The Coast Guard Is Retiring Its Last Hamilton-Class High Endurance Cutter

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The Coast Guard will say goodbye Saturday to the last of its workhorse open-ocean cutters of the past 50 years, the 378-foot high endurance cutter Douglas Munro. At 49 years of service, the Hamilton-class cutter Munro will be decommissioned in a ceremony at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, Alaska, heralding completion of Deepwater, a replacement effort …

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The Army vowed change after Vanessa Guillén’s murder. One year later, it’s just getting started

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Mayra Guillén turned 22 years old on the day U.S. Army investigators told her they had found her sister’s body buried in three separate shallow graves next to a river in central Texas.  The news came on June 30, two months after her 20-year-old sister, Spc. Vanessa Guillén, went missing from Fort Hood, Texas, on …

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Oklahoma Passes Bill to Pay for Funerals of Guard Troops Who Die While on State Orders

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The Oklahoma Senate on Monday unanimously passed a bill to reimburse the families of fallen Oklahoma National Guard members who die on state active-duty orders for their funeral expenses. The legislation was sent to Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday. He has up to five working days to enact or veto the bill, as Oklahoma is …

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Czechs expel more Russians, escalating spat over 2014 blast

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PRAGUE (AP) – The Czech Republic on Thursday ordered more Russian diplomats to leave the country, further escalating a fierce tug-of-war between the two nations over the alleged involvement of Russian spies in a massive ammunition depot explosion in 2014. Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek said Russia won’t be allowed to have more diplomats in Prague …

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