The Department of Health and Human Services has asked DOD if it can house unaccompanied minors crossing the border from Mexico at two Texas installations, Joint Base San Antonio and Fort Bliss, Military Times reports….
An Arizona man is accused of holding 11 unarmed National Guard troops at gunpoint after forcing their unmarked vans off the road as they transported COVID-19 vaccine doses to Texas, AP reports. The man told police he believed the troops were involved in a kidnapping….
Sydney Barber is the first Black female brigade commander in the history of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Fox News reports. “My role and my purpose here on this earth is to put more into the world than I take out,” she said in a Navy video….
The Coast Guard will rename a training wing at Coast Guard Training Center Petaluma, Calif., after golf legend Arnold Palmer, Sea Power Magazine reports. “My dad said that the U.S. Coast Guard ‘made [him] a better person for the world,’” said Amy Palmer Saunders, chair of the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation.
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