FEBRUARY 10, 2023 – The Feb. 15 deadline to apply to the Scholarships for Military Children program, administered by the nonprofit Fisher House Foundation, is almost here. A total of 500 scholarship grants, each for $2,000, will be awarded for the 2023-24 school year with at least one recipient selected at every commissary location where qualified applications are received. … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2023
AFN Airing Super Bowl LVII
FEBRUARY 10, 2023 - The Defense Media Activity (DMA) and the American Forces Network (AFN) invites its overseas audiences to enjoy the military network’s full-day coverage of America’s most watched sporting event, the Super Bowl, beginning this Sunday, February 12. With the generous support of the National Football League (NFL), AFN will air Super Bowl LVII live on its … [Read more...]
Marines Kick Off Bushido Strike in South Korea
U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force Support Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, board a C-130J Super Hercules on Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 20, 2023. III MSB sent a small quartering party to prepare the main body movement prior to Bushido Strike 23, a training event in South Korea where III MSB will conduct their Marine … [Read more...]
DoD Is Focused on China
FEBRUARY 10, 2023 - A Defense Department official today stressed to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that China remains the pacing challenge for the U.S. government. This is embedded in the National Defense Strategy, and DOD officials are constantly working to ensure the strategic competition with China does not veer into conflict, Ely Ratner, the assistant secretary … [Read more...]
A New Generation of Marine is Berthing
FEBRUARY 10, 2023 – Drive two minutes on the highway and you may have already passed it; Livonia, the smallest town in Louisiana, with a population less than 1,300 people, emerged a formidable hard charger who was ever so hungry for a challenge away from home. "I purposely chose infantry knowing it was going to be the one of the hardest jobs in the Marine Corps, but I wanted … [Read more...]