A group of 13 women with over 100 years of military service between them are raising money for VA hospital programs with a 50s-style pin-up fashion calendar.
The 2025 Pin-Ups For Vets’ calendar features two Purple Heart recipients, an Army Lt. Colonel who served 39 months in Iraq on three deployments, and a 25-year Marine Corps veteran who lost their arm.
The calendar, in its fourth year, previously donated more than $120,000 to VA hospitals for new rehabilitation equipment.
Author: Michael
Army Ranger Master Sgt. Joe Thach was driving to work Friday morning when traffic began to slow and billowing smoke erupted just ahead of him. It was, he realized, a car beginning to burn, with the driver stuck inside. The senior Ranger NCO leaped into the fiery wreck and pulled out an entrapped driver, almost certainly saving the man’s life.
Thach is no stranger to such moments.
For one, he’s an 18-year Army vet, with more than half that time at the 75th Ranger Regiment. His combat awards include a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star with V device.
Celebrating a military retirement – whether it’s yours or for your spouse – is a monumental occasion, marking the end of a dedicated career and the beginning of a new chapter filled with freedom, endless possibilities, and maybe a little bit of panic at the thought of navigating civilian life. There’s no better way to honor this milestone and kick off terminal leave by embarking on an epic vacation.
After a big move, one of the worst parts is not having “your people” there with you. Whether that means laughing about the local town gossip or meeting up for a quick bite, to backyard barbeques where everyone hangs out and relaxes, these activities are best done with friends.
The problem, of course, is not having friends once you move. You may have people from work, or those who are nice enough to invite you.
This is Chapter 2 in the Grief Memoir. Read Chapter 1 here.
After leaving my mom at the end of September 2019, life seemed to go back to normal and the fall passed by quickly. Mom’s radiation went well, family and friends helped her go to appointments, brought food and visited her. My family went on our annual Friendsgiving vacation with our Army friends. My mom slowly went back to work part-time after radiation, and continued to be the same. I could tell she was tired but for the most part I wasn’t too worried.
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Guest post by Greg Salsbury
Now that she has been picked as a presidential candidate, Democrats as well as their friends at The Washington Examiner, CNN, CBS, NPR, Reuters, MSNBC, and elsewhere are suddenly furious that some people have referred to Kamala Harris as a “DEI hire.” At his recent appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists conference earlier this month President Trump was grilled by ABC’s Rachel Scott about this trend and asked whether he agreed with other Republicans calling Vice President Harris a DEI hire.
Pentagon leadership selected Anduril’s Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicles as part of the second tranche of capabilities to be quickly mass produced via the high-profile modernization effort known as Replicator, multiple sources told DefenseScoop this week.
This news marks the first public report of technologies that made the Defense Department’s cut for Replicator 1.2 — and it also follows the company’s recently revealed plans to launch a new factory in Rhode Island to speed-up the manufacturing of these advanced uncrewed platforms.
Dearest Gentle Reader…We are all well aware of how tough it can be to find hobbies and a community we love through this military lifestyle. This is your reminder that at times you need to create your own in order to thrive and bloom where you are planted.
Two years ago, we arrived at our new duty station with the heartfelt hope of finding a village as great as the one we had just left behind. After months of searching and having no luck of a perfect match, this author decided to create a group of her own that catered to lovers of literature.
Army Lt. Col. Roderick Vinson, whose military career spanned 37 years, died Aug. 11 while exercising near his off-base residence in Sumter, South Carolina, Army officials announced.
Investigators do not suspect foul play in connection with Vinson’s death, according to the Sumpter Police Department and County Coroner’s Office. His autopsy is scheduled for Thursday. The coroner’s office said it may take a while for test results to determine the exact cause of his death.
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