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On February 18, 2025, CAL EANGUS President Josh J. Baker provided testimony before California Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration regarding the Military Retirement Exclusion Trailer Bill Language (TBL). The proposed measure would exempt military...
The Department of the Air Force is pushing forward a legislative proposal (LP480) in the Senate which seeks to forcibly transfer Air National Guard units performing space missions into the U.S. Space Force without the consent of the respective governors. We made...
By Gerald Dean, San Francisco Chronicle Sep 24, 2024 Another legislative session has come and gone in Sacramento, and once again California has thumbed its nose at veterans and shot itself in the foot. AB46, introduced last year by Assembly Member James Ramos, D-San...
Senate fiscal panel makes military retirees’ tax exemptions a two-year bill; Ramos vows to find funding mechanism Measure has already made it further than previous efforts SACRAMENTO—Assemblymember James C. Ramos (D-San Bernardino) today issued the following statement...
San Diego Union Tribune Brandon J. Archuleta Archuleta, Ph.D., is an adjunct senior fellow for military, veterans and society at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C., and author of “Twenty Years of Service: The Politics of Military Pension Policy...
Below is the latest Legislative Report as prepared for the California State Commanders Veterans Council. The report is completed by Reeb Government Relations as commissioned by the CSCVC. CAL-EANGUS is a member of the CSCVC and provides consultation on bills...
BY NICK WILSON An Iwo Jima memorial buried for decades and discovered by a Camp San Luis Obispo employee in 2010 has been fully restored by the San Luis Obispo County chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The five-sided, raised red star is about 10 to...
Congress overwhelmingly overrode President Donald Trump’s veto of the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, paving the way for the 3% pay raise, additional benefits and more for the National Guard. Senators voted 81 to 13, well above the needed two-thirds...
The California National Guard received vaccinations and began dispersing to its frontline troops Dec. 22, 2020. Cal Guard nurses, medical personnel and wildfire support were the first to be inoculated with the recently-distributed medicine. “The vaccine is safe and...
The Senate and the House have both passed their respective versions of the Fiscal 2021 NDAA, both by veto-proof majorities. The two will now go to conference to work out the differences. Included in the bills are: 3% pay raise for all One service record (DD 214) for...
