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November 24, 2021

 

Veterans groups urge Congress to stick by changes in the way sexual assault is handled within the military In letters sent to leadership of each chamber and of their armed services committees, the groups call for full passage of the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention, which would overhaul how the military handles non-military felonies, including sexual assault. READ MORE

Army officer who wrote to McCain about detainee torture in Iraq, Afghanistan, dies at 42 In 2005, while a captain in the 82nd Airborne Division, Ian Fishback wrote to Sen. John McCain about his concerns over the treatment of detainees and whether the Geneva Convention applied to Iraq and Afghanistan. Later that year, the Senate passed legislation from McCain to prohibit inhumane treatment and Time magazine named Fishback to its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. READ MORE

‘Incredible life’: Navy mourns ‘Daddy Mike,’ a Sasebo Naval Base legend Minoru “Daddy Mike” Yoneda, who died Nov. 3 at age 91, was a Navy veteran. He was a base ambassador, resident philosopher, historian and tour guide. He was a connoisseur of fine dining and an advocate for the children of military families. READ MORE   VA secretary warns veterans care could suffer with continued stop-gap funding measures Democrats are seeking a 10% funding increase for the VA in fiscal 2022, bringing its total budget to nearly $270 billion. Forcing a 10-month continuing resolution would keep the VA at last year’s budget of $243 billion — an amount last negotiated under Trump’s administration. READ MORE   Judge dismisses neglect case against former superintendent, medical director of Holyoke Soldiers’ Home They were charged by state Attorney General Maura Healey’s office in connection with a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at the soldiers’ home as the pandemic began to crest in the spring of 2020. READ MORE

NJ man pleads guilty to $400,000 GoFundMe scam about helping homeless veteran The GoFundMe campaign started with the lie that veteran Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had come to Katelyn McClure's rescue when she ran out of gas off an exit on I-95 in Philadelphia on a cold night in the fall of 2017. They falsely claimed that Bobbitt used his last $20 to pay for her gas and posted a photo of McClure and Bobbitt in front of the Girard Avenue exit of I-95 with the title "Paying It Forward." READ MORE   Marcella LeBeau, WWII nurse and tribal leader, dies at 102 Marcella Rose LeBeau, an Army nurse who was honored for her service during World War II and leadership in the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, has died. She was 102. READ MORE   Julia Kabance, nation’s oldest female WWII veteran, dies at 111 Julia Kabance, 111, the nation’s oldest living female World War II veteran and oldest living member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, died Tuesday, the tribe announced. She served from 1943 to 1945 in the Women’s Army Corps. READ MORE   Iraq War veteran launches business to employ former soldiers Tools for Veterans is housed in a workshop that Iraq War veteran Justin Billard set up in his home garage. There, he collects old hand tools, cleans and restores them and sells them online or at local events READ MORE   Capitol Riot probe turns to extremist group members linked to attack, including Army veteran The subpoenas announced Tuesday were issued to Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale Law graduate; Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, who was chairman of Proud Boys at the time; and Robert Patrick Lewis, chairman of a group that calls itself 1st Amendment Praetorian. READ MORE   Remains of NJ soldier killed in WWII identified 76 years after he went missing in Germany Larry S. Wassil, of Bloomfield, was leading a three-man reconnaissance team scouting enemy positions near Bergstein in late 1944 when he disappeared, the U.S. Department of Defense said. Wassil and the two other soldiers scattered when Axis forces began firing on them. READ MORE

 

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