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		<title>The Unfairness of the Feres Doctrine</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/02/25/the-unfairness-of-the-feres-doctrine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Natelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the Academy Awards can be said to register the cultural pulse of the nation, America clearly retains its uneasy fascination with the politics and psychology of war. From the Paris Uprising and the U.S. Civil War, to the Iranian Revolution and the Global War on Terrorism, the ravages of armed conflict were well-represented throughout the ceremony Sunday. But for Ariana Klay, and other subjects of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Invisible War, however, the wounds of battle are unlikely to fade with the closing credits. In dismissing Klay v Panetta, a civil lawsuit that Klay brought against the Pentagon for failing to protect her and other service members from sexual violence, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has perpetuated a baffling tradition of depriving military personnel of basic civil rights. Like countless others injured due to the negligence or misconduct of their brothers-in-arms, Klay and her co-plaintiffs have been denied a remedy for the wrongs they suffered, simply because they were harmed during their time in uniform. While Judge Jackson, like other federal judges before her, based her decision on the premise that “the constitution vests the ultimate power to decide how the military should run itself in Congress,” it was in fact the judiciary that first devised the theory responsible for barring service members from recovering for non-combatant injuries, making it all the more important for Congress to restore its authority by correcting the incursion. In 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review Feres v. United States, a collection of three cases, all of which sought to hold the military accountable for acts of negligence under the Federal Tort Claims Act. While the plaintiffs were service members, the circumstances giving rise to their claims—a building fire caused by a defective heater, and two instances of botched surgical procedures—bore no relationship to actual military duties, and were effectively interchangeable with those yielding recovery for countless civilians. As such, they stood in stark contrast to the claims expressly barred by the Act: those “arising out of the combatant activities of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=108309&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Three Minutes Out&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Major Nathan Strohm, a logistician, has deployed four times in support of the global war on terror: to Uzbekistan for most of 2003, to Iraq for most of 2005, and twice to Afghanistan – first from February 2007 to April 2008 with the 82nd Airborne Division, and then for a second time with the 82nd from August 2009 to August 2010. In this April interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he discusses his toughest day on his most recent deployment, where he served as a forward support company commander for 4th Brigade, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Excerpts: You come in and it&#8217;s like, &#8220;Wow! We&#8217;ve been into Afghanistan for seven and eight years and this is all that has been done.&#8221;… They knew all of the areas that were of concern but as is the case in Afghanistan, we don&#8217;t know if this was actually being placed that day, or two or three days earlier when they had taken this route the last time, or if it had been there the whole time and it had just gotten uncovered enough under the sand that the IED was actually able to be executed. They ran over the backside of a basically where a wadis went into a canal, that type of thing, on the backside of that as you are kind of going down into the canal piece itself. There was a pressure-plate IED. The lead vehicle was struck. It was an M1151 because we didn&#8217;t have enough armored vehicles to have everybody have an Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles or an military All-Terrain Vehicle (MATV), which is a much safer vehicle with a &#8216;V’&#8217; hull. The squad leader was the vehicle truck commander for that one. Basically the front half all the way to his seat and just between where the front door and back door was on his side, that whole front quarter of the HMMWV was blown completely off. He was basically killed instantly but he died of wounds on the scene.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=90463&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marksmanship, NoKo Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A South Korean newspaper reports Thursday that the Pyongyang government executed several North Korean senior officers by firing squad earlier this year for &#8220;drinking liquor during the mourning period [following the death of leader Kim Jong-il] or being involved in sex scandals.&#8221; Note that &#8220;or.&#8221; Apparently, alcohol and adultery aren’t a couple in North Korea.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=90359&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Korea</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/korea-2/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Sky King</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/23/sky-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel Dan Hampton flew nearly 4,000 hours – including 726 in combat – in an F-16 during his 20 years in the Air Force. (Battleland has flown about, um, one, including none in combat. Final brave words as we hurtled down the runway: &#8220;Get us back safely, and there&#8217;s a cold case of Heineken in the trunk of my rental car.&#8221;) Hampton, who retired in 2006, has written about the experience in Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat. The Air Force wanted to name its F-16 fighter the Falcon 30 years ago, but that name was already taken by a French business jet. Zut alors! So the service ended up calling it the Fighting Falcon (Department of Redundancy Department), which pilots thought was so dumb they&#8217;ve embraced Viper instead. More than 4,500 Vipers have been built. Hampton flew one tricked out as a radar-killing Wild Weasel, flying against enemy surface-to-air missile sites in the opening hours of air campaigns, to clear the way for others to follow. He also picked up four Distinguished Flying Crosses along the way. &#8220;Two Dogs&#8221; Hampton spoke with Battleland in an email interview recently. Why did you write Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat? I wanted people to get a glimpse into, and a more in depth appreciation of, a fighter pilot&#8217;s life. There&#8217;s lots of interest in military aviation and I wanted folks to see a bit of it. Maybe inspire a few younger people. Tell us about your most memorable moment in the cockpit? Was that also the scariest? If not, tell us about both. The most memorable moment was at the end of the last war [in Iraq]. We had made it home and were all landing amidst the crowds &#8212; waving flags, banners etc. As I shut down the engine and opened the canopy, I got a big breath of air &#8212; smelled like cut grass &#8212; and could hear the people cheering. It was a nice way to come back. The scariest moment was probably discovering<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=90085&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Treating PTSD and TBI…Ethically</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/23/treating-ptsd-and-tbiethically/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elspeth Cameron Ritchie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of posts on the ethical issues associated with treating post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. These are the two so-called &#8220;signature wounds&#8221; of our post 9/11 wars. Unlike physical trauma, they can take years to surface. They&#8217;re also not as easy to diagnose as typical war wounds. Treating them is going to become a bigger challenge as the wars wind down and the 2.5 million young men and women who served in them come home. By ethical issues, I mean areas where there are no clear right and wrong answers. There are often competing priorities, depending on whose viewpoint you look through. By definition, military medical personnel serve two—or more—masters: &#8211; There is the care of the service member. &#8211; There are the needs of the military. &#8211; There are the needs of the United States, including national security, the Congress and the taxpayer. And physicians have the Hippocratic oath. Medical ethics normally focus on four principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence and non-maleficence. In simple terms, they mean: the right of the individual to make his or her own decisions; equal resources for all; do good for your patient; and do no harm. These same principles should be applied to military medical ethics. Tomes have been devoted to discussion these principles, and it is perhaps dangerous to try develop a reasoned discussion in a post, or a series of posts. But although military physicians discuss these topics constantly, there is less discussion in the public space. There are at least four ethical areas I would like to ponder: &#8211; Whether to maintain someone in the battlefield or return them home. &#8211; Whether to retain a service member on duty in the military, vs. recommending a medical board (medical discharge). &#8211; Confidentiality, and/or what command needs to know. &#8211; Disability and compensation issues, if diagnosed with PTSD. These are all highly-charged issues. But I think they need an open, national discussion. I hope to do that here, in the next few posts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=90123&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenges of Raising Military Kids</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/22/the-challenges-of-raising-military-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maryann Makekau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one-time military mom enjoyed last week&#8217;s Battleland Q&#38;A with the authors of a new series of books on educating troops&#8217; children. Military children have always had to deal with the stressors of being the new kid on the block. It’s refreshing to see recognition for the affect that has had on their lives. Changing schools multiple times over, and navigating gains and losses that are inherent of military life, requires exceptional sacrifice. For more than a decade, military children have also resiliently steered their way through war’s fallout. Whether we’re talking about back-to-back deployments and reintegration, learning to cope with an injured parent or losing a parent in combat—the impact on them has sometimes been forgotten. Our nation’s military children don’t stand out the way their parent does in uniform. Yet they are serving, too. As I read this article, I celebrated the fact that creative, practical tools and ideas are now being put into place for “building better schools for our troops’ kids.” At the same time, I was saddened to think that it has taken an 11-year war to spotlight the seriousness of the gap between society and our military &#8212; perhaps even longer if we reflect honestly on other wartimes. I also found myself recollecting the day that my daughter climbed her favorite tree and refused to come down. She adamantly opposed us making her leave the place she called home, at just eight years of age. That day marked our children’s third military move. Some years later, when my husband retired after 28 years of service, our kids had weathered six military moves prior to age eighteen, and attended eight different schools. To some, it might seem like military children should be adept at moving and handling deployments. The more they do it, the better they get at it, right? The familiarity of moving does provide strength and resilience. Yet, each move presents its own set of challenges, depending on a child’s age, emotional maturity and abilities. I’ve had perplexed mothers approach me and say,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89935&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making All Our Troops Bulletproof</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/22/making-all-our-troops-bulletproof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rep. Niki Tsongas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shoot, move, communicate. This was the clear, succinct analysis given by an Army major when asked to describe the key components of a military mission. In three words, the major illustrated the reality of modern war theatres &#8212; one in which a soldier’s safety and success relies as much on mobility as it does on strength. Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past, due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats. In places like Afghanistan, the line is barely visible at all. Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not. It is surprising then that one of a soldier’s most basic and necessary pieces of equipment – body armor – can sometimes work in direct contradiction to that basic need. Several years ago during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, I asked a young sergeant if he were ever tempted to take off his protective gear. He hesitated and glanced sheepishly at the general sitting nearby before giving a confident reply: “Yes, ma’am.” He explained the armor was cumbersome, heavy and that sometimes it was just easier to maneuver without it. A visit to Afghanistan amplified the sergeant’s concerns. There, I met with a colonel who heaved off his armor and, rubbing his sore knees, spoke of the burden the gear’s weight put on his joints. Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan are outfitted with body armor that weighs as much as 40 pounds. When combined with the gear that troops must carry in the field, the total weight our soldiers carry can exceed 120 pounds. It can lead to long term muscular skeletal injuries and an elevated risk that armor may be removed in the field. Lightened body armor, which the military has made progress on, would mean increased safety and reduced risk for soldiers like the sergeant and the colonel. But for the major, the task of shoot, move, communicate is made even more difficult by the fact that the armor does not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89912&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Converting the Taliban</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/19/converting-the-taliban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air Force Major Matthew Brown served in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, as part of the Afghanistan-Pakistan (AFPAK) Hands counter-insurgency program during the final eight months of 2011. A one-time B-1 pilot, his main mission was to turn Taliban fighters into law-abiding Afghan citizens.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89728&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building Better Schools for Troops&#8217; Kids</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/18/building-better-schools-for-troops-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, the Military Child Educational Coalition and Joining Forces, a campaign to help veterans and their families started by First Lady Michele Obama and Jill Biden, have partnered to create Operation Educate the Educators.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89470&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Launch Party</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/17/launch-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This simulated war thing is catching on. For the past 20 years, the U.S. hasn't exploded a single atomic warhead to see if the stockpile remains potent.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89315&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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