Author: Michael

In a major shake-up of how the Army divides up the world, the service announced Friday the activation of the Western Hemisphere Command, shuffling three commands under a single four-star general.
Gen. Joseph Ryan will be the first commander of the Army Western Hemisphere Command, which the Army is referring to as USAWHC. Ryan will take over from his role as the Army’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans, and Training at the Pentagon. 
USAWHC will be tasked with the defense of U.S.

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Service members and veterans who earned the Medal of Honor for their actions will see a sizable increase in their special pensions. Their special annual pension will more than quadruple under a new law. 
After the Monetary Enhancement for Distinguished Active Legends (or MEDAL) Act was signed into effect this week, recipients will see their Medal of Honor pensions increase from a base of $1,406.73 to $5,625 per month. Annually, their honorarium will go from roughly $18,000 to $67,500. 
The new law applies to living Medal of Honor recipients. It also creates a new monthly rate of $1,406.

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It almost sounds like a Tom Clancy novel: a few hundred pro-Assad fighters, including Russian Wagner Group mercenaries, charge an American position in the Syrian desert. American troops respond with artillery, drones, F-22s, Apaches, an AC-130 gunship, and a few other surprise guests. By sunrise, their attack force is shattered.
But this wasn’t fiction. It was February 2018, near the Syrian town of Khasham, where the U.S. military went toe-to-toe with Russian-linked fighters on a scale not seen in decades. This time, the “little green men” weren’t acknowledged soldiers in uniform.

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Air Force veteran Chris Jachimiec was on his first deployment to Kuwait in 2000 when he found out his mother had passed away. He returned to the states and was prescribed an antidepressant.
For nearly two decades, Jachimiec was prescribed Lexapro on and off as he dealt with a number of personal tragedies, losing his grandmother and brother to suicide, and work stress. As those stressors compounded with hurricane response missions and needing to account for airmen after the 2017 mass shooting at a festival in Las Vegas, Jachimiec’s drinking habits also picked up.

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