Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be …
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U.S. Army General Facing Sex Charges Back in Court
(FORT BRAGG, N.C.) — A U.S. Army general facing sexual assault charges is due back in court for a hearing on pre-trial motions.
Tuesday’s hearing precedes a court martial for Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair now set to begin July 16 on charges that include forcible sodomy, indecent acts, violating orders and adultery.
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Fort Hood Suspect Says He Was Protecting Taliban
(FORT HOOD, Texas) — An Army psychiatrist charged with gunning down Fort Hood soldiers said Tuesday his defense would show that he was compelled to do so because deploying U.S. troops posed an imminent danger to Taliban
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Naval Academy Investigating 3 Football Players for Alleged Sexual Assault
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Naval Academy is investigating allegations that three members of its football team sexually assaulted a female midshipman at an off-campus house last year, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday, and a lawyer …
Former Navy Employee to Plead Guilty to Kickbacks
(PROVIDENCE, R.I.) — A former U.S. Navy civilian employee will change his plea to guilty and admit he orchestrated a kickback scheme in which government contractors funneled millions of dollars back to him and others.
You’re a SEAL Stranded in Hostile Territory: What’s in Your Survival Kit?
SEALs aren’t supposed to find themselves in trouble that they can’t get out of. That’s why the Navy is seeking to buy 300 new survival kits for the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, sometimes known as Navy SEAL Team …
General John Allen Salutes…His Wife
Marine General John Allen – caught up and cleared in the email scandal that brought down CIA director David Petraeus – told President Obama on Tuesday he would rather retire from the U.S. military than become Supreme Allied …
Chris Kyle, Author and Former Navy SEAL Sniper, Dies at 38
According to early reports, he was killed, along with another man, by a veteran while all three were on a recreational shooting trip
Viewpoint: Banning Women from Combat Is Unconstitutional
When Major Mary Jennings Hegar was serving as a captain in Afghanistan her aircraft was shot down by enemy fire while she and her crew were evacuating injured soldiers.
"41.67"
— Official at U.S. Central Command, calculating how many “potentially inappropriate” emails Marine General John Allen and Tampa socialite Jill Kelley exchanged each day, if there really are 30,000 pages of emails and each page is one email. “Based on 720 days," he adds. "We can’t believe it."
Big Exercise, Low Profile, In Japan-China Dispute
A Modest Proposal for Defending Japan’s Remote Islands
Afghan Dawn
U.S., allied and Afghan troops greet the new day as they prepare to conduct “village stability operations” in Farah province’s Khak-E-Safed village on Oct. 20.
