MCRD SAN DIEGO — When the first-ever platoon of female Marine recruits landed here at the Corps’ West Coast recruit depot earlier this year, their training was just as difficult as that of their male counterparts — but differed in one small, important way. Lima Company, the platoon’s parent unit, was one of two recruit …
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As I sorted through my trunk of outdoor gear the night before jumping on a flight to Las Vegas, I realized how many years of accumulation had passed. There was a 15-year old GPS unit for my car, maps of the Quantico highlands and various public lands, and protractors for plotting an azimuth the old-fashioned …
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PARIS (AP) – Paris prosecutors on Monday requested the end of a years-long investigation of accusations of involvement of France’s peacekeeping force in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in which an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered. French investigative magistrates are now in charge of making the definitive decision. Prosecutors concluded that the investigation didn’t establish …
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TYSONS, Va., May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The PenFed Foundation, a national 501(c)3 founded by PenFed Credit Union, is launching a Spring cohort of the Veteran Entrepreneur Investment Program (VEIP) Master’s Program. With the generous sponsorship of SOSi, a family-owned, government services integrator that works principally in the defense sector, the Spring VEIP Master’s Program …
No arrests have been made nearly five months after a Special Forces soldier and veteran were found dead Dec. 2, at Fort Bragg, an official said this week. A spokesman for the Army Criminal Investigation Command said the investigation continues into the deaths of Master Sgt. William LaVigne II, 37, and Army veteran Timothy Dumas, …
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