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		<title>The Nightmare Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Army announced late Tuesday afternoon that it has suspended the commanding general of the post that trains half its troops and all its drill sergeants due to allegations of  “adultery and a physical altercation.” The suspension was the latest in a string of suspected sex-related cases that has rocked the military over the past three weeks and led to calls from Congress for a major overhaul in how the Pentagon deals with sexual assault within its ranks. “Brigadier General Bryan T. Roberts was suspended today of his duties as Commanding General, U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Jackson, Fort Jackson, S.C.,” Army spokesman Harvey Perritt said in a terse statement. “He was suspended by the Commander of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Gen. Robert W. Cone, due to allegations of misconduct.” Roberts has been in command at Fort Jackson for just over a year. His removal is especially troublesome given how Fort Jackson describes itself: The Fort Jackson Team operates the preeminent training center in the Department of Defense (DoD) responsible for training, educating, and developing our military and civilian leaders to succeed in the current and future operational environments; sets the conditions for training readiness, deployment, and sustainment of all the Partners in Excellence (PiE), while providing the highest Quality of Life for our Team Members, Families, Retirees, and Veterans. The post trains 50% of the Army’s soldiers – about 36,000 – annually, 60% of its the women, and all of its drill sergeants. Roberts, former deputy commander of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, Ky., assumed command of the Army Training Center and Fort Jackson last April. He is a veteran of three tours in Iraq, the White House military office, and the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. Before assuming command of the Army Training Center, he served as chief of staff of the U.S. military office responsible for training the Iraq army. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in the Army for 28 years, and leading Soldiers and commanding units is what I enjoy doing most &#8212; working with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=121592&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Shared Mission&#8230;to End Suicide</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/21/our-shared-mission-to-end-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Van Dahlen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t know Neil Landsberg. But I know many of the fine veterans who work for and volunteer with the organization that Neil clearly loved, Team Rubicon. Neil was 34 years old when he took his life May 9. By all accounts he was a fine man who had served our country with distinction as a captain in Air Force Special Operations. Neil received the Air Force Commendation Medal, Air Force Achievement Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, and Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. According to posted information about his life, Neil completed multiple overseas combat deployments while with the Air Force, and after he came home he continued to serve his community. In addition to his work with Team Rubicon, Neil volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and at Walter Reed. I didn’t know retired Army colonel Grant Zachary either. But I do know and respect his wife, Brigadier General Marianne Watson, who serves with the Army National Guard. DOD Zachary Grant Grant was 54 years old when he took his life—also on May 9. The pictures posted online with his obituary tell the story of a loving father, husband, and family man. Grant served our country for 20 years with the Minnesota Army National Guard as a UH-1 Huey helicopter pilot, Flight Facility Commander at Holman Field, and State Aviation Officer in St. Paul. During his service he received the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, and a host of other awards. After retirement, Grant continued to serve his country in the Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Command and the Army National Guard Manpower Division. What do the lives and deaths of these two men have in common? They both chose to serve our country—and they did so honorably. They both chose to take their lives—presumably to end a level of emotional pain and suffering that few of us can imagine. They both left behind family and friends who loved and respected them—many who will suffer the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=121287&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The SEAL Sniper Killing, Revisited</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/20/the-seal-sniper-killing-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shocking and bizarre death of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle – at the hands of a fellow combat vet – in Texas last February was one of the saddest tales to come out of the post-9/11 wars on the homefront. Battleland was able to write it up for Time the next week, but there’s only so much reporting that can be done under the pressure of a weekly deadline. That’s why it’s good news that Anthony Swofford, the Marine author of Jarhead, has helped flesh out the tragedy in Death of an American Sniper. It&#8217;s a 15,000-word e-short into the killing of one of the deadliest snipers &#8212; with 160 claimed kills &#8212; in U.S. military history. Battleland conducted this email chat with him over the weekend: What is the most surprising thing you discovered in your reporting and writing of Death of an American Sniper? Byliner I came to really like Chris Kyle, a man I’d never met; a man I’d never be able to meet. In the aftermath of his death there was a lot of hyperbolic talk from both ends of the political spectrum. Of course, his pro-gun stance invited this, and he was courted by the gun lobby, celebrated, even. But this was all about the persona, not the person. I spent three months reporting and writing the piece, and when I finished, I very much missed the man. If he had this kind of power over me, a man he’d never met, I can only imagine the grief all of his friends, and especially his family, have been suffering. I also discovered that a private contracting company can be in possession of massive amounts of firepower, including two M2 Browning machine guns, and that they can store this weaponry in a downtown Dallas office building. I mention in the essay that just the sight of the M2 is menacing and sexy. It’s also a bit chilling. What did you learn about the ex-Marine named Eddie Ray Routh who allegedly killed Kyle and Kyle’s friend,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=121056&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“A Better Return on Investment”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Georgia’s Fort Stewart Army post think they do a good job. Fact is, they think their work is good enough that it qualifies for a 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Those are those annual federal-government salutes designed to recognize top-flight performance of U.S.-based organizations, named for the late Reagan Administration Department of Commerce secretary. “This program helps FS/HAAF [Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Air Field] become better stewards of the taxpayers money and provides a better return on investment,” the post says. “It is these types of award competitions and improvements to our processes that set FS/HAAF apart from the rest and have a positive impact in these times of sequestration, budget cuts, and possible Base Realignment and Closure Actions (BRAC).” And that’s why Fort Stewart paid $18,000 last week to apply for it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=121000&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Rebels Aren’t Winning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Abouzeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short message screeched over a walkie-talkie, prompting the half a dozen rebels in the room who had been lounging on flat mattresses and drinking tea to jump to their feet, grab their guns and run out of the door. It was almost 7:30 p.m. Ten men in civilian garb had just sneaked out of the Syrian army’s Zahlanee checkpoint some 500 m away from the rebel position, just across an olive grove, and were now moving toward a cave on the outskirts of the grove. The cave had been a rebel position at one point. “They told them not to be late,” the voice over the walkie-talkie said, relaying what he had heard from a transmitter set to intercept Syrian Army communications, “so they’re not defectors. They’re not trying to defect. They’re planning something, but what I don’t know.” A rebel named Ahmad picked up a BKC machine gun, while others grabbed Kalashnikov rifles. Another rebel, Abu Sammy, manned the 14.5-mm antiaircraft gun mounted on the back of a navy blue pickup truck as his colleagues in the Farouq Brigade bundled into the back. It sped a short distance down a narrow deserted path closer to the Zahlanee checkpoint, one of two key loyalist positions that protect the larger, fortified Wadi Deif military base. (The other is called the Hamidiyeh.) The base is one of the last remaining Syrian military outposts in the vast northern province of Idlib. The rebels have been trying to overrun it since at least October as they try to wrest full control of Idlib. So far, Syria’s rebel forces have not managed to gain full control of any of the country’s 14 provinces. Find out why, here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=121210&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard on the Flight Deck of the USS George H.W. Bush</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/20/overheard-on-the-flight-deck-of-the-uss-george-h-w-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOMEWHERE IN THE ATLANTIC, Friday, May 17: F-18 #1: You know, they say these things can really fly. F-18 #2: Yea…you see &#8216;em launch one a couple days ago? #1: You bet…it was awesome! [X-47B passes overhead with a roar.] #2: It even sounds like a jet! #1: It is a jet… #2: Do you think it might ever replace us? #1: No way… Pilots! Top Gun! No way! [X-47B performs its first-ever touch-and-go landing on the Bush's flight deck.] #2: Ever have one of those days when you feel like a…biplane?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=121125&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Drones</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/drones-2/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/8748968336_ac8c802f7d_b.jpg?w=240</featured_image>
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		<title>Biowelfare?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/20/biowelfare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ex-Navy secretary Richard Danzig, also an expert on bio weapons and adviser to Senator Barack Obama when the Illinois Democrat was running for President, has urged the U.S. government to spend millions stockpiling a drug to combat a virulent form of anthrax. The Los Angeles Times&#8216; David Willman reported Sunday that &#8220;Danzig did this while serving as a director of a biotech startup that won $334 million in federal contracts to supply just such a drug…By his own account, Danzig encouraged Human Genome Sciences Inc. to develop the compound, and from 2001 through 2012 he collected more than $1 million in director&#8217;s fees and other compensation from the company, records show.&#8221; Danzig told the newspaper his role at the company posed no conflict, but others disagreed. &#8220;Holy smoke,&#8221; said Dr. Philip K. Russell, a biodefense official in the George W. Bush administration, &#8220;that was a horrible conflict of interest,&#8221; You can read the full article here and make up your own mind.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=121168&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Procurement</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/procurement/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/51069265.jpg?w=240</featured_image>
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			<media:title type="html">Secretary Of The Navy The Honorable Richard</media:title>
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		<title>Tracking CINCellulite</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon has been complaining for years that the impending budget cuts – slated to return it to 2007 levels of spending – will cripple national security. Kind of hard to believe there aren’t smart reductions yet to be made after checking out this Government Accountability Office report released Wednesday. It looks at the people, both military and civilian, working for the combatant commanders-in-chief &#8212; CINCs &#8212; at the headquarters of U.S. Africa Command, U.S. European Command, U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Southern Command. The congressional watchdog agency didn’t examine the staff at U.S. Central Command, given the fact that it has been at war for more than a decade. Sure, you can wade through the my-eyes-glaze-over text, if you’re a genuine defense-spending dweeb. If you&#8217;re not, here’s the central conclusion: Data provided by the commands shows that authorized military and civilian positions increased by about 50% from fiscal years 2001 through 2012…In addition, mission and headquarters support-costs at the combatant commands more than doubled from fiscal years 2007 through 2012&#8230;DOD considers the combatant commands&#8217; requests for additional positions, but it does not periodically evaluate the commands&#8217; authorized positions to ensure they are still needed to meet the commands&#8217; assigned missions. That’s bad enough. What’s worse is what the GAO said it couldn’t detail: Data on the number of personnel performing contract services across the combatant commands and service component commands varied or was unavailable, and thus trends could not be identified. Anyway, enough verbiage. Check out the following charts from the report: The charts may be silent, but they speak volumes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=120933&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to End Sexual Abuse in the Military</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/17/how-to-end-sexual-abuse-in-the-military/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Grenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reassuring comments from President Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel aside, the Department of Defense’s approach to preventing sexual assault is doomed. It’s nice that President Obama “has your back” if you’re assaulted. It’s good that Chuck Hagel is filled with moral outrage. But no one has stepped up to what it will take to actually prevent the next 26,000 victims. I’ve read dozens of case reports of sexual assault under investigation. One that haunted me was of a woman—let’s call her Jessica—who was raped by one of her “battle buddies” while deployed in Afghanistan. She was the seventh victim of the same alleged perpetrator in 18 months. Cases like this compelled me to analyze the military’s effort to stop sexual assault. I compared it to other successful behavior-change efforts I’ve studied, ranging from stopping violence against women in South Africa, to reducing criminal recidivism in Singapore, to preventing AIDS in Thailand. I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t. The U.S. military’s effort is wanting in three significant respects: 1. Measure safety, not just assaults. Prevention won’t happen simply because enough perpetrators are publicly tried and punished. Let me be clear: it certainly matters that Jessica’s rapist is punished. But if the goal is to influence substantial reduction in assaults, military leaders must change norms, not just administer justice. Extreme acts happen more often in an environment where lesser transgressions are treated benignly. For example, when a soldier brushes up against another, makes a sexually offensive expression, or posts pornographic material, all bystanders must do to show acceptance is say nothing. While it is essential to establish world-class investigation, prosecution and punishment systems, these won’t be enough. Hagel needs to hold leaders accountable for creating a safe culture. This means that every member of the armed services must be able to answer three questions affirmatively: &#8211; If I were harassed or assaulted, I’m confident I could safely report it and that I would be treated with respect and fairness. &#8211;  Leaders in my location make it clear that they will<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=120905&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swapping Silk for Khaki: America’s First Female Soldiers</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/17/swapping-silk-for-khaki-americas-first-female-soldiers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the bumper crop of tales of sexual assault in the ranks of the U.S. military, it’s refreshing to go back in time &#8212; 71 years ago this month, to be precise &#8212; when Army created the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps amid World War II. More than 150,000 American women served in the corps during World War II, double the 75,000 serving in the service today (but not as many as the 200,000 active-duty women now in uniform in all the services). LIFE magazine, Battleland’s distant cousin, published a major piece on the WAACs in September 1942, four months after its creation: The idea behind the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps is simply this: Women can do some of the jobs that men are doing in the Army. By taking over these jobs, they can release men for active or combat duty. For instance, if too many service troops are ordered away from a post, the post commander will send in a call for some WAACs. Pretty soon a WAAC contingent — probably a company — will descend on him and then disperse about the camp to do clerical work, mess work, light transportation work, mechanics work or any kind of work which women can do as well as men. Check out some fascinating photos over at LIFE’s website, here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=120922&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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