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  • Army Plan: Hire 10K in 3 Days

    The U.S. Army announced it is hosting National Hiring Days June 30-July 2, 2020, a virtual recruiting event that it hopes will help them recruit 10,000 future soldiers in just three days. The Depot military blogger Steve Alvarez was the first to talk to the commanding general about the program.
  • Revisiting the National Guard’s Lineage Part I

    The National Guard claims that English colonial militias in Massachusetts were the first to muster in what would become the U.S., ignoring Spanish colonial militias which mustered more than 70 years before the Anglo-Saxon British militias. Did race or ethnicity influence that historical designation? You be the judge.
  • The Army After 245 Years

    The U.S. Army celebrates its 245th birthday this Sunday, June 14, 2020. The Army was created more than a year before the Declaration of Independence and its first major task was to fight, and win, an eight-year war for independence from Great Britain. It is the largest and oldest active military force in the United States and it is considered the nation’s first national institution.
  • Guard: Civil Unrest Hardest Mission

    For the first time in its history, the National Guard has a record 66,722 troops engaged in domestic operations at the direction of governors ac...
  • Uncle Sam is Hiring College Grads

    Recent college grads are facing the worst job market since the Great Depression forcing many of them to rethink their plans. But there is a bright side. Uncle Sam is hiring and he's looking for officers.
  • Top 5 Things To Do When You Visit a Military Recruiter

    In the coming weeks, about 3.5 million teenagers nationwide will complete their high school education and some of those young men and women will consider the military as a career option. I enlisted immediately after high school. I never planned to make the military a career, but 24 years later, I retired from it. Naturally I have some opinions on the subject. If you are thinking about enlisting in the military, here are five things you must do when you see a military recruiter.
  • Dear Class of 2020

    Class of 2020, shut off your phones, turn everything off and listen to yourself for a few minutes. Listen to your soul. It is telling you where to go, who to be, what to do. If you can’t hear it, go to places that will help you hear it. Remove the noise.
  • Adopting a Veteran

    In 2000, President Bill Clinton signed H.R. 5314 into law to help protect military working dogs from needless euthanasia. Here's why you should adopt a military working dog.
  • How to Replace Lost Military Medals

    Here are the facts about requesting replacement medals for veterans or replacement war service medals from the U.S. government.
  • The Stolen Valor Pandemic

    What is stolen valor? The definition of stolen valor is when a person claims they have served in the military, or they embellish their rank or fraudulently claim that they were presented an award for valor. In order for actions to qualify as illicit, a person must have the intent to gain money, property or some other tangible benefit by convincing others that he or she received the award.