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Anonymous ID: bae5a4 Jan. 13, 2019, 2:12 p.m. No.4742373   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Veterans Group Donates Money to Help Feed Unpaid Coast Guard Members

 

MILLBURY, Massachusetts – They aren't being paid, but members of the U.S. Coast Guard are still going out on rescue missions, and keeping U.S. ports and shores safe.

 

So the Massachusetts Veterans of Foreign Wars is stepping up to help, giving a $2,500 check Saturday to the Massachusetts Military Support Foundation to help feed more than 2,000 military families a week.

 

"Those guys could be jumping in the freezing cold water right now, and they're not being paid to rescue someone," said Donald Cox, MMSF president, after the check presentation in Millbury. "It's just sad to see. These kids are just pawns in this whole thing."

 

The partial government shutdown entered its 22nd day on Saturday, becoming the longest federal closure in history, as President Donald J. Trump and Congress tussle over funding for a proposed border wall.

 

About 800,000 workers missed paychecks on Friday, with many receiving blank pay statements – and many posting these on social media – adding urgency for a resolution to the shutdown.

 

Some of those workers are in, or work for, the Coast Guard and are stationed in Massachusetts. The Coast Guard is the only branch of the armed services that does not get paid during the shutdown. This is also the second paycheck missed for civilian employees of the Coast Guard, Mr. Cox said.

 

"This is a major hardship," said VFW Massachusetts State Commander Keith Jackson. "We all need to take a step forward to take care of our Coast Guard."

 

To help ease the hardship, the Military Support Foundation opened an "empowerment center" at Joint Base Cape Cod on Dec. 26. The center offers food, groceries and baby supplies. On Wednesday, the support foundation opened a second facility in Boston, delivering 80,000 pounds of food, Mr. Cox reported.

 

He said the two centers are serving roughly 2,200 Coast Guard families a week, and he doesn't see an end in sight.

 

This is the second donation that the VFW Massachusetts has made to the Military Support Foundation having delivered $1,000 worth of grocery gift cards on Dec. 30, Mr. Jackson said.

 

"I'd like to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you," Mr. Cox told members of the VFW. "This government shutdown has turned the lives of the 2,200 families that we've serviced in the last week upside down."

 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/01/13/veterans-group-donates-money-help-feed-unpaid-coast-guard-members.html

Anonymous ID: bae5a4 Jan. 13, 2019, 2:36 p.m. No.4742708   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2731 >>2776 >>2938 >>3035

US-backed Syrian Force Declares ISIS Is in ‘Final Moments’

 

The fight against the ISIS terrorist group has reached its final stage.

 

An official with the U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) said ISIS fighters are “living their final moments” in the last enclave that they hold near the Iraqi border. SDF forces had engaged with fighters at the enclave.

 

Mustafa Bali, who is in charge of the SDF media office, said on Jan. 13 their forces had ramped up attacks in the last two days and taken control of the area between the ISIS enclave and Iraqi border, cutting off an escape route.

 

Bali said ISIS fighters “realize that this battle is the battle to eliminate them.”

 

Meanwhile, coalition spokesman Colonel Sean Ryan said, “The SDF is making great progress and continues to liberate more territory once held by ISIS but the fight continues.”

 

In December, President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria, citing the defeat of ISIS and how troops were no longer needed there. A Department of Defense spokesman confirmed on Jan. 11. the coalition had started the withdrawal process.

 

“We will be leaving at a proper pace while at the same time continuing to fight ISIS and doing all else that is prudent and necessary!” Trump said in a Twitter post on Jan. 7.

 

A victory over the terrorists in the enclave would essentially take down the group’s territorial foothold on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.

 

With the help of the U.S.-led coalition the SDF, a group of militias led by the Kurdish YPG, ISIS has been driven out of northern and eastern Syria over the past four years. A November report from the Department of Defense found ISIS has lost all territories it once held in Iraq and controls only 1 percent of the territory it once had in Syria.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-backed-syrian-force-declares-isis-is-in-final-moments_2765325.html

Anonymous ID: bae5a4 Jan. 13, 2019, 2:52 p.m. No.4742882   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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