Author: Michael

Sunisa “Suni” Lee, 21, won a gold and two bronze medals during the 2024 Tokyo Olympics, her second time medaling in gymnastics after taking the Olympic all-around gold in 2020.
In both games and over the course of her career, the loudest cheers for Lee’s success have come from St. Paul, Minnesota, where Lee grew up in the city’s Hmong community. Lee is a first-generation Hmong American, the daughter of Hmong refugees John Lee and Yee Thoj. Like many Hmong families in St. Paul and a handful of other close-knit communities, her parents arrived in the U.S.

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In a move meant to boost fighting spirit in new Air Force and Space Force recruits, basic trainees are now issued M-4 rifles early in boot camp which they carry and maintain throughout the course at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Carrying a weapon through boot camp is a long-standing practice in the Army and Marine Corps, but has been an on-again, off-again policy at the Air Force’s Basic Military Training course, or BMT, which inducts its enlisted members into military life.

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Chapter 1: The Beginning
My name is Julie Eshelman and I am the spouse of an Active Guard Reserve Army Reservist. We just completed our fifth move in seven years all while navigating infertility and family building. Over the coming weeks, I will be telling you an incredibly personal story to raise awareness, help erase the stigma surrounding the topics of infertility and pregnancy loss, and if you are on a similar journey, show you you’re not alone.

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As it looks at how to provide warfighters with readily available 5G communications, the Pentagon’s FutureG office is concurrently pursuing applied research into new technologies that will serve as the department’s foundation for accessing future generations of wireless capabilities.
The office, which is in charge of research-and-development efforts for advanced wireless network capabilities, has three projects underway in its “Beyond 5G” portfolio that it plans to carry out through at least fiscal 2025.

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Many military spouses are rethinking their relationship with alcohol, saying farewell to their nightly drink of choice. While everyone has their reasons for consuming alcoholic beverages—from the taste to the feeling it provides—many Americans, including military spouses, find comfort in drinking while cooking dinner, socializing at events, or dealing with stressful times. However, some are discovering it’s a slippery slope.

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