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December 7, 2022
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The South Sound Military & Communities Partnership has released three RFPs to support OLDCC grant funding at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. The projects are a military installation resiliency review, a housing study and a military spouse employment review….

The Tennessee Military Department is expanding operations at the Tennessee National Guard’s Milan Volunteer Training Site, a former ammunition arsenal. “Milan has been a key location for training our soldiers and airmen since the 1960s,” Brig Gen. Warner Ross, Tennessee’s assistant adjutant general-Army said in a press release. “This expansion will greatly improve our Guardsmen’s ability to train and enhance our capability to respond to local, state and national emergencies.

National Guard photo by Spc. Everett Babbitt

December 7, 2022
Congress/DoD | In Our Communities | On Base

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