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Fears of - hollow force' unfounded, lawmakers told
The Congressional Research Service has a message for those who suggest planned defense budget cuts and military compensation curbs will return America to the " hollow force " era of the 1970s.

Military spends $363 million on weight loss surgery
Free gastric bypass, lap-band, tummy tuck, and other weight-loss related surgeries are fast becoming the "it" thing for military dependents, especially soldiers' wives. Using the Freedom of Information Act, reporters at KIRO-TV -- WTOV9's sister station in Seattle -- have uncovered the never-before ...

Fears of a hollow forcea unfounded, lawmakers told
The Congressional Research Service has a message for those who suggest planned defense budget cuts and military compensation curbs will return America to the "hollow force" era of the 1970s.

LinkedIn and Google Help U.S. veterans Find Work and Each Other
USArmy-150-150.jpg As of October 2011, 850,000 U.S. veterans were unemployed. The jobless rate for post-9/11 vets hit 12.1 percent. With an estimated one million service members scheduled to leave the military between 2011 and 2016, it was high time for President obama to find new ...

Fears of 'hollow force' unfounded, lawmakers told
The Congressional Research Service has a message for those who suggest planned defense budget cuts and military compensation curbs will return America to the "hollow force" era of the 1970s.

Stand With veterans: The Worthy 1 Percent
OWS Occupy Wall Street Rally, Times Square, New York City This year, veterans day should be a day for all of us — all 99 percent of us — to stand with the 1 percent. Not, as Jim Hightower writes, the “corporate CEOs and hedge fund billionaires,” but the “extra-special 1 percent of our society” ...

Celebrate veterans Day By Hiring One
Scores of initiatives are helping veterans get back to work. Here's how your business can help. American veterans returned from war to face an altogether different type of battle: finding a job. As hiring languishes amidst a tepid economy, veterans, especially young male veterans, ...

Gay Service Member Questions Boehner's Staff on DOMA
Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a member of the New Hampshire National Guard who is part of a lawsuit challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act, met Thursday with an assistant to House speaker John Boehner to discuss the detrimental impact of the 1996 law.

President obama supports our female veterans
Buried in a house bill (HR 2646) is a synopsis that says so much about the compassion of our commander-in-chief toward the most vulnerable of our veterans: "Extends to December 31, 2018, specified authority for: (1) treatment, rehabilitation, and additional services for seriously mentally ill ...

Federal, state housing settlement deal to bring $335M to Ohio, AG DeWine says
In remarks President Barack obama made Thursday on the $25 billion settlement agreement federal and state agencies reached with the nation's five largest mortgage services over their abuses involving distressed homeowners, he said the deal "will speed relief to the hardest-hit homeowners, end some of the most abusive practices of the mortgage ... (more)