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Marine Cols. Amy and Curtis Ebitz are married and scheduled to take command of units in eastern North Carolina on Friday. Amy Ebitz is taking command of Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations East at Camp Lejeune, N.C. and Curtis Ebitz is taking command of nearby Marine Corps Air Station New River. <br>Photo provided by Ebitz family
Marine Cols. Amy and Curtis Ebitz are married and scheduled to take command of units in eastern North Carolina on Friday. Amy Ebitz is taking command of Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations East at Camp Lejeune, N.C. and Curtis Ebitz is taking command of nearby Marine Corps Air Station New River. <br>Photo provided by Ebitz family

Married Marine colonels to take on separate commands in North Carolina on the same day

This won’t be the first time Col. Amy Ebitz and Col. Curtis Ebitz — married since 2003 — commanded a unit at the same time. But it will be the first time that they will assume their leadership roles on the same day.

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Army’s newest brigade of combat advisers activated in Texas at Fort Hood

A third brigade tasked with training forces in countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan to provide better security in those nations was activated Tuesday during a ceremony at Fort Hood, Texas.

The guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville, seen here in the Philippine Sea on June 30, 2018, is named after a Civil War battle that some historians consider a major Confederate victory.<br>Tyra M. Campbell/U.S. Navy
The guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville, seen here in the Philippine Sea on June 30, 2018, is named after a Civil War battle that some historians consider a major Confederate victory.<br>Tyra M. Campbell/U.S. Navy

House aims to stop DOD from naming assets after Confederate symbols

The Army and Navy are now the only branches of the military with any assets named after symbols of the Confederacy, according to a September 2017 Congressional Research Service report.

Soldiers with the 769th Brigade Engineer Battalion conduct inspections and test high-water vehicles, flat bottom boats and boating equipment in preparation for the state activation in support of Tropical Storm Barry, July 10, 2019, at the Armed Forces Reserve Center, Baton Rouge, La.<br>Toby Valadie/Air National Guard
Soldiers with the 769th Brigade Engineer Battalion conduct inspections and test high-water vehicles, flat bottom boats and boating equipment in preparation for the state activation in support of Tropical Storm Barry, July 10, 2019, at the Armed Forces Reserve Center, Baton Rouge, La.<br>Toby Valadie/Air National Guard

Louisiana military bases brace for Barry as the National Guard steps up

With Tropical Storm Barry churning across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the military in Louisiana is preparing for its potential landfall this weekend as a hurricane.

Retired Army Capt. Ryan Kules pictured in Iraq in 2005. Kules now works with Wounded Warrior Project and has helped with new legislation to provide more government funds for disabled veterans to modify their homes. <br>Photo courtesy Ryan Kules
Retired Army Capt. Ryan Kules pictured in Iraq in 2005. Kules now works with Wounded Warrior Project and has helped with new legislation to provide more government funds for disabled veterans to modify their homes. <br>Photo courtesy Ryan Kules

Proposed law updates VA housing grants for disabled veterans

New legislation introduced last week in the House and Senate aims to make the VA’s Specially Adapted Housing grant available to qualified veterans every 10 years, instead of as a one-time opportunity.

Adm. Craig S. Faller, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, testifies at a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities hearing on Capitol Hill, July 9, 2019.<br>Joe Gromelski/Stars and Stripes
Adm. Craig S. Faller, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, testifies at a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities hearing on Capitol Hill, July 9, 2019.<br>Joe Gromelski/Stars and Stripes

SOUTHCOM’s Faller: No plans to send asylum seekers at U.S.-Mexico border to Cuba

The Department of Homeland Security is turning to the Defense Department for other options to house migrants, primarily from Central America, who are seeking asylum at the U.S. border with Mexico.