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Time of change brings new leaders to Colorado Springs, Pentagon
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Welcome to summer, when flowers bloom and the military brings in new bosses. At Fort Carson, several brigades have gotten new commanders in recent days, and its hospital has a pair of new leaders. One Fort Carson brigade even got a new boss while stationed overseas. The 3rd Brigade Combat team held a change of…
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Trump border wall plan threatens $77M in spending at Fort Carson
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The Trump administration’s border wall project could raid $77 million in construction money from Fort Carson, according to a Pentagon list released to Congress on Monday. The list, released to The Gazette by U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, puts more than $10 billion in military construction projects…
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Colorado, 15 other states sue Trump over emergency wall declaration (VIDEO)
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Colorado and 15 other states have filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s national-emergency declaration to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, setting up a showdown with the administration that could go to the Supreme Court and last through the 2020 election. The complaint, filed Monday in California’s Northern District, seeks judicial…
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Book tour for Bunny of the United States stops at Fort Carson
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FORT CARSON – One of the world’s most famous rabbits was absent at his own book signing Sunday at Fort Carson. But whether Marlon Bundo is around or not, what he does for the Trump administration continues to turn heads. His stardom rose after Vice President Mike Pence’s daughter, Charlotte, penned a children’s book called…
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State Sen. Owen Hill, Colorado Springs CrossFit athletes honor fallen soldier with custom workout
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Nearly 200 friends, family members and fellow CrossFit athletes gathered Saturday morning at the CrossFit SoCo gym in Colorado Springs to honor Chief Warrant Officer Kevin Burke with a grueling “hero” workout created in his memory. Burke, 28, and another soldier, 1st Lt. Clayton R. Cullen, 25, were killed in a helicopter crash on Jan. 20…
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Governor orders flags lowered Monday in Colorado to honor Green Beret Mihail Gohlin
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Gov. John Hickenlooper has ordered flags lowered to half-staff on all public buildings statewide on Monday to honor Sgt. 1st Class Mihail Golin, a Green Beret stationed at Fort Carson, who was killed while on patrol in Afghanistan. Flags should be lowered from sunrise to sunset. Golin, 34, a native of Riga, Latvia, was killed…
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Bill forging better military-community ties en route to guv’s desk
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Gov. John Hickenlooper soon could ink legislation to help combine overlapping services – like schools, restaurants, parks and shops- that are provided at military bases and by the local communities that host them. House Bill 1054, which was OK’d unanimously by the state Senate, was touted today in a press release by the Senate Democrats as “creating a closer…
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Brauchler promoted to colonel in Colorado Army National Guard
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District Attorney George Brauchler, an officer in the Colorado Army National Guard, was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel Sunday in a ceremony attended by military brass and the prosecutor’s family. “Some want to serve, but cannot. Some can serve, but choose not to. I have been blessed to have the ability to serve my…
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Noonan: Fort Carson soldiers in Zagan, Poland meet up with tragic European history
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The U.S. military is sending 3,500 American troops to Zagan, Poland, from Fort Carson to meet NATO commitments. The Polish defense minister called the American mission a “fulfillment of a dream Poles have had for decades,” according to the Chicago Tribune. The last time American military were in Zagan was from 1943-1945. Many U.S. airmen…
