Two former employees of a private company that manages military family housing pleaded guilty to major fraud and conspiracy for lying to the Air Force about maintenance performed in on-base housing to receive $3.5 million in unearned financial incentives, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
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Airway Heights is experiencing growing pains. The Spokane suburb now has about 10-thousand residents, a growing economic base and new houses going up. But it also has a busy highway bisecting it and no real civic center.
It is still, in some ways, that place people drive through to get to Fairchild Air Force Base.
But Heather Trautman says it has also become a town where people come and plant roots. Trautman is the principal planner for the city of Airway Heights.
“More and more of this community sees themselves as a small town with all the wonderful aspects of being in a smaller community with parks, easy access to their daily needs, easy access to transportation in order to get to work,” she said.
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Deep-rooted racism, discrimination permeate U.S. military By KAT STAFFORD, JAMES LAPORTA, AARON MORRISON and HELEN WIEFFERING, Associated Press
Published: May 27, 2021, 2:45pm
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7 Photos In this Dec. 28, 2009 photo provided by Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Stephanie Davis, she holds a U.S. flag in the cargo area of a KC-135 airplane while flying over Pakistan/Afghanistan. For Davis, who grew up poor, the military was a path to the American dream, a realm where everyone would receive equal treatment. But many of her service colleagues, Davis says, saw her only as a Black woman. Or for the white resident colleagues who gave her the call sign of ABW - it was a joke, they insisted - an angry black woman, a classic racist trope. (Courtesy Stephanie Davis via AP)