by Mark Wasserbauer | Sep 12, 2016 | National Guard, News
By: Phillip Swarts (Air Force Times), September 11, 2016 BALTIMORE — Of all the organizations that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, impacted, it may have affected the greatest change on the National Guard, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James said....
by Mark Wasserbauer | Sep 2, 2016 | National Guard
(By: Leo Shane III, Military Times, August 31, 2016 – Military Times) President Obama on Wednesday confirmed plans to cap the military pay raise at 1.6 percent next year, a move which lawmakers and military advocates have already warned will hurt military...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Sep 2, 2016 | Deployment, National Guard, Uncategorized
(By: Kevin Lilley, September 1, 2016 – Army Times) An Oklahoma Army National Guard unit takes center stage in “Citizen Soldier,” a documentary that tracks members of the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team during and after their 2011 deployment to...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Aug 29, 2016 | National Guard, News, Veterans
ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!! There is a Minnesota Army National Guard Soldier who served 29 Honorable years that is in dire need of a kidney transplant. The individuals that he has had tested haven’t worked out in his favor. Basically, the only...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Aug 29, 2016 | Taxes
Beginning in tax year 2016, taxpayers who receive certain types of military retirement pay (including pensions) may subtract that retirement pay from their taxable income. The tax exemption on military retirement pay is effective after December 31, 2015. You qualify...
