A 22-year-old member of the Oklahoma National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C. as part of President Trump’s crime-fighting campaign is now facing charges of his own after he was arrested for carrying an “unauthorized” firearm.  The Associated Press reports Spec. Jakob Noonan was arrested last Monday after a handgun was discovered during a traffic stop by U.S. Park Police.The U.S. Park Police said in an emailed statement that the officer observed an empty holster in the rear of the vehicle and asked if there was a firearm inside and Noonan confirmed there was. Noonan was…

The shrapnel hit Army Lt. Col. Arturo Lincón’s body like shattered glass. One chunk of metal lodged into the left side of his jaw. Another piece sliced through his salivary gland before bouncing off his jaw and piercing the back of his neck, severing an artery and embedding in a vertebra. Lincón was among dozens of U.S. soldiers injured in an Iranian drone strike on March 1. The attack on the second day of the U.S. war with Iran killed six troops who were providing logistical support of critical supplies at Port Shuaiba in Kuwait. Whether the military was properly…

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I don’t enjoy writing about shootings. I really don’t like it when people are killed, and a pile of others are injured. It gets especially true when they happen not that far from where I live. In this case, it happened in Vienna, GA (pronounced VY-inna, not VE-inna, for the record).Now, two people are dead, a mess of others are injured, and the authorities can’t even tell us how many of the injured were shot.Law enforcement officials are still working to determine just what happened when a chaotic homecoming party spanning a four-block radius of…

A congressional lawmaker has taken a step toward veterans, military service personnel and first responders achieving government-approved access to controversial peptide therapies. Not everyone is on board. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who is leaving Congress after this current term, recently introduced the Providing Evidence-based Peptide Therapies to Improve Delivery and Expanded Services for Veterans Act, or Peptides for Veterans Act, which would direct the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to officially start the research. “Our veterans sacrificed everything to protect our country. The least we can do is make sure they have access to groundbreaking treatments,” Mace said in a…