A new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provision would protect the “political speech” of armed forces retirees.
Amid the ongoing battle between Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, the Senate Armed Services Committee has added a provision that would update the Uniform Code of Military Justice “to exempt certain types of speech by a retiree from being subject to punishment.”
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