Jon Santiago

Under the darkness of night, in the roiling high seas off the coast of Somalia, members of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team 3 began to climb aboard an unflagged ship that was carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen. As Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram began climbing the ladder onto the boat, he slipped, falling into...

The Army-Navy game is a sporting spectacle brimming passionately with patriotism and pageantry, and for the first time ever, it was played in Massachusetts. In the stands at Gillette Stadium on Saturday was the state’s first ever secretary of Veteran Services, a new cabinet-level position in the Healy administration: Jon Santiago. In the lead-up to the game, NBC10 Boston...

Ahead of this weekend’s Army-Navy game at Gillette Stadium, Massachusetts Veteran Services Sec. Jon Santiago talked about what the state can do to help address racial disparities in the federal system.