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@AP Pentagon Correspondent Contact me: Tcopp@AP.org
Mar 11, 2021 5 tweets 4 min read
NEW: @USAirforce review of @Andrews_JBA incursion in Feb. where trespasser accessed flight line & boarded a C-40 finds the guy was on base 5+ hours, visited the BX, got into PAX terminal & was only stopped b/c an alert airman thought his old knitted cap looked out of place @usairforce @Andrews_JBA The Security Forces airman at Virginia Gate who let the guy through was distracted by personal issues, the report found, and did none of the required security checks
Aug 3, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
Friday at 6:15 a.m. @ICEgov will begin the deportation of military wife Alejandra Juarez. She contacted me out of the blue months ago, after we wrote about the wife of a 7th Soecial Forces vet who got a last minute reprieve. It was her last hope. Other media followed (more) I live in DC, where we stand for veterans & military families in the 3rd inning at every #Nationals home game. It’s a stark contradiction to the vitriol I heard about Alejandra. It didn’t matter that her husband was an honorably serving Marine, or that he later deployed to #Iraq
Dec 29, 2017 5 tweets 3 min read
I've just been informed by the great .@LeoShane that I did, in fact, screw up Tweet-threading again. My apologies ... so here's everything from #SecDef in one thread: 1: #SecDef spent almost an hour w/ the Pentagon Press before new year. Stories TK, but some takeaways: 1.) Look for more general purpose forces to be trained/used for roles that have drained SF 2.) W/ transgender, he would not single out or issue specific welcome (more) 1/of many