Author: Michael

The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded more than $800 million to local nonprofits around the United States to fund rapid rehousing efforts for veterans and help low-income families avoid slipping into homelessness. 
The funds were awarded across 253 grants, with the awarding of them announced on Friday, Aug. 16. The nonprofits, which work to build trust with unhoused veterans to provide them with help, rely on these types of grants to pay for urgent bills or emergency costs facing veterans and their families. 
Roughly $8.

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Guards stationed at an entrance gate at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland were attacked two times in the early hours of Saturday, Aug. 17. They eventually returned fire, before the gunmen fled the scene.
No arrests have been made, according to authorities, and no guards were injured. The attacks took place at the entrance gate for Lackland Air Force Base and the Chapman Training Annex, part of the wider installation. Around 2:15 a.m. the guards came under fire, with multiple shots aimed toward the gate.

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Airmen at Nellis Air Force Base are out of luck for now. The head of Air Combat Command, Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, denied a request from the commander of the 99th Air Base Wing to let troops at the base wear boonie hats during the hotter months of the year. 
When Col. Joshua DeMotts, head of the 99th Air Base Wing based out of Nellis Air Force Base, wrote to Wilsbach requesting permission to let airmen have the option to wear Operational Camouflage Pattern boonie hats instead of the regular caps they currently wear.

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