentoring and veterans' networking groups are also important. About 20 percent of Dominion's new hires are veterans, he said.
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Fortune
"Our commitment has not expired because we took off the uniform," said one Native veteran.
In the back reaches of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp, U.S. military veterans, armed with saws, hammers and other tools, are quietly building barracks, an infirmary and a mess hall.
Despite the bitter cold and an evacuation order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the veterans hope to erect enough space to house at least several hundred peers making their way into the Oceti Sakowin Camp in Cannon Ball, Dakota.
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CBN News
U.S. military veterans rallied outside Hampshire College in Amherst to raise the U.S. flag. The peaceful demonstration came in response to the school's decision to take it down.
The controversy began after the presidential election, when students who were angry about Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton lashed out by setting the flag on fire. However, many veterans took offense to the students burning the American flag, calling it an insult to their sacrifice in the defense of safety, democracy and American values.
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