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For the past two-and-a-half years, the Massachusetts Army National Guard and local opponents have been locked in battle over whether a machine gun range should be built at Joint Base Cape Cod. We traveled with the Guard to their training range in Vermont to see and hear what the future may bring to the Cape.
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Few people outside of the military will sleep in an army barracks, pass through machine gun training, or stand within feet of one of the military's deadliest weapons as it's fired. In this audio journal, CAI reporter Eve Zuckoff shares the experience of traveling north to Camp Ethan Allen, in Jericho, Vermont, to get a closer look at the people, drills, and weaponry that could come to a proposed machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod.
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Take a photo tour of the machine gun range at Camp Ethan Allen, in Jericho, Vermont, where Massachusetts Army National Guard currently go to train on the big .50 caliber machine gun. The Guard wants to build a comparable range on Cape Cod.
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This hour, host Connor Cyrus speaks with author and journalist Jasper Craven about his new book Our Veterans.
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An environmental advocacy group decided to test the Winooski River for PFAS chemicals, and says it found elevated levels of the cancer-causing chemicals in a popular fishing hole and reservoir. But state environmental officials take issue with those results.
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A conversation with a veteran who served in the National Guard under "don't ask, don't tell."
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A new report details systemic problems within the Vermont National Guard. Plus, SunCommon requires vaccines, the drought remains, and the future of trees.
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A pervasive “good old boys” network, mismanagement of reports of sexual assaults, equal opportunity programs not in compliance with federal policies: those are some of the significant issues found in an investigation of the Vermont National Guard, which was released this week.
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The troops were expected to leave the Capitol on March 12, but U.S. Capitol Police last week requested an extension following reports of a potential security threat.
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After decades in development and hundreds of billions of dollars spent, the F-35 fighter jet has proven difficult to maintain, and its systems are plagued…