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Army Corps of Engineers supports Baltimore bridge recovery efforts
Remotely operated vehicles and sonar will be used by the Corps, along with the debris removal vessel Reynolds.
By Zamone Perez
Ex-State Dept. official, Marine veteran sentenced over Capitol riot
Federico Klein “waged a relentless siege on police officers” as he tried stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory, prosecutors said.
By Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press
Tuberville to seek floor vote on No. 2 Marine leader
Sen. Tommy Tuberville plans to call a floor vote on the nominee for the Corps’ assistant commandant after Gen. Eric M. Smith suffered a health emergency.
By Ashley Murray, The States Newsroom
Biden creates New Deal-style American Climate Corps for job training
The program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels.
Marine’s adoption of Afghan orphan could be seen as abduction, US says
The U.S. government has warned a Virginia judge that allowing a U.S. Marine to keep an Afghan war orphan risks violating international law,
The Fed Filmgoer: Early Tom Hanks vehicle ‘Volunteers’ still resonates
“I am obviously not of Peace Corps fiber,” Lawrence (Hanks) says at one point. “It’s not that I can’t help these people, it’s just that I don’t want to.”
Army vet tapped for Peace Corps leadership post
David White Jr. is a West Point grad who held a key leadership role in efforts to resettle Afghanistan refugees in the United States.
Army Engineer Corps to study dredging threat to sea turtles
The Army Corps of Engineers has dodged a lawsuit by agreeing to study whether dredging a Georgia shipping channel would threaten sea turtles.
Global military spending up to an all-time high
A Sweden-based watchdog says global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of $2.24 trillion.
Am I subject to the Windfall Elimination Provision?
A retiree questions whether they are being penalized for time spent in the Peace Corps.
By Reg Jones