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The State Department has greenlighted an emergency $138 million in foreign military sales for Ukraine to provide critical repairs and spare parts for Kyiv's Hawk missile systems. The U.S. announced the move Tuesday saying that Ukraine has an urgent need for the maintenance support to keep the missile system running. An Alabama based company will to be put to work on the delivery.
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The Pentagon says its controversial military travel policy for reproductive health care was used just 12 times from June to December last year. The policy prompted a political blockade on military promotions by Alabama U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville.
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The military confirms as many as 121 unmarked graves in a former Black cemetery have been discovered at a U.S. Air Force base in Florida. Alabama Public Radio uncovered similar results in its national award-winning investigation “No Stone Unturned.”
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Defense Secretary, and Mobile native, Lloyd Austin says he's eager to return to the Pentagon after being released from a hospital where he was treated for complications from surgery for prostate cancer he kept secret from President Joe Biden. Austin was released Monday and is expected to work from home as he recovers.
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Both the White House and Pentagon said they would look into why President Joe Biden and other top officials weren't informed for days that Defense Secretary, and Mobile native, Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized. A Pentagon spokesman pointed to one reason: A key staffer was out sick with the flu.
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This Congress started with showy bluster, a bitter 15-round, multi-day spectacle to elect a House speaker, a Republican who vowed to "never quit," and then did just that. The U.S. Senate approved the last military promotions blockaded by Alabama U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville, ending his months long campaign over the Pentagon’s travel policy related to abortion.
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The Senate unanimously confirmed eleven top-ranking military officers, ending a months-long blockade staged by a single Republican, Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
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The U.S. House has passed a defense policy bill that authorizes the biggest pay raise for troops in more than two decades. Supporters overcame objections from some conservatives concerned it didn't do enough on cultural issues, such as restricting the Pentagon's diversity initiatives and gender-affirming health care for transgender service members. The measure comes despite the just ended blockade by Alabama. U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville.
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The Senate in a single stroke approved over four hundred military promotions after Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthslong blockade of nominations over his opposition to a Pentagon abortion policy. APR News focused on his retreat in a preview feature on "All Things Considered" ahead of today’s GOP Presidential Primary Debate in Tuscaloosa.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville said that he's ending his blockade of hundreds of military promotions, following heavy criticism from many of his colleagues about the toll it was taking on military families and clearing the way for hundreds of nominations to be approved soon. Alabama Public Radio focused on Tuberville retreat during its preview feature for NPR’s All Things Considered on the GOP Debate at the University of Alabama.