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Veterans who need financial fiduciaries can lose their gun rights. Critics say that's unfair.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Sgt. Corey Briest (left) poses with his son Connor and wife Jenny, as Connor joins the South Dakota Army National Guard in Sioux Falls, March 11, 2022., Credit: South Dakota Army National Guard
Congress is considering whether to override a VA policy that says veterans who need financial fiduciaries may be reported to the FBI’s background c...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KPBS, WHRV, and KUT


  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 4
Lawyers are seeking clients for Camp Lejeune water claims, but veterans may be better off waiting
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Surrounded by veterans, family members, and others at an August 2022 ceremony, President Joe Biden signs legislation designed to compensate people who were exposed to toxic substances during their military service, including people who lived on Camp Lejeu, Credit: C-Span
Lawyers are aggressively advertising potential windfalls for people exposed to contaminated water at the base. But it's too soon to know how the cl...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KWMU St. Louis, KTEP, and KUT


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 5
10% of National Guardsmen are unvaccinated. Some states say they should be allowed to serve anyway.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Tucker Salls, a member of the Connecticut National Guard, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Bradley Air National Guard Base in East Granby, Connecticut, Jan. 2, 2021., Credit: Steven Tucker / U.S. Air National Guard
The Pentagon said unvaccinated guardsmen won't get paid and can't participate in federally-funded deployments, but some states are concerned that w...

Bought by KRPS, KPBS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, and KUT


  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 5
For the Ukrainian military, a long partnership with U.S. National Guard units is paying dividends
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing at Moffett Air National Guard Base in Sunnyvale, Cal. in September 2021. The visit was part of a decades-long partnership between the California National , Credit: Duane Ramos / California National Guard
The State Partnership Program has quietly become a powerful tool for diplomacy and modeling U.S. values around the world.

Bought by Texas Public Radio, WRFA-LP, KUT, and KMXT


  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
The VA wants to close and replace older hospitals. But there's opposition in some communities.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The Fort Meade, S.D. VA hospital, built in 1956, is among the facilities that would close under the VA restructuring plan. It would be replaced by a new hospital approximately 30 miles away in Rapid City., Credit: Department of Veterans Affairs
The VA wants to close and replace older hospitals. But there's opposition in some communities.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KUT, KPBS, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 5
Underfunded and understaffed, some state veterans homes are turning residents away
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Amanda Eldridge, a certified occupational therapist assistant, works with a veteran at the state-run St. James Veterans Home in St. James, Missouri., Credit: Brian Munoz / St. Louis Public Radio
Labor shortages exacerbated by the pandemic have left facilities around the country with empty beds, even though veterans are on waiting lists hopi...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KTEP, Texas Public Radio, KPBS, KRPS and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 6
The Pentagon wants to root out extremism in the military, but nobody knows how common it is
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin talks with Army Maj. Gen. William J. Walker of District of Columbia National Guard outside the U.S. Capitol Jan. 29., Credit: Erica Jaros / U.S. Army National Guard
Pentagon leaders were concerned about extremism in the military even before the Jan. 6 insurrection. But new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he...

Bought by Texas Public Radio, KPCC, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 3
Despite a reprieve from the Trump Administration, Stars And Stripes faces an uncertain future
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A soldier in Logar Province, Afghanistan reads about the capture of Osama Bin Laden in a 2011 issue of the Stars and Stripes., Credit: Christopher Hall / Georgia National Guard
The 159-year-old military newspaper, which is published by the Department of Defense, has been targeted for elimination by some Pentagon leaders.

Bought by WUSF, KPCC, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 3
Amid long domestic deployments, Guardsmen and Reservists push for equity in benefits
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Members of the California Army National Guard assemble emergency food kits at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. , Credit: Jason Sanchez / U.S. Air National Guard
Even as members of the Guard and Reserve are seeing longer and more frequent deployments, they don't always receive the same retirement, education,...

Bought by Colorado Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Civil Disobedience: Police Respecting Protesters Can, Does And Has Happened
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Civil Disobedience means maintaining civility- a new lesson from Peace activists protesting at a Naval Destroyer christening and the Police Who Ar...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2019
  • Length: 05:35
It's Not What You're Given, It's What You Do With What You Get: My Supermarket Monopoly Game and The Pentagon Budget
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: DoD Deputy Shanahan said the Pentagon didn't think they'd pass an independent audit and they didn't..., Credit: Susan Cook
Fifty-four cents of every federally appropriated dollar goes to the Defense Department budget. Exactly where, the Pentagon auditors find "impossibl...

  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 08:36
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: What's Wrong With the Many Chimneys, One Smokestack Approach to Legislating
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Elected representatives have taken a new approach to legislating. Only their own district or cell or voting area can receive information from there...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2018
  • Length: 01:25
After the War
From: War News Radio
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Examination of PTSD treatment and veterans' care after the Gulf War and in the present

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 2
Black Gold
From: War News Radio
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This week, War News Radio presents the second of a series of shows that will explore the big questions still unanswered about the situation in Iraq...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KGOU


  • Added: Apr 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
THE FINAL WOUND
From: Voices of Our World
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Our veterans: heroes yesterday, homeless today

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
Critical Strategic Thought
From: George Kenney
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Interview with Dr. Greg Foster of NDU

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 01:20:38
Joel Hefley Interview
From: KRCC-FM
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Interview with Southern Colorado Congressman Joel Hefley

  • Added: Aug 26, 2005
  • Length: 11:13