June 03, 2014, ARLINGTON, Va. - Following a comprehensive energy audit, the Army National Guard Readiness Center is scheduled to receive a $20 million Energy Savings Performance Contract that will pay for itself over the next 20 years. An ESPC is an agreement between a federal agency and an energy service company that allows federal agencies to complete energy-savings … [Read more...]
Give An Hour Provides Free Mental Health Assistance to Veterans
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 29, 2014 /PRNewswire - Give an Hour, a national nonprofit organization providing free mental health services to members of the military, veterans, their loved ones and their communities, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with film production company Herald Square Entertainment, LLC, to highlight public awareness of acute battlefield … [Read more...]
Exercise Builds Better Warfighters
May 29, 2014, FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. - Texas Military Forces’ 36th Infantry Division joined military members from all across the country to hone their warfighting and peacekeeping skills in a wide-scoped, big picture training exercise. Soldiers and Airmen delved into a battlefield scenario and fought through a designed conflict to come away with very real results. The … [Read more...]
U.S. to Keep Nearly 10,000 Troops in Afghanistan in 2015
WASHINGTON, May 28, 2014 - President Barack Obama today announced the United States plans to keep nearly 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan next year - a level largely in line with what U.S. commanders had requested - and that nearly all U.S. forces will leave the country by the end of 2016, bringing to an end a U.S. military mission that began in response to the 9/11 … [Read more...]
Blue Star Museums Offers Free Admission to Military Families at 2,000+ Museums Nationwide
May 23, 2014, WASHINGTON, DC - NEA Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa and Blue Star Families CEO Kathy Roth-Douquet announced the fifth annual launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to the nation’s service … [Read more...]