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Federal Tipoffs Involving Utah Newsletter for Sunday March 17, 2024 ( 3 items )  

Hill AFB: Upcoming Local Combat Exercise to Test 388th Fighter Wing Readiness Capabilities
HILL AFB, Utah, March 14 -- The U.S. Air Force Hill Air Force Base (75th Air Base Wing) issued the following news: By Micah Garbarino, 388th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Airmen from the 388th Fighter Wing will test their agile combat employment and readiness capabilities during an exercise here later this month. The exercise, which has been in the planning stages for months, will mirror similar off-station exercises, like Agile Flag and Bamboo Eagle, but will take place at Hill AFB and airfiel  more

Justice Department Finds Utah Prison System Discriminated Against Incarcerated Individual Based on Gender Dysphoria
WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: The Justice Department today announced its finding that the Utah Department of Corrections (UDOC) violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by discriminating against an incarcerated transgender woman on the basis of her disability, gender dysphoria. The department's investigation found that UDOC failed to provide the complainant (who identifies as female but was assigned male at   more

VA Researcher Named One of U.S.' Top Female Scientists
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 16 -- The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Research and Development issued the following news: By Rachel Warden, Rocky Mountain MIRECC for Suicide Prevention The VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention associate director has been named as one of the United States' Top Female Scientists for 2023 by Research.com. This is the second year in a row that Dr. Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd, Ph.D., made the list, w  more