Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 14, 2015. The Department of Defense announced today the death of an airman who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. Tech. Sgt. Anthony E. Salazar, 40, of Hermosa Beach, California, died April 13, at an air base in southwest Asia in a non-combat related incident. The incident is under[Read More…]

CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—April 14, 2015. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) yesterday presented Chicago resident Joe Hoppe, a World War II veteran, with five medals he earned for his service in the Navy at Autumn Green Senior Living Center. When Durbin met Hoppe at a seniors’ forum last year, he learned the[Read More…]

Contracts Awarded to Assisted Living Providers WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–April 13, 2015.  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced the award of 20 contracts for the Assisted Living Pilot Program for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (AL-TBI). Originally slated to end in 2014, the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of[Read More…]

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks at a joint press conference with South Korean Defense Minister Han Min Koo at the Ministry of National Defense in Seoul, South Korea, April 10, 2015. Carter is on a visit to the U.S. Pacific Command Area of Responsibility to make observations for the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2015 – 12:38 P.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT:  General Padilla, thank you very much for the introduction.  And it is genuinely an honor to be here before such an incredibly distinguished audience.  And, Ambassador Nesbitt, thank you.  She is a senior vice president.  I’m just a Vice[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 9, 2015. The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. Spc. John M. Dawson, 22, of Whitinsville, Massachusetts, died April 8, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when he was attacked by small arms fire while he was on[Read More…]

2010 Continuing Promise mission to Nicaragua and Panama Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2015. l Nurse volunteers with Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a disaster relief project of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Foundation, will embark this week upon the USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), a Military Sealift Command ship,[Read More…]

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2015.  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing a Notice of Funding Availability for up to $8 million in grants for fiscal year 2015 to provide adaptive sports opportunities for disabled Veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces throughout fiscal year 2016. “We encourage non-profit[Read More…]

Bill Would Establish Commemorative Chair on U.S. Capitol Grounds; Companion Legislation Introduced in House by Congressman Lynch WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—March 26, 2015. United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senator Marco Rubio (R – Fla.) and a bipartisan group of their Senate colleagues today introduced legislation in the Senate and House[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2015.  This week, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) and Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) led a bipartisan letter to the Subcommittee on Defense of the House Committee on Appropriations requesting inclusion of $30 million for peer-reviewed orthopaedic research in the FY 2016 Defense Appropriations legislation. Twenty-nine members of Congress[Read More…]