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FILE - In this July 25, 2016 file photo, French president Francois Hollande reviews troops at the army base and command centre for France's anti-terror 'Vigipirate' plan, dubbed 'Operation Sentinelle', in Vincennes, outside Paris. France's government has approved Wednesday Oct. 12, 2016 a decree creating a National Guard to bolster security against extremist attacks across the country. The Guard, which is expected to reach 84,000 people by 2018, is a new, enhanced version of the existing reserve forces. (Ian Langsdon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

France creates National Guard to improve security

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

The first outer bands of rain from Hurricane Matthew pass over downtown Orlando, Fla., Thursday evening, Oct. 6, 2016. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Rescues and worry after Matthew inundates North Carolina

By MARTHA WAGGONER and ALLEN BREED - Associated Press

Gov. Nikki Haley announces that she plans to call for the evacuation of about 1 million people from South Carolina's coast as Hurricane Matthew threatens on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, at the South Carolina Emergency Management Division headquarters in Pine Ridge, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Gov. Nikki Haley has chaplain pray for South Carolina at Hurricane Matthew press conference

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Protesters surround a police vehicle in Charlotte, N.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. Authorities used tear gas to disperse protesters in an overnight demonstration that broke out Tuesday after Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot by an officer at an apartment complex. (Jeff Siner/The Charlotte Observer via AP)

Charlotte ends curfew imposed after black man shot by police

By Emery P. Dalesio, Tom Foreman Jr and Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

In this frame from video provided by WBTV, a police vehicle is damaged after protests broke out Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, in Charlotte, N.C., following a fatal shooting of a black man by police. (WBTV via AP)

The Latest: Demonstrators stay out past Charlotte curfew

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Inside the Beltway Weekly March 21, 2016

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

U.S. troops back Donald Trump as president, with Sen. Bernie Sanders in a close second place, says a new survey. Shown are paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Divisions Troop K. (US Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alex Licea)

Inside the Beltway: U.S. troops back Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Gov. Phil Bryant gives reporters an update on the cleanup efforts from last week's tornadoes outbreak in north Mississippi and a forecast on potential Mississippi River flooding and what officials are expecting, as Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol director Col. Donnell Berry, right, listens, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015 at the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Pearl, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Louisiana, Mississippi: Thousands of homes damaged in floods

By Cain Burdeau - Associated Press

Retired Lt. Gen. Clyde A. Vaughn, the Guard Recruiting Assistance Program founder who enthusiastically pushed the plan when he served as director of the Army National Guard, denies wrongdoing and calls the scandal "overblown." He received a letter of reprimand for failing to "conserve government resources." (Associated Press)

Army top brass skirt punishment in fraud probe as lower ranks take blame

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Army Maj. John Suprynowicz, a decorated Iraq War combatant, says investigators in a National Guard recruitment scandal have sullied his name and stopped his promotion to lieutenant colonel. (Photo courtesy of Army Maj. John Suprynowicz)

National Guard fraud claims taint recruiting assistants as top brass escapes accountability

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. Marines walk on the beach at Waimea Bay near Haleiwa, Hawaii, where two military helicopters crashed into the ocean about 2 miles offshore, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. The helicopters carrying 12 crew members collided off the Hawaiian island of Oahu during a nighttime training mission, and rescuers are searching a debris field in choppy waters Friday, military officials said. (Mariana Keller via AP Photo)

Search for 12 Marines from downed helicopters enters 3rd day

By AUDREY McAVOY and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press

Members of the National Guard board a truck at an armory staging area Sunday, May 3, 2015, in Baltimore. Baltimore's mayor has lifted a citywide curfew six days after riots were sparked over the death of a black man who suffered a severe spinal injury while in police custody. (AP Photo/David Goldman) ** FILE **

National Guard plans to activate cyber squads across 23 states

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

From left, Britton Shoellhorn, Christine Mauler, Hollie Shoellhorn, and Ryan Golden play video games in an upstairs loft at a new VFW that has formed in the Shoellhorn residence in Greenwood, In. To fill a need in the community, Hollie Shoellhorn has helped form a new VFW in Johnson County, focused on appealing to a younger generation as well as older veterans in the area. (Chris Williams/Daily Journal via AP)

Veterans of Foreign Wars seeks to serve younger veterans

By RYAN TRARES - Associated Press

California National Guard Chinook Fights Wildfires

California National Guard Chinook Fights Wildfires

Shots fired again at Camp Shelby, Miss.; same suspect fired at soldiers two days in a row

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

An FBI investigator investigates the scene of a shooting outside a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on July 17, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Governors arm National Guardsmen after deadly Chattanooga shooting

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

The Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is seen here on May 14, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Retired military officials indicted in bribery scheme

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 7, 2014 photo, Debbie Larsen views the graves of her sister Linda Sawatzke and nephew Rory Gavic at the St. Francis Catholic Cemetery near Buffalo, Minn. Gavic was a young, decorated military member who served his country overseas twice, who had earned praise and the respect of his peers, who had volunteered as a Big Brother. His suicide in 2009 devastated his family, especially his mother Linda Sawatzke who killed herself four years later with the same handgun. (Associated Press/The St. Cloud Times, Dave Schwarz) **FILE**

Suicides up among Army, Army National Guard

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Iraqi parliament speaker, Salim al-Jabouri, a Sunni, speaks about the Friday attack on the Musab bin Omair Mosque, which killed more than 60 people and escalated sectarian tensions, during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Al-Jabouri said an investigation is underway into the attack on the Sunni mosque in Imam Wais village, northeast of Baghdad. If the attack proves to have been carried out by Shiite militiamen it would deal a major blow to prime minister-designate Haider al-Abadi efforts to reach out to the country's Sunni minority, whose grievances are seen as fueling the Islamic State insurgency. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq eyes formation of National Guard to fight Islamic State

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Crews lower a piece of a Black Hawk helicopter onto a barge in the Santa Rosa Sound near Pritchard Point, Friday, March 13, 2015, in Navarre, Fla. The helicopter, which crashed in dense fog during a training mission, was carrying seven Marines based in North Carolina along with four National Guard soldiers from Louisiana. All were killed. (AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily News, Nick Tomecek)

Black Hawk pilots disoriented in fog, lost control: report

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