Advocates recruit vets to attend Afghan allies’ immigration hearings
A pair of advocacy groups is launching a new effort to bring veterans into courthouse immigration hearings involving Afghan allies as a sign of support and reassurance for their roles helping American military forces. The program — spearheaded by AfghanEvac and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America — comes one month after White House officials ended temporary protected status for thousands of A...[Read More]
Advocates recruit vets to attend Afghan allies’ immigration hearings
A pair of advocacy groups is launching a new effort to bring veterans into courthouse immigration hearings involving Afghan allies as a sign of support and reassurance for their roles helping American military forces. The program — spearheaded by AfghanEvac and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America — comes one month after White House officials ended temporary protected status for thousands of A...[Read More]
Lawmakers press VA for details on DOGE access to vets records
Congressional Democrats are renewing concerns that Department of Government Efficiency employees may be accessing veterans’ sensitive personal information without proper authorization, but Veterans Affairs leaders continue to dismiss those accusations as political theater. On Wednesday, House Veterans Affairs Committee ranking member Mark Takano, D-Calif., sent an angry letter demanding immediate ...[Read More]
Lawmakers press VA for details on DOGE access to vets records
Congressional Democrats are renewing concerns that Department of Government Efficiency employees may be accessing veterans’ sensitive personal information without proper authorization, but Veterans Affairs leaders continue to dismiss those accusations as political theater. On Wednesday, House Veterans Affairs Committee ranking member Mark Takano, D-Calif., sent an angry letter demanding immediate ...[Read More]
Trump nominates Marine to be Navy’s new head lawyer
A U.S. Marine is poised to become the top legal officer of the Navy for the first time in over a century, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. David Bligh, who currently serves as the staff judge advocate to the commandant of the Marine Corps, was nominated for appointment as the judge advocate general, or JAG, of the Navy. Bligh would become only the second Marine to h...[Read More]
Fort named after Gen. Robert E. Lee will now honor a Buffalo Soldier
Amid President Donald Trump’s plans to revert the designations of seven Army installations previously named for Confederate fighters to their old names, albeit new namesakes, comes the Army’s announcement that Fort Lee in Virginia will become the first base to be named after a Buffalo Soldier. Fort Lee — initially named after the Confederate general Robert E. Lee — was briefly changed to Fort Greg...[Read More]
Here’s the role an Ohio-class submarine played in the strikes on Iran
At about 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on June 21, a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine launched over two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles into Iran, striking targeted infrastructure sites in Isfahan. Shortly after the Tomahawks were fired, fighter aircraft and B-2 Spirit stealth bombers swept over Iran, culminating in the destruction of Iranian nuclear facilities with the force of 14 GB...[Read More]
Here’s the role an Ohio-class submarine played in the strikes on Iran
At about 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on June 21, a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine launched over two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles into Iran, striking targeted infrastructure sites in Isfahan. Shortly after the Tomahawks were fired, fighter aircraft and B-2 Spirit stealth bombers swept over Iran, culminating in the destruction of Iranian nuclear facilities with the force of 14 GB...[Read More]
Captain Lacey M. Vestal
Captain Lacey Vestal commissioned in 2004 after graduating from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science.
Strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by months, US report says
A U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months after U.S. strikes and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as President Donald Trump has said, according to two people familiar with the early assessment. The report issued by the Defense Intelligence Agency on Monday contradicts statements from Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan...[Read More]
Strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by months, US report says
A U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months after U.S. strikes and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as President Donald Trump has said, according to two people familiar with the early assessment. The report issued by the Defense Intelligence Agency on Monday contradicts statements from Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan...[Read More]
Navy Accepts Delivery of USNS Point Loma
MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of USNS Point Loma (EPF 15), the second of the Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) Flight II configuration, from Austal USA, June 24.