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Stephen Simmons, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy is an idiot who is hiding behind the constitution to take away service members free speech. Stephen Simmons, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy, said service members posting disparagingly about Kirk were violating their oath to the constitution, and said Hegseth “knows (as do we all) that this cancer that desecrates the constitution - and the people for whom it was written - must be neutralized.” -
“People who join the military have less First Amendment rights than those who don’t, but they still have robust First Amendment rights,” Christen said. And while there are exceptions for making disparaging remarks about the chain of command or political statements in uniform, Christensen added, there’s not a carve-out “that says Pete Hedgehog doesn’t like what you’re saying so I’m going to prosecute you.”
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. military carried out a strike on a Venezuelan drug cartel vessel that had been on its way to the United States, the second such strike carried out against a suspected drug boat in recent weeks. He said three men were killed in the strike, adding that it occurred in international waters.
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Growing up in the Philippines on the island of Mindanao, Ben Hagans and his friends climbed coconut trees on his family’s plantation, fished for tuna and mahi-mahi, and raced homemade boats in the ocean—all without a stitch of clothing. When Ben was 9, his father took him on a six-month sailing adventure to Australia, India, and Vietnam. But when he was 12, Ben’s idyllic childhood abruptly ended. Imperial Japan invaded the archipelago nation just hours after bombing Pearl Harbor. And after Allied forces surrendered to the Japanese on Mindanao Island six months later, Ben and his parents spent most of World War II in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, where his mother was forced into sexual slavery and Ben and his dad nearly died from starvation and illness.
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The U.S. Navy, working with Joint Region Marianas, has announced the start of a new housing initiative to ensure service members and their families are provided sufficient homes while stationed on Guam. With an increased number of service members relocating to Guam over the next 10 years, housing demand is expected to grow. While military construction projects are underway, additional homes will be needed to support readiness and family stability. Two-Phase Approach:
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