At a Pentagon ceremony, the Army Community Partnership Program honored partnerships in Arizona, California, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia. “The fence line has become the front line,” Alex Beehler, assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment, said, according to a DOD story. “And that clearly means the surrounding communities are very much integral to any Army installation, any military base, particularly the large ones.”…
Drinking water in Pennsylvania is not widely contaminated by PFAS, the state announced after a round of preliminary testing, The Morning Call reported. “PFAS chemicals were not detected in two-thirds of the sites sampled,” the news report said. “The remaining sites showed concentrations well below the federal health advisory level.”
Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler
Post-Leadership, McConnell Plans to Push for More Defense Funding
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell steps down from his Senate leadership role after the November elections, he’ll have at least two more years in the Senate. Now he’s signaled one of his priorities as a rank-and-file Senator is to increase defense funding,...