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As Congress repeatedly flirts with government shutdowns, military families face crisis fatigue
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks with troops at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on Feb 23, 2024. Since Johnson became Speaker in October, Congress has dealt with multiple government shutdown threats as the House has struggled to pass long-term, Credit: Seth Watson / U.S. Air Force
Each threatened shutdown can lead to stress in the military community about missing paychecks and losing access to federal programs.

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 4
After decades of desert wars, the Navy and Marines are preparing for bigger global fights
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Troops from Marine Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina monitor a refueling operation during "Large Scale Exercise 2023." The exercise involved 25,000 Navy sailors and Marines and dozens of ships across 22 time zones., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
A worldwide joint training exercise simulated a major battle with adversaries like China and Russia.

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 4
Military spouses say the GOP hold on service member promotions has put families' lives on hold, too
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: At an August 14 ceremony, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin congratulates Admiral Lisa Franchetti, who has been nominated to be the next Chief of Naval Operations. Franchetti is first woman to be nominated as a service chief. but will serve in an acting r, Credit: Chad J. McNeeley / U.S. Department of Defense
Since February, Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville has held up military nominations and promotions to pressure the Biden administration to re...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 5
Middle East Expert Steven Simon's GRAND DELUSION: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Steven Simon, author of seven books, is currently a Fellow at MIT (Mass. Inst. Tech.) after spending nearly 40 years specializing in the Middle Eas...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 10:27
A new Pentagon policy helps troops who travel to receive abortions. Republicans want to block it.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Air Force Major Sharon Arana testified before a U.S. House committee in July 2022 about the challenged she faced as she sought an abortion in 2009 when she was stationed in Alabama. She is concerned that experiences like hers are becoming more common sinc, Credit: C-Span
The Pentagon policy reimburses service members for travel expenses and offers up to 21 days of leave for abortions and fertility treatment.

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 3
Under pressure from Congress, some states are making it easier for overseas troops to vote
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Master Sgt. Blayne Ralston, right, speaks with Tracey Hall, installation voting program manager, and Michael Glover, Airman and Family Readiness Center causality assistance representative, during an Armed Forces Voting Week event at Hanscom Air Force Base, Credit: Todd Maki / U.S. Air Force
States are mailing absentee ballots sooner and - in a few places - letting troops cast ballots online. Still, voter turnout among military personne...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:43
  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 5
Jason Kander's INVISIBLE STORM. A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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With INVISIBLE STORM Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in his darkest moments of PTSD. After Afghanistan, his day job was politic...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 10:01
The Supreme Court will decide if Guardsmen and reservists can sue states for employment violations
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Former Texas State Trooper LeRoy Torres reviews legal paperwork with his wife Rosie in their Robstown, Texas home in 2019. Torres resigned from his job after returning home from Iraq in 2008. He said the state refused to make job accommodations for a disa, Credit: Carson Frame / American Homefront
When National Guard members and reservists deploy, a federal law is supposed to preserve their civilian jobs and benefits. But in some states, gove...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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...

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  • 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.

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  • 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,...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Far away from Washington, impeachment means little to U.S. troops providing military aid to Ukraine
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: American soldiers from the Wisconsin National Guard play blues songs for a contingent of soldiers from Poland and Lithuania who are also helping train Ukraine's military., Credit: Levi Bridges / American Homefront
While the impeachment case centers on President Trump's handling of military aid to Ukraine, U.S. troops deployed in Ukraine say their mission hasn...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 6
Booktalk: Retired Naval Aviator Dan Pedersen’s “TOPGUN. An American Story”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Dan Pedersen, author of, TOPGUN. An American Story, was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School. Also known as the...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
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
Booktalk: Historian Hampton Sides discusses his sixth book, “On Desperate Ground”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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New Mexico-based Hampton Sides’ newest book is "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle.” Based on ne...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
After generations of grief and frustration, families of Korean War MIAs are more optimistic
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: U.S. Defense Department forensic anthropologists in Wonsan, North Korea examine the contents of boxes containing the possible remains of U.S. MIAs July 27, 2018., Credit: David Marshall / U.S. Army
Families hope advances in DNA technology and thawing U.S./North Korean relations will help the government recover and identify long-missing remains...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 4
In the Department of Poetic Justice: All They Want Is Their Bonus Checks
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
From the Great American Wrongbook, in the Department of Poetic Justice, a musical tribute to the Maine Legislature's recent corporate welfare givin...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:56
The Indifference Diaries: The Opposite of Love is Indifference: How to be a Good Neighbor and Warship Builder
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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As Bath Iron Works ships become more sophisticated in their use of sonar devices, we recall the 40 million dollar Maine Legislature approved tax br...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2018
  • Length: 09:56