Category: Veterans
Ingram files Veterans Employment Bill
State Senator Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) and State Representative Clay Ingram (R-Pensacola) have filed legislation which allows private, non-public employers in Florida to give hiring preference…
Protect Our Defenders responds to AP story that ran in PNJ today
Today the Pensacola News Journal reported on an Associated Press report released yesterday that revealed in shocking detail the military’s flawed and insufficient handling of…
Bipartisan bill announced to deal with military sexual assaults
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-CA) held a press conference this morning to discuss her bipartisan Military Justice Improvement Act (MJIA). The legislation would remove the…
IN cover #3: Not Invisible Anymore, The Reality of Rape in the Military
Sexual assaults in the military and how poorly the military command has handled them were big national stories. We found that the rapes were also…
Viewpoint: Bring Fairness to Military’s Sexual Assault Process
SIDING WITH GILLIBRAND ON HOW TO BRING CLEAR FAIRNESS TO THE MILITARY’S SEXUAL ASSAULT PROCESS By Phyllis Hain In the U.S. Senate, two female Democratic…
Commissioner May comes to aid of parade organizers
The daily newspaper has an article on how the volunteers that have organized the Pensacola Veterans Day believe that they have been given the runaround…
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell research
Press Release: University of West Florida faculty members with the social work and anthropology departments are currently conducting research regarding life after “Don’t Ask, Don’t…
City of Pensacola slow to spend BP grant for Veterans Memorial Park
Through a public records request we got the accounting for the BP grant for the renovation of the Veterans Memorial Park on Bayfront Parkway. As…
Heroes Among Us
By Brandy Volovecky The Pensacola Marine Corps League J.R. Spears Detachment 066 continues its “Heroes Among Us†speaker series on June 28 at 6 p.m….
Sexual assaults in military are up, alarmingly
A survey released by the Pentagon yesterday estimates that sexual assaults in the military have increased over 36 percent since 2010–jumping from 19,000 people in…
Another sexual assault by Air Force officer
Stars and Stripes reports that the chief of the Air Force’s sexual assault prevention and response branch–Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski– was arrested by Arlington, Va….
Bipartisan bill in Congress will create independent office to investigate military rapes
Press Release: Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) reintroduce The STOP Act to end epidemic of sexual assault in…
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