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Additional reporting by Katherine Lewin The U.S. veterans’ health care system is the the largest and only publicly-funded, fully integrated system of its kind in a country that has historically struggled to provide quality healthcare to all citizens. And the current environment could negatively impact care particularly for veterans, according…
Originally posted on Accenture.com Accenture Federal Services Wins Position on Defense Information Systems Agency Contract for Innovative Technology Solutions Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide systems engineering and technology solutions that transform the way soldiers interact with…
Boeing has been granted a 2020 Military Friendly Top 10 designation. See the company’s announcement below. To see how Boeing works to accommodate veterans and military families, click here.
Originally posted on Hilton.com The #1 Best Company to Work For® in the U.S. pledges to hire 25,000 additional veterans, military spouses, and caregivers by 2025 McLean, Va. – Hilton today announced that it has achieved its Operation: Opportunity target of hiring 30,000 veterans, military spouses and caregivers over the past six years…
Many have called the War on Terror the “War of Terror” because it has taken the lives of more than half a million civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is also having alarming health effects on U.S. troops. Veterans and troops that have seen combat in these wars are…
In a rare move, military leaders were actually punished for sexual assault and drinking in their Navy SEAL Team 7 unit while deployed in Iraq–but they will stay in the military. “Commander, Navy Special Warfare Command Read Adm. Collin Green relieved the three senior leaders of SEAL Team Seven from…
The biggest budget cuts so far to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border are on the horizon. The border wall will have a total of $3.6 billion funneled from military projects like schools, target ranges and maintenance facilities, The Associated Press reports. $1.1 billion in cuts would directly affect…
Sgt. Waverly Woodson Jr., also known as “Woody,” was a 21-year-old medic in an all-Black brigade during World War II when he and other Black soldiers were the first to step on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. The young soldier had been injured by shrapnel that tore through his…
Sexual assault in the military has increased dramatically from 2016 to 2018, in spite of efforts to curb it. According to a study by the Department of Defense’s 2018 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, there has been a 38 percent increase in assaults over the last two…
Major General Marcelite Jordan Harris, the first Black woman to serve as a major general in the U.S. military, was laid to rest with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 7, alongside her husband, Lt. Col. Maurice Harris, USAF (Ret.). Harris died unexpectedly on Sept. 7, 2018,…