Tag: schriever air force base
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Leader: Schriever lockdown was a false alarm
A false alarm about a suspicious package led to a lockdown at Schriever Air Force Base Thursday. The package was found in Building 780, the base’s post office, at 10:30 a.m. and security forces ordered Schriever’s portals closed and evacuation of the building for an investigation. An investigation later determined the package posed no threat.…
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Schriever Air Force Base colonel headed to trial on allegations of rape, adultery, dirty selfie
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Schriever Air Force Base colonel will head to court-martial in August on a pile of charges, including multiple instances of adultery and a sexual assault. Prosecutors allege Col. Eugene Marcus Caughey’s misconduct dates back…
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Schriever Air Force Base colonel headed to trial on allegations of rape, adultery, dirty selfie
A Schriever Air Force Base colonel will head to court-martial in August on a pile of charges, including multiple instances of adultery and a sexual assault. Prosecutors allege Col. Eugene Marcus Caughey’s misconduct dates back to 2013. The rape allegation stems from a 2014 incident at Schriever, where prosecutors allege Caughey assaulted a woman “while…
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Military Update: Lawmakers will have final say on combat jobs for women
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Six days before he closed out a 45-year Marine Corps career, Gen. John Kelly sounded an alarm. Kelly, who headed U.S. Southern Command before he retired on Jan. 14, was asked at his final Pentagon…
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Military Update: Lawmakers will have final say on combat jobs for women
Six days before he closed out a 45-year Marine Corps career, Gen. John Kelly sounded an alarm. Kelly, who headed U.S. Southern Command before he retired on Jan. 14, was asked at his final Pentagon press conference to comment on Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s Dec. 3 decision that every combat job be opened to women…
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Military Update: House eyes giving widows more relief from survivor benefit offset
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In a hopeful sign for 60,000 military widows and widowers who lost spouses to service-connected illnesses or injuries, a key House subcommittee is taking a fresh look at how Congress might provide heartier survivor benefit…
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Military Update: House eyes giving widows more relief from survivor benefit offset
In a hopeful sign for 60,000 military widows and widowers who lost spouses to service-connected illnesses or injuries, a key House subcommittee is taking a fresh look at how Congress might provide heartier survivor benefit packages. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., chairman of the House armed services subcommittee on military personnel, isn’t promising specific relief from…
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Colorado Springs area military events starting Dec. 13, 2015
THROUGH DEC. 31 Patriotic Quilts Exhibit – Created by veterans, many who have participated in the Fine Arts Center’s Military and the Arts: Creative Healing program, Hillside ARTSpace Galleries. Hillside Community Center, 925 S. Institute St.; csfineartscenter.org. Written Word and Visual Exhibition – “Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War: Ten Years of Fighting…
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Colorado Springs area military events starting Dec. 13, 2015
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save THROUGH DEC. 31 Patriotic Quilts Exhibit – Created by veterans, many who have participated in the Fine Arts Center’s Military and the Arts: Creative Healing program, Hillside ARTSpace Galleries. Hillside Community Center, 925 S. Institute…
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Military Update: VA expands ‘Choice,’ seeks money to consolidate outside care
An additional 160,000 veterans became eligible Dec. 1 to receive VA-paid medical care from civilian health care providers, the result of changes to the Choice Act of 2014 voted several months ago as Congress seeks to ease the flood of complaints still swirling around that poorly designed law. Meanwhile, VA officials have unveiled a costly,…