The 450,000-square-foot plant in Independence, Missouri, is expected to be fully operational by 2028. Veteran crisis lines going remote yielded more opportunities to expand and offer more help. Return-to-office mandates complicate that mission, workers say. Democratic lawmakers are demanding immediate action to make clear that federally employed military spouses are exempt from the rule. Hospital Corpsman Billy Bui said his sense of duty comes from his grandfather, who risked everything to help his family flee Vietnam. Military spouses employed by the federal government are "categorically exempt" from the Trump administration's return-to-office mandate. "We're trying to calm a whole community," said one military spouse advocate who's looking for answers. A new program ends a blanket requirement that families must live on base in order for their children to attend DOD schools. A typical integrated team will have three DIs of one gender and a fourth of the opposite gender, with most featuring three male instructors and one female. By Hope Hodge Seck
6 months ago Cpl. Jesse Thomas Bopp pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 2023 shooting of a fellow Marine, 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Austin Schwenk. When Justin Kelley graduates today from Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, he’ll be a gunnery sergeant. By Hope Hodge Seck
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