A new veterans cemetery dedicated Nov. 3 in Mission, Texas, will provide a burial site for about 45,000 veterans and their families in South Texas. The Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery, located 230 miles south of San Antonio, will be available for burials starting in December, according to a Veterans Affairs new release.
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…