Richard Sisk

3 days ago | military.com | Richard Sisk

Under pressure from London, British Maj. Gen. Thomas Gage put quill to paper 250 years ago last Saturday in issuing the disastrous order for a raid on Concord in the Province of Massachusetts Bay that would ignite a revolution, lose Britain a colony, and bring forth a loosely united new nation called America.

1 week ago | military.com | Richard Sisk

More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the era for the desegregation of the military in preparation for the wars in Europe and Asia that would soon engulf the U.S., but a generally sympathetic FDR said the nation was just not ready to see "Negro" troops fighting alongside whites. The remarkable exchanges were caught on recording devices Roosevelt had secretly installed in the basement under the Oval Office.

2 weeks ago | military.com | Richard Sisk

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2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Richard Sisk

A California appeals court judge expressed concern Tuesday that a ruling ordering the Department of Veterans Affairs to build housing for homeless veterans on the grounds of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center would be reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

2 weeks ago | military.com | Richard Sisk

The labor market flexed its enduring strength in the latest jobs report Friday as the economy added 228,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans dropped from 4.3% to 3.1% despite stock market cratering and federal workforce cutbacks. President Donald Trump quickly seized on the positives in the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that the 228,000 hirings in March blew past Wall Street predictions of job growth in the range of 130,000 to 140,000.