Jeremy Profitt

CENTCOM Statement on Recently Fallen, Missing U.S. Service Members TAMPA, Fla. — On July 17, two U.S. service members in Jordan were killed in action as U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks. Additionally, one service member is currently missing. Four American service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals. They have since been discharged. Other personnel who were evaluated for minor injuries have returned to duty. Out of respect for the families, CENTCOM will withhold additional information, including the identities of the fallen warriors, until 24 hours after the next of kin have been notified.

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The VA bill this Thursday needs serious changes. I will be signing the discharge petition to bring the Major Richard Star Act to the floor that will ensure it is voted on as a stand alone bill. All our veterans who served should be fully eligible for disability pay and we should not be offsetting some disabilities to pay for others. We need to find a way where all our veterans are fully taken care of.

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Imagine waking up in the greatest country in human history, where people died for your freedom, and choosing grievance over gratitude. Which side are you on? The one that loves America and honors those who fought for it, or the one that hates it?

You work hard for your paycheck. Why do Democrats act like it belongs to them?

FOLLOW-UP — clarifying yesterday's post on the Bost Amendment, because precision matters and I owe you the exact receipts, not just my word for it. Here is the mechanism, page and line, so nobody has to take this on faith. Page 1, lines 2–5: the amendment strikes and replaces ONLY paragraph (2) of Section 1414(b). Paragraph (1) — the existing "career retiree" rule already sitting in the U.S. Code — is never touched. Never struck. Never reprinted. It just... stays. Exactly as written. Forever, apparently. Current, UNTOUCHED (b)(1): a Chapter 61 retiree with 20+ years under Section 1405, OR at least 20 years under Section 12732, gets routed to the old partial-offset formula. NEW (2)(C), pages 2–3: a combat-related Chapter 61 retiree with LESS than 20 years under Section 1405, OR less than 20 years under Sections 12732/12733, gets the new and far better "lesser of" formula — full Chapter 61 pay or a 20-year-equivalent calculation, plus full VA comp. Read those two side by side. Same two yardsticks. Opposite tests. Both written with "OR." A reservist who holds a 20-year letter (20+ good years under 12732) but has under 20 active-equivalent years under 1405 — meaning nearly every Reserve and Guard Chapter 61 combat retiree alive — satisfies BOTH conditions at the exact same moment. He is a "career retiree" through one door and an "under-20 retiree" through the other. Page 4, lines 3–6, the only place "paragraph (1)" gets mentioned again, tells you what happens if you qualify for NEITHER. It says nothing — not one word — about what happens when you qualify for BOTH. Here is the part I actually want to say plainly: this is not a hostile bill. The (2)(C) language is precisely, exactly, word-for-word what combat-wounded Reserve and Guard retirees needed. Someone in that room understood the problem well enough to write the correct fix. They just stopped revising one paragraph too early. They opened the wound, found the bleeder, started the repair — and walked out before tying off the last vessel. What is next, a bill that finally ends the wounded veteran tax for tens of thousands of combat retirees... wait, I was just told it might still leave some of them bleeding out on a technicality nobody bothered to close. The fix remains one sentence: "Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a member who meets the criteria of paragraph (2) shall be paid under paragraph (2)." That is it. That is the whole ask. Drop it in before this clears conference and the defect disappears entirely.