by ADC | Mar 17, 2022 | DCIP, Defense Communities National Summit, Infrastructure, OLDCC, On Base
The appropriations package signed into law this week provides a total of $90 million in the current fiscal year for the Defense Community Infrastructure Program (DCIP), which helps fund infrastructure needs that impact both installations and the communities around...
by ADC | Mar 17, 2022 | Defense Communities National Summit, Defense Community Champions, Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
It was a hot day at Edwards Air Force Base, California when Dr. David Smith visited an on-base high school to help with a science lab experiment and noticed the classroom’s emergency exit was blocked with soaking wet towels. He asked the teacher why. “She said, ‘Well,...
by ADC | Mar 16, 2022 | Defense Communities National Summit, Defense Community Champions, On Base
When service members with children pick their next duty station, “education is really the number one thing in terms of coming to Fort Leonard Wood,” says Dr. Brian Henry, superintendent of the Waynesville RVI School District in Missouri. “We need to offer attractive...
by ADC | Mar 15, 2022 | Defense Communities National Summit, Defense Community Champions, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
When James Burns was asked to join the Committee of 50, the military affairs arm of the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce, he figured he had two options. “You can get involved and be busy with it, or you can just show up at meetings and not do anything,” he says...
by ADC | Mar 14, 2022 | Defense Communities National Summit, Defense Community Champions, On Base
Frank Minosky spent about half of his 25-year Army career as a first sergeant or command sergeant major and regularly discharged soldiers for drug and alcohol use. “I bounced a lot of soldiers out of the military, because I was of the opinion at that point that good...
by ADC | Mar 11, 2022 | Defense Communities National Summit, Defense Community Champions, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
Dr. Ivan Allen is the driving force behind the Georgia Veterans Education Career Transition Resource (VECTR) Center, which provides wraparound services including training and education for veterans and their families as they transition from military service. “We’re...
by ADC | Mar 10, 2022 | COVID-19, Defense Communities National Summit, Defense Community Champions, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
Rear Admiral John Menoni admits he was in “a little bit of shock” in March 2020 when he first heard that sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt would be headed to Guam after testing positive for COVID-19, but then he “really just kind of immediately got after the...
by ADC | Mar 9, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, Defense Communities National Summit, On Base, Russia-Ukraine
Lawmakers are closer to passing an appropriations package to fund government for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1. The package, which combines all 12 annual spending bills, has a $1.5 trillion cost. It includes $782 billion for defense spending, a $42 billion – or...
by ADC | Mar 9, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Communities National Summit, Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro joined ADC Tuesday for a wide-ranging discussion with ADC President Bob Ross. Here are some highlights of his remarks on the Defense Communities National Summit mainstage: On Ukraine: “I pray that the crisis in Ukraine comes at some...