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All in the Family

Last month, President Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor — the United States’ highest military award — to Tech Sgt. John A. Chapman. An Air Force combat controller, Chapman was killed by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in March 2002 after his helicopter crashed. During the ensuing battle, Chapman lost consciousness and was left […]

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Abandoning Borrowers

The common wisdom is that college is a must-take route to lifetime success. Most people fuel their journey with student loans. A federal agency created to make sure education consumers have protection is siding with financial sharks instead. Student-loan oversight was a significant part of the portfolio of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in […]

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Field Survival

Once a long time ago, I was forced to go to the Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape school, or SERE. A good chunk of the experience teaches Boy Scout knowledge to help you not die in the woods — important things, like figuring out what mushroom is poisonous, or how to make terrifying-looking water drinkable. […]

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Honor McCain’s Values

The airwaves will be filled with tributes to Senator John McCain (1936-2018) in the days to come.  And rightly so.  McCain was one of the bravest, most decent and honorable political leaders of our time. As a Republican Senator for over four decades, many disagreed with his politics but few ever doubted his values or questioned […]

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Leveraging LinkedIn

Earlier in the summer, I wrote about the new LinkedIn feature to help military spouses obtain and maintain professional opportunities through LinkedIn Premium at no cost. The program is now live. There are a few things you need to do to take advantage of this beneficial program. To use the program, you must have moved […]

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No Parade

As any good student of history knows, Veterans Day’s origins go back to Nov. 11, 1919, with the first observance of Armistice Day. That was the first anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in World War I, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. After attending France’s Bastille […]

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Benefit Transfer

Two weeks after the D-Day landings in Normandy, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, more commonly known as the GI Bill. That landmark measure would provide both college tuition grants and a stipend for the returning service members who had “been compelled to make greater economic sacrifice and every other kind of sacrifice than […]

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‘Good Idea Fairy’

It is tough to publicly critique someone you respect but, if the issue is important enough, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and let fly. In a recent War on the Rocks article, Paula Thornhill provided a set of recommendations she believes would improve professional military education. If anyone is qualified to tackle this […]

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From Protestor to Marine

The very first protest I ever participated in took place on April 7, 1990, when several racist groups paraded through the college town of Miami, Ohio, on minority recruitment weekend. My friends, a ragtag group of musicians, skateboarders, art students, and punk rock aficionados, and I defied the university’s warnings to “Stay away on Saturday” […]

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Practice Makes Perfect

When people say Columbia Journalism School is like boot camp for journalists, they are not kidding. Instead of carrying a rifle and a 100-pound pack on my back, I’m lugging around camera gear and tripods in either the hot, cool, or freezing cold streets of New York City. Moreover, you force yourself to speak with […]

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Trump’s Cronies

ProPublica published its piece about the Mar-a-Lago trio, including Marvel Comics Ike Perlmutter, who are believed to be the shadow leaders running the agency. Once word got out there, my inbox got a flood of emails from readers concerned about the news, which certainly appears true. Now, a host of major news publications are running […]

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Licenses for Spouses

Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson was at Scott Air Force Base recently, which was a great opportunity to show her the importance of the base to our nation’s defense and this community’s deep support for its military. She shared some concerns that should be important to us, and that state leaders can help […]

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