by Mark Wasserbauer | Oct 15, 2015 | Deployment, National Guard
By Dan Burdett on Oct 8, 2015 at 11:32 p.m. WILLMAR — A crowd in the hundreds gathered Thursday in the gymnasium at Willmar Senior High School to say farewell to the 159 members of the Minnesota National Guard 682nd Engineering Battalion who are preparing for a...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Oct 8, 2015 | Legislative
A new Call-To-Action message was recently released by EANGUS supporting S. 2137, the Military Family Stability Act, a bill that provides flexibility to military members and their families during times of deployment and relocation. In an era of persistent military...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Oct 8, 2015 | Legislative
By Joe Gould 4:10 p.m. EDT October 7, 2015 WASHINGTON — The US Senate voted Wednesday to approve the 2016 defense policy bill, but President Obama is expected to veto it because of language supporting a workaround that funds defense using the overseas contingency...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Oct 8, 2015 | Legislative, National Guard, Technician
Congress passed a 3-month Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the Federal Government through December. Between now and the deadline, Speaker Boehner will step down as Speaker of the House of Representatives and a new Speaker (likely Representative Kevin McCarthy R-CA)...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Sep 21, 2015 | Legislative
Last Friday, Congressman John Kline introduced H.R. 3549 – VA Billing Accountability Act. H.R. 3549 provides the Secretary of the VA the authority to waive the requirement a veteran make a co-payment if a VA error is the cause of a delay in notifying a veteran of a...
