Tag: military service

What’s in Store for VA Disability Benefits with New Office of Management and Budget Chief?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

What’s in Store for VA Disability Benefits with New Office of Management and Budget Chief?

Vought, confirmed Thursday in a 53-47 Senate vote, spearheaded a 2023 report by the Center for Renewing America think tank that called for reducing VA disability compensation for veterans who reach Social Security retirement age and eliminating unemployability benefits for these veterans as well.

The report also proposed cutting disability compensation to veterans with ratings lower than 30% and dropping disability compensation for veterans whose health conditions aren’t directly related to military duty.

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GOP lawmakers sound alarm on military voting ‘deficiencies’ ahead of Election Day 🤷🏼‍♀️

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

GOP lawmakers sound alarm on military voting ‘deficiencies’ ahead of Election Day

Active duty service members claim the Pentagon has not allocated enough resources to let them cast their ballot on time and that the stockpile of write-in absentee ballots on at least one military base is depleted and has not been replenished, according to three GOP congressmen. 

The ballot is available for download, below. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP):

Vote as a backup using the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB)

South China Sea: Philippines debates boosting war readiness through mandatory military training for students

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Renewed talks on a bill that would reinstate a mandatory Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) programme in colleges and universities in the Philippines has sparked debate on whether it would be effective in strengthening the country’s military amid growing tensions in the South China Sea.

South China Sea: Philippines debates boosting war readiness through mandatory military training for students

War-weary mothers, wives and children of Ukrainian soldiers demand a cap on military service time

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

I’ve excluded the paragraph pertaining to the perception management regarding momentum and knock out blows..

My understanding is Russia regularly rotates soldiers and it appears Russia will gain the upper hand in Avdiivka, if they do the loss will be enormous for Ukraine

War-weary mothers, wives and children of Ukrainian soldiers demand a cap on military service time

Ukrainian government persecutes pacifist, while Zelensky meets with neo-Nazi leader

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The NATO-backed government of President Volodymyr Zelensky has officially charged Ukrainian peace activist Yurii Sheliazhenko with “justification of Russian aggression.” After the country’s Security Service (SBU) raided his Kiev apartment earlier this month, Sheliazhenko has been interrogated and placed under nightly house arrest as he awaits prosecution.

Ukrainian government persecutes pacifist, while Zelensky meets with neo-Nazi leader

Related:

Ukrainian pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko sentenced to house arrest until October 11 from 10pm to 6am the next day

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