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Gina Elise was always passionate about art and storytelling but never imagined her path would lead to becoming a pinup for veterans. War would change her plans.
“I have been involved in leadership since I was 13 years old and then all through high school. I really gained these skills of creating things from the ground up. I was the activities director for my high school one year. I felt like it was important to use your skills to make things better for those around you,” she explained.
Elise loved dancing and acting as a child, majoring in theater at UCLA before graduating in 2004.

Long before she raised her hand to become a senator to preserve the constitution and serve America, and even before she established her well-known foundation, Elizabeth Dole was devoted to the military community.
“I have spent most of my life in Washington, DC, but Salisbury, North Carolina, will always be my home,” Dole told WATM. “My family and my community instilled values in me that guide me to this very day. I especially idolized my older brother, John. I was his shadow growing up.

When Kayla Corbitt became an Army spouse, she knew next to nothing about the challenges faced by military families. Once she did, Operation Childcare became her new mission.
The West Virginia native had completed her graduate degree in forensic science when she fell in love with a soldier and had zero knowledge of the military lifestyle. A scientist and researcher at heart, she often jokes that she was tricked and should have known what was ahead when her wedding date changed to accommodate a deployment.

Kristen Christy is no stranger to overcoming adversity. At just 15 years old, after becoming a world-class tennis player, she had a massive stroke that led doctors to tell her she’d never walk again.
She did that and more.
As a child of a career Air Force officer, the military was all she knew, so it was no surprise when she fell in love with Don, an ROTC Air Force cadet at the University of Texas where she was attending school. They began building their life together with their two boys in Colorado when he was deployed to Iraq.

The UK Ministry of Defence notified the industry that it would start a competition to deliver a long-range effector to the Armed Forces.

The Space Force launched its first guardian into space over the weekend.
Col. Nick Hague was launched into space from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on Saturday to join other astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Hague is commanding a Dragon spacecraft for NASA’s Space X Crew-9 mission. Once he arrives at the ISS, Hague will act as a flight engineer for nearly six months and help the crew with various scientific research under the unique conditions that space has to offer, such as microgravity.

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American singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson, best known for his country music, has died. He was 88.
“It is with a heavy heart that we share the news our husband/father/grandfather, Kris Kristofferson, passed away peacefully on Saturday, September 28 at home,” his family said on social media. “We’re all so blessed for our time with him. Thank you for loving him all these many years, and when you see a rainbow, know he’s smiling down at us all.

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The U.S. Navy has big plans for modernizing existing major end items.

Hamilton-Smith, The Strategist