Sentences with phrase «adopting military units»

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Partners representing 15 Starbucks regional districts around the United States that are participating in Adopt a Unit — an emerging Starbucks program designed to build a bond between partners and the military communities they serve.

Adopt a Unit's mission extends from partnering with veteran service organizations to hosting spouse support groups like Military Mondays, which provides veterans with pro bono legal assistance related to housing, education, employment, disability claims and healthcare issues.

«The Adopt a Unit program solidifies to me that Starbucks genuinely supports and understands my way of life,» said Shannon Feltz, a military spouse who manages a Starbucks near Fort Campbell.

In addition to hosting job fairs at the base, where 12,000 soldiers are stationed, Starbucks conducts regular plant tours for service members, maintains an Adopt a Unit program and supports the annual Fisher House Golf Tournament, which generates funds to aid families of patients receiving care at military and Veterans Administration medical centers.

If adopted, the legislation would allow (1) using military force, even if Japan is not attacked, if another nation is attacked and the administration deems this situation a threat to Japan's survival; (2) sending SDF units anywhere in the world where the U.S. or other militaries are waging war and having them provide support in close proximity to combat zones, and (3) deploying the SDF alongside U.S. and other allied forces and authorizing them to fire their weapons ostensibly in defense of their military and other supplies.

During the 1930s the title M16 was adopted as a «flag of convenience» for SIS and was used extensively during World War II - it was one of 17 military intelligence units established by the British during the war.