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Trump plans to use active-duty military forces to deal with growing protests
The president said the extra forces are needed to deal with increasingly violent actors in major cities.
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Nazi headstones will be removed from US veterans cemeteries, VA leaders say
The headstones are engraved with a swastika, an iron cross and inscription in German that reads “He died far from his home for the Führer, people and fatherland.”
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Esper encourages governors to ‘dominate the battlespace’ to put down nationwide protests
President Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper are encouraging governors to send in more Guard troops.
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Senator: Deploy active-duty military to deal with violent protesters
Army veteran Tom Cotton said that military force is the answer to the growing unrest among demonstrators.
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Protesters damage Veterans Affairs headquarters, several DC war monuments
VA officials spent Monday morning working to assess the extent of the protest damage.
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This week in Congress: In-person hearings return as coronavirus ebbs
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of June 1, 2020.
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New coronavirus cases decreasing among troops, but deaths are up across DoD
Total deaths rose to 36 this week, including a third service member.
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Veterans disability exams to resume at some sites as backlog hits 114,000, nearly doubling in six months
Currently 114,000 veterans are waiting for compensation and pension exams to finalize their disability claims.
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VA says it’ll stop almost all use of unproven drug on vets for coronavirus
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie said Thursday that his department has all but stopped use of an unproven malaria drug on veterans with COVID-19.
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Taliban in Kabul to discuss prisoner releases under US peace deal
A five-member Taliban team was in Kabul on Thursday to follow up on this week’s prisoner release by the Afghan government that saw hundreds of insurgents freed. It was the single largest such release since a U.S.-Taliban deal earlier this year spelling an exchange of detainees between the warring sides.
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The Pentagon has spent 23% of its COVID-19 response funds. Congress is asking why not more.
The Pentagon has spent less than a quarter of the $10.6 billion Congress gave it in March to protect military personnel and marshal American industry to procure face masks, ventilators and other products hospitals need in their fight against the coronavirus.
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