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As the nation recognizes veterans this month, the North Carolina Forest Service is offering a 20 percent discount on tree-seedling orders placed throughout November by active military, honorably discharged veterans, and retired service members.
Published: Friday, November 28th, 2025 @ 4:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The military life is regimented. You are told what to do and when to do it. You are instructed where to live and for how long.
Published: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 3:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Army base Fort Bragg in North Carolina is being renamed to Fort Liberty in accordance with the Biden Defense Department’s push to scrub the military of Confederate memorabilia, garnering harsh pushback from some veterans.
Published: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 8:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kody H. Kinsley and NC Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Secretary LtGen Walter Gaskin toured the Creative Academy Early Learning Center in Goldsboro to highlight the (MCCYN)-PLUS
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 11:21 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Chris Pratt and other cast members from “The Terminal List” took the time Friday to thank those who served in the military in honor of Veterans Day.
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2022 @ 6:11 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The state of Florida, under the leadership of GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, is going out of its way to help military veterans with a program titled the Military Veterans Certification Pathway that would permit a four-year veteran with a minimum 2.5 GPA in college to teach in classrooms
Published: Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 @ 11:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 4:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Launched in 2015, NCServes is the nation’s first statewide coordinated network of public, private, and non-profit organizations working together to connect military service members, veterans, and military families
Published: Monday, July 19th, 2021 @ 12:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed May as Military Appreciation Month to honor the contributions and sacrifices North Carolina’s servicemembers, veterans and their families have made for North Carolina and the nation.
Published: Sunday, May 23rd, 2021 @ 6:36 pm
By: Governor's Office
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House Bill 370, No Veteran Left Behind Act, on Tuesday, April 13, cleared the House Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee.
Published: Friday, April 16th, 2021 @ 9:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the NC House Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee gave unanimous approval to the No Veteran Left Behind Act (HB 370)
Published: Thursday, April 15th, 2021 @ 8:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon reports on new legislation designed to protect military veterans’ basic rights.
Published: Sunday, February 28th, 2021 @ 8:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper has named retired Lieutenant General Walter Gaskin to lead the North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 @ 10:33 pm
By: Governor's Office
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As this Veterans Day comes upon us it will be probably the least celebrated of all prior celebrations to honor all Veterans serving or not.
Published: Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 @ 12:12 pm
By: George H. Schryer
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Entrance fees for the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and standard amenity recreation fees for the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Reclamation sites will be waived for veterans and Gold Star Families.
Published: Monday, November 9th, 2020 @ 10:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Former White House national security adviser John Bolton stated in his memoir that President Trump canceled a visit to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris over weather, undercutting a key claim in a recent story from The Atlantic that the president scrapped the trip because of the “losers” and
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2020 @ 6:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The House on Thursday passed by voice vote an annually required measure to increase cost-of-living adjustments tied to veterans benefits in parity with the COLA approved by the Social Security Administration.
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2020 @ 12:18 am
By: George H. Schryer
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Military spouses and veterans could find it easier to get jobs in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2020 @ 1:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Unemployment, homelessness, depression, and a host of mental health issues are on the rise for North Carolina’s military veterans.
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2020 @ 8:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A group of military veterans out of Mount Airy, N.C., made a video to bestow a funeral honor guard upon departed service members who are unable to receive one due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2020 @ 5:57 pm
By: George Schryer
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In one week, East Carolina University inducted two members into the Distinguished Military Service Society, hosted its annual Military Appreciation Day football game and was named one of the best universities in the country for veterans.
Published: Wednesday, November 6th, 2019 @ 7:32 pm
By: ECU News Services
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House Majority Leader John Bell (R-Wayne), Sen. Don Davis (D-Pitt), Rep. Chris Humphrey (R-Lenoir) and Sen. Jim Perry (R-Lenoir) praised House passage of the NC Military and Veteran Act of 2019 (SB 230).
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 5:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Military veterans who attended a recent private event with socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stormed out of the meeting after Ocasio-Cortez reportedly bashed U.S. foreign policy and attacked Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 3:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Today, Governor Cooper hosted military veterans and their families at the Executive Residence for a reception to commemorate the sacrifices military veterans have made for North Carolina and the country
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2018 @ 11:15 pm
By: Governor's Office
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In advance of the Veterans Day, Governor Roy Cooper has declared November Military Family Appreciation Month and November 5 - 9, 2018 to be Veterans Small Business Week.
Published: Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 @ 3:16 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today, the President rescinded his previous memorandum on transgender service in the military in order to allow Secretary Mattis to implement a new policy developed through extensive study by senior uniformed and civilian leaders, including combat veterans
Published: Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 @ 12:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday, bipartisan legislation co-introduced by U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) that streamlines and eases the burden on the process whereby active-duty military, reservists and veterans apply for their commercial driver's license was signed into law
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 @ 6:20 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) joined Representatives Jackie Speier (CA-14) and Mark Takano (CA-41) and reintroduced the bipartisan Military and Veterans Education Protection Act
Published: Saturday, December 16th, 2017 @ 5:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Operation Gratitude takes over the Veteran's Day Freeboot Friday. The November 10th event will welcome Greenville musicians, Built for Comfort, to close out the last event of Freeboot's 18th season
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 @ 6:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As part of Military Family Appreciation Month and leading up to the Veterans Day holiday, Governor Roy Cooper declared November 6-10, 2017 Employ a Veteran Week in North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, November 7th, 2017 @ 4:09 am
By: Governor's Office
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This week, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Cotton (R-AK) introduced the Veteran Apprenticeship and Labor Opportunity Reform (VALOR) Act, legislation that would increase access to apprenticeship-training programs for military veterans
Published: Friday, October 6th, 2017 @ 5:59 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Yesterday, bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) that streamlines and eases the burden on the process whereby active-duty military, reservists and veterans apply for their commercial driver's license passed out of the S
Published: Friday, September 15th, 2017 @ 10:11 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Successfully transitioning from the military to the university is the focus of a new grant-funded program for student veterans at East Carolina University
Published: Monday, September 11th, 2017 @ 3:03 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Today, Governor Cooper's office and Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Secretary Larry Hall responded to the legislature's decision not to provide funding for the Eastern Carolina Veterans' Cemetery
Published: Wednesday, June 28th, 2017 @ 4:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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More than 100,000 military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have signed up for the Department of Veterans Affairs burn pit exposure registry
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 @ 3:07 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Gary Peters (D-MI) led a bipartisan group of their colleagues in a letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies.
Published: Thursday, May 4th, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Gov. Roy Cooper's pick to head North Carolina’s Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, former state Rep. Larry Hall, received unanimous approval last week from the Senate committee tasked to confirm him
Published: Tuesday, March 7th, 2017 @ 1:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After weeks of ducking constitutionally mandated Senate confirmation hearings, a contrite Larry Hall appeared under subpoena before the Commerce and Insurance Committee on Thursday, answered questions at length, and was approved unanimously for recommendation to the full Senate for confirmation as s
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 4:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressmen Walter B. Jones (R-NC) and Ron Kind (D-WI) introduced the bipartisan Honoring Our Heroes Act, a bill that would allow family members within four generations of a veteran to apply for replacement medals, when all next of kin have passed away
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 @ 11:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory joined members of the North Carolina National Guard, military and veterans for the Carolinas Freedom Foundation Breakfast this morning...
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 1:34 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) released the following statement after Senate Democrats once again filibustered the Military Construction-Veterans Affairs-Zika Appropriations Bill, which would provide $1.1 billion to combat the Zika virus and support efforts to develop a vaccine
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2016 @ 11:17 am
By: Thom Tillis
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